Example sentences of "we [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing is , we met through the Lonely Hearts ads and I 'm afraid my friends will laugh at me when they find out . |
| 2 | The weather is glorious , so we trot through the suburban roads and leafy lanes , and find a hitherto undiscovered park . |
| 3 | Here we concentrate on the 55 miles which pass through Kent . |
| 4 | We can probably be most influential if we concentrate on the following issues : |
| 5 | We sit on the dead leaves at the foot of the vent , backs against the stone . |
| 6 | We sit in the deep armchairs , both brooding on private thoughts . |
| 7 | Do we think of the young poets with the young literary man ? |
| 8 | Touching : We all know when something is so hot that it burns our fingers or so sharp that it hurts to touch it — but how much do we think about the other things we touch ? |
| 9 | We dropped the others off , and now the big shops would be left behind as we waded through the gloomy streets of Fulham . |
| 10 | We drew from the four books ( two double volumes ) and took the occasional snippet from our fellow adaptors . |
| 11 | And er that was with a great deal of persuasion er on the shop steward 's part and argument with the management , and pushing the management to introduce it , er that we moved into the fitting departments . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , as the table shows , we rank among the safest countries in the world . |
| 13 | ‘ A lot of the lead-based paints we used in the old days would n't be permitted today , ’ he pointed out . |
| 14 | One or two of the old films are now on CD video because they are important documents of certain artists , but the way we are filming and editing the films I am now making is completely different We have learnt a very great deal in these years and so we forget about the older films just as you would n't dream of driving around in a thirty-year-old car . |
| 15 | What do we feel when we describe to each other our LP collections of sixteen years ago , when we linger on the morose pleasures of vodka and lime , inept discos , French kissing , Watney 's Party-Seven beer , cheesecloth shirts , Budgie jackets , very long floral skirts , knee-length boots with zips in the side , army greatcoats , Mateus Rosé , and tank tops … |
| 16 | We 're laughing and panting as we clamber through the sucking stones . |
| 17 | Our return DMU entering the station as we disembarked with the comfortable words from our guard — ‘ No hurry , now — it has to wait for me ! ’ |
| 18 | Irena took an unofficial day off work and we wandered through the damp streets while she told me about being a student at Palacky University in 1968 ( and what happened afterwards : ‘ It is strange how the history books of a country can change , is n't it ? ’ ) . |
| 19 | These fears may be greater , for example , than those which we attach to the actual penalties imposed by the law — hence the use , and fear , of publicity in relation to criminal offences . |
| 20 | It calls for the qualities of a fighter , for only with those qualities can we win through the constant traps and barriers laid by the forces that would block our path and drag us down . |
| 21 | We strolled through the little streets . |
| 22 | We walk between the towering plants . |
| 23 | We naturally renewed our invitation as soon as we learnt of the new arrangements proposed by the English Club , and he wrote to me on 25 November 1935 on Criterion writing paper : |
| 24 | But it needs to be borne in mind , before we embark on the various ways of doing this , that it is by no means a universally accepted need nor is it that every bereaved person with whom we come in contact will need ‘ help ’ . |
| 25 | THERE was not another house to be seen from the Boggle Hole hostel on the North Yorkshire coast , as we woke to the gentle sounds of the warden reciting Buddhist mantras , and waves lapping the sands . |
| 26 | Pausanias does not consider the authorship of the metopes , but the difference of approach we noticed between the two groups corresponds so exactly to the difference between the gables that we can safely postulate one designer for the sculptures at each end of the building ; but can it be one man who designed both ? |
| 27 | We worry about the rotten lives of those pigs , which are among the most intelligent and sensitive of animals . |
| 28 | If we speak of the stylistic values of a non-literary text , we are interested in the way in which linguistic choices are adapted to communicative function — to such functions as newspaper reporting , advertising , scientific exposition . |
| 29 | Even if we accept , as we should , that Thucydides is right about the ‘ truest cause ’ ( and in the passage last quoted he comes near to running together true cause and alleged reasons , so we should not try to separate them too sharply ) , there is still a major problem : what weight should we give to the various instances of encroachment ? |
| 30 | We put in the wrong substances , we overload it and mistreat it and yet we still expect it to work efficiently and well , day in and day out , for the whole of our life . |