Example sentences of "we [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We agreed to do it this way , do you remember ? " |
| 2 | The latest audience research indicates that our audience is still growing and we intend to keep it that way . ’ |
| 3 | We got to buy you new shoes again and God Almighty knows where we can find the money . ’ |
| 4 | One day last week we 'ad to get us own lunch , me young See-all-hear-all-say-nowt upstairs , and then I had to bellow to get him down t'elp or I 'd 'ave been stuck 'ere in this chair wi'out a sup or bite from dawn to dusk and beyond . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm happy that she seems to be leading a normal life and we want to keep it that way . ’ |
| 6 | Oh if you 're silly with that the pieces will be missing by the time we want to play it next time . |
| 7 | We hope to teach you that religion , in whatever form , affects our behaviour and how we organise our lives . |
| 8 | We hated to give them any encouragement but something might come of his uncle , if he existed . |
| 9 | And there 's always the informality about these course , we 're all addressed on christian name terms , all speakers prefer it that way and of course we like to address you christian name terms when we know you . |
| 10 | We decided to send you this newsletter as we now know what the White Paper on local government reform says . |
| 11 | have n't got any staff to do it this , we managed to do it last year . |
| 12 | We try to keep it low temperature . |
| 13 | We aim to keep it that way . |
| 14 | If we humanize the cat to the extent where we start to give it human medication , we may be hurting it when we are trying to be kind . |
| 15 | People choose to keep their yachts on the Hamble , probably because it is the pre-eminent yachting river in the country and we wish to keep it that way . |
| 16 | 6 League Games have been played as to date ( 22.06.93 ) , with 1 draw , 2 wins and 3 losses ( we have to give them some sort of chance before we give them a good thrashing ) . |
| 17 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 18 | We plan to keep it that way . |
| 19 | ‘ We need to ask you some questions , ’ he said . |
| 20 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |