Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sketch briefly the legal definition of casual working and go on to consider the special features of certain business operations within the hotels and catering industry which explain why casual workers are to be found there . |
| 2 | The liberal compromises : " Let's prune , so that we lose neither the old trunk nor the new branches " . |
| 3 | We got out the 300mm-long lens . |
| 4 | ( TIM ) Hello there … they all get a look in tonight … as we round up the local sport … on the start line ready to go first is the football parade |
| 5 | English applicants were twice as likely to be selected , and this difference would probably have been greater had we carried out the full study and been able to include posts in teaching hospitals . |
| 6 | We report here the concurrent observation of processes ( 1 ) -(6) , which we follow by monitoring ozone and peroxide concentrations in surface air . |
| 7 | We rose late the next morning . |
| 8 | We rose early the next morning awoken by the clanging of the abbey bells . |
| 9 | We rose early the next morning . |
| 10 | We replace however the equal division assumption by that of primogeniture , with estates being passed on intact to the eldest son ( a model first analysed in Stiglitz , 1969a ) . |
| 11 | Umpteen four-bedroomed houses later , we were wondering if it really was the right thing to do : every time we found just the right place , the surveyor 's report showed movement of the north wall , or some other equally expensive-to-repair problem . |
| 12 | We wandered up the darkened staircase back to our chamber . |
| 13 | ‘ Of course , we have n't time to give it more than a catlick , ’ she came to realize as we staggered up the grand flight of stairs to the first floor . |
| 14 | Because of our late start and leisurely progress , the light is thickening as we stumble along the forgotten stretch of ridge between Bwlch Ciliau . |
| 15 | Immediately below the photograph , we show schematically the corresponding array of cones : long- , middle- and short-wave cones are represented by red , green and blue discs , respectively . |
| 16 | We woke early the next morning . |
| 17 | Upstairs in the elegant dining room we noticed again the superb position of the hotel , as our table overlooked the marketplace below . |
| 18 | Thomas enthused : ‘ It 's quite a feat to beat Liverpool on a normal outing , but the side we put out the other night was straight from the creche . |
| 19 | Finally his conscience gets the better of him and we break out the large billy from his sledge and light another fire in the lea of a sledge . |
| 20 | We came out the other side of it with a temporary chauffeur , a good profit and a really first-rate new name : that of Hamilton de Souza . |
| 21 | Sick of talk , we cycled down the green tunnel |
| 22 | As we noted earlier the Conservative Government has followed two major policies in an attempt to deal with this penal crisis : firstly , simply to build more prisons ; and secondly , to reduce the numbers receiving custodial sentences . |
| 23 | If to that we add both the structured dependency which was earlier described , in which social policies and practices discriminate against them in matters crucial to their well-being ( such as housing , income and transport ) , and the personal indignities of physical and social dependence , we must surely put at the top of our agenda for care a determination to assess realistically , yet sensitively , what is the best balance that can be achieved in the present circumstances of that old person . |
| 24 | We describe here the stable transformation of Trypanosoma brucei using a new selectable marker for kinetoplastid protozoa , the Sh ble , or phleomycin , resistance gene . |
| 25 | For external comparison , we give in the right hand column of the table , a comparable figure ( where available ) derived from a fairly representative sample of modern English . |
| 26 | Such knowledge will be the basis of the advice we give in the next chapter for promoting adjustment after a time-zone transition . |
| 27 | Here we give only the first part of Ohmann 's illustration : [ 8 ] the desk and the shelf above it on which rested the ledgers in which McCaslin recorded the slow outward trickle of food and supplies and equipment which returned each fall as cotton made and ginned and sold … |
| 28 | But he continued : ‘ Although we represent the Israeli point of view , we give out the whole picture . |
| 29 | In the next chapter we examine why the public sector may wish to produce private goods . |
| 30 | We run down the other end and have a go at Sunderland fans … and like against Villa when they all got pushed onto the pitch … we 're all in there … |