Example sentences of "we [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | As we leave the womb , enter the world and grow , and get over the initial wonder of walking , we change our pre-natal wheelchair for a series of substitute wheelchairs — bicycles , motor-cycles , cars , taxis , buses , trains , aeroplanes — and chairs ( in houses , schools , offices ; anywhere where people gather and sit ) . |
2 | Legs rose and fell as we made our undulatory way like a giant centipede . |
3 | We made our usual visit to Lanzarote in 1988 , but the place had changed . |
4 | I sighed heavily as I looked first at one and then at the other while we made our slow way down the main street , past Woolworth and the traffic lights . |
5 | ‘ In addition , we shipped more than 13,000 of our low-cost MicroSparc-based desktop workstations , and we made our initial shipments of the new Sparccenter 2000 enterprise server products . |
6 | We knew in 1985 that when we made our preliminary announcement of our results for the previous financial year that we would become technically insolvent . |
7 | On Saturday 4th September 1993 we make our annual gesture of support for the Central Wales Line . |
8 | We rank ourselves amongst our peers very early on , so far as our physical attractiveness is concerned : we make our sexual moves within the group appropriate to our vision of ourselves . |
9 | I agree that as we unfold our positive policies over the next few weeks , and as the electorate sees more and more of what Labour is offering — or not offering — what my hon. Friend has suggested will come about . |
10 | It was in Geo-related work that we experienced our greatest problems during the year , leading to the closure of our Scottish and Billingham offices , and the reduction of Warrington from two offices to one . |
11 | In doing so , we confine our influencing ability to certain people and circumstances . |
12 | My right hon. Friend referred to the Chancellor 's views but , when we asked him that question in the Select Committee , it became clear that he was not so much against it in principle as uncertain in his own mind what he should do . |
13 | Now we introduce our second ingredient into the argument . |
14 | For , as Neil Bartlett points out , that nice little word was corrupted long before we got our sticky fingers on it . |
15 | We had to go ten years before we got our first increment of 2/6d . |
16 | Richard Barker said that Waterstones was pleased with the popularity of its own-brand vouchers : ‘ We relaunched our own vouchers in 1992 , and they sold very well . |
17 | He took us to the pictures sometimes and we shared his intimate refuge from Mum . |
18 | We shouted our biological achievements at each other as if nothing else mattered . |
19 | Third , as we monitored our representative sample of schools over a three year period , we could perceive some of them undergoing a process of structural transition , shifting away from the simple two-tier model towards departmentalism and/or a matrix structure . |
20 | We base our gravest decisions on a complex system of conceptions , most of which presuppose the confidence that we will not be betrayed . |
21 | An off night , I assured him , as we re-traced our twenty-mile drive to Palm Beach , where Robin wrapped himself in a blanket in front of the TV , soothing his cold turkey by watching videos of the local comedians , while I made a mental note to move my life and family to a flat above 42nd Street . |
22 | How do we translate our two-dimensional maps into three-dimensional drama space ? |
23 | Er , we swopped our sharing expense on the er , Sp Spanish financial daily er , with cash for a twenty five percent stake in the Group and er , one of the things this er , does is to give us a stake in , in Marca , which is the second biggest newspaper in Spain and incidentally has the same social and economic profile as El , The Times of Spain er , and it 's a sport paper which sells seven days a week , two hundred and thirty four thousand circulation and its nearer , nearest competitor sells one fifty thousand . |
24 | Perhaps it 's time we visited our noble Prince of Wales and the Lord Gaveston at Woodstock . ’ |
25 | We fixed our first session for the following week , and with a little planning there could be a further session before I went back to Bristol for my first day return since being a resident . |
26 | 18 LATE NEWS You will be sorry to hear that 's husband died suddenly at home after many years of ill-health and we send our heartfelt sympathy to and her family . |
27 | ‘ We send our little bastards to Cranborne — why should n't we take their money ? ’ |
28 | ‘ We want their first performance to be a real knock-out , ’ Jaffray says . |
29 | We want our own money for the housework we do . |
30 | Because we want your actual figures in there , and just see the whole thing explode and come to life . |