Example sentences of "we [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , I refused Toby 's offer of a drink , and we agreed to sleep on the problem and talk again sometime during the following day . |
| 2 | The standards we bring to bear in the act of appraisal have their purchase precisely because the act , or artefact , or creation , or social institution is not fixed , but has a degree of mutability about it . |
| 3 | Data-gathering should only be undertaken if we intend to act upon the information which has been accumulated . |
| 4 | We shall be writing to you around August 1989 to check that the information that we intend to put onto the Register about you is correct . |
| 5 | Against these dramatic changes , we intend to remain at the centre as an effective resource for the voluntary sector , and an important bridge between the sector and others . |
| 6 | We tend to refer to the World Church as something outside our particular constituency and we must n't forget that we must own the World Church . |
| 7 | In Britain ( with all too few honourable exceptions ) we tend to accept as the norm , prefab huts equipped with smelly loos , worn carpets or line , tatty curtains and torn seat cushions . |
| 8 | We tend to play at the point of the evening when the temperature drops , so I tune up just before Bryan goes on and then after three or four songs they 're all sharp , because the temperature has dropped . |
| 9 | We tend to work from the Centre in the friendly critic role . |
| 10 | There are still areas where we tend to look at the other as ‘ the resident expert ’ , or at least more expert than we consider ourself to be . |
| 11 | she said what , what agenda do you want , so I said just the same and so she put the same venue , we tend to alter at the meeting she said |
| 12 | The second point er chairman is that one particular solution adopted by a couple of County Councils the one in particular has been to have a local act requiring registration of car boot sales which gives enforcement officers a chance to know they 're going to happen and it also requires display of names and addresses not suggesting it is not entirely suggest that is here but late last night we simply felt we want to talk about the possibility of a framework enabling this legislation which will allow that to happen on national basis oh , as a way of controlling this , this sort of activity . |
| 13 | In the meantime I have enclosed a statement which we helped to prepare in the run up to the Earth Summit . |
| 14 | We forget to listen to the tone and the expression which are used , and these are vital because we tend to use words in a fraudulent manner . |
| 15 | Er , yes in the studies in nineteen ninety two er Eurofighter suggested that there could be reductions in the holdings of spares , rolled equipment and support items as a result of the more accurate forecasting which we expect to emerge from the logistics support analysis . |
| 16 | This terrible matter has brought shame on Leicestershire , and we expect to get to the heart of how it could have gone on for so long , while apparently nobody did anything about it . |
| 17 | We , also , have to be able to goto Blackburn and come away with a result if we expect to advance in the Cup any further than the 4th round . |
| 18 | We propose to remain within the centre of the Community , framing the future of the Community in the interests of the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe . |
| 19 | In this chapter we propose to deal with the arrangement of passages for various combinations of woodwind and horns , but before doing this we will deal with the question of laying out full chords for the wind . |
| 20 | We want to go to the beach . ’ |
| 21 | General Secretary , you may be ready to dive in now , but we but we want to wait till the time is right . |
| 22 | Finally in this chapter we want to return to the source of all social science data , and the ultimate object of social scientific investigation , namely the members of society . |
| 23 | A horse 's degree of tolerance , or passivity , as opposed to impatience and irritability , will be very important in relation to what we want to do with the horse . |
| 24 | Anything else Now , just before we all er disappear , can I just quickly check what we want to do about the departure . |
| 25 | We must move on , because we 've got to have a commercial break , and then we want to check on the traffic . |
| 26 | We want to stay in the area as we both like walking , especially in the Dales , ’ said Audrey . |
| 27 | But this particular case Mr Deputy Speaker what we want to know from the minister is on these new boundaries what do we actually have to do ? |
| 28 | This is in addition to the letter written to the two of you and Tim , which you will recognize as being a step on the way to telling Tim that we want to reprogram from the top . |
| 29 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 30 | But we have to have some spare capacity in case we want to run for the bus or climb Everest ( where the air is less oxygen-rich ) . |