Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The superintendent of police in my area has told me that , were we to round up about 150 people in the county of Cleveland , it would eradicate about 80 per cent . |
| 2 | It must relate to my first sight of my mother 's genitals — but not the last — for we lived in just one room . |
| 3 | If it is stimulated every time we sit down then tremendous tensions will build up over the years ; these will give rise to neck and back problems , and will also be responsible for many headaches and migraines . |
| 4 | We used up about six towels , and took ages , each of us , to scrub the bath afterwards . |
| 5 | In our previous ‘ From Rock to Jazz ’ column , we found out how common notes can be used to create melodic lines which outline different chords , by suggestion , and connect different chords , by intervallic interchange . |
| 6 | We 're very pleased , we put in about 18 months really hard work on this , we 've er done our development funding , we 've put in our plan which is said to be one of the best plans in the country , we worked very hard , we 're very pleased . |
| 7 | The following evening , after a slogging nine-hour march over volcanic hills that threw up waves of heat , making me irritable and all of us tired and thirsty , we toiled up yet another rise and suddenly saw Lake Hertale below us . |
| 8 | But I am because we dominated in so many respects — especially at the line-out — and had enough ball to have won . |
| 9 | We keep in fairly close touch with Ruth , the eldest child , who lives in Tunbridge Wells , but John , the baby born in Turvey , corresponds with nobody . |
| 10 | We took on here last March . |
| 11 | We stopped twice at primitive tea-houses , the only buildings we saw in over eighty miles of desert . |
| 12 | And we 're getting three squares to the centimetre so we go up there two centimetres and we get the so if we go up every two squares |
| 13 | If we go back about two years , a little bit more than two years now , we sat down and considered those areas which were most important to us in developing a new accounting package . |
| 14 | There was an old shooting range behind the farmhouse and we went up there one morning to put into practice all that we had learnt about explosives . |
| 15 | We were surprised to see this fantastic marble everywhere — on the table tops , on the benches , on the counters — but when we went back there three years later the place was a total mess . |
| 16 | As he opened the post-mortem on England 's defeat , Fletcher said : ‘ We play on too bland pitches at home . |
| 17 | we go what we do down there this year . |
| 18 | Us two we pull in totally different directions but we meet in the middle . |
| 19 | Us two we pull in totally different directions but we meet in the middle . |
| 20 | Exercise is n't a craze we take up seriously one day and dismiss as ‘ not for me ’ two weeks later because we 've overdone it . |
| 21 | ‘ We take on about 15 girls every year , but very few come through the door . |
| 22 | Paolozzi anticipates not only the rapid movements of our eyes , but also our travelling along in a car , as we take in only those parts that are most significant — head , hands and feet . |
| 23 | ‘ We parted on rather poor terms , ’ she said lightly . |
| 24 | You walk down this sort of , you go through some woods and this is how we ended up where these geese |
| 25 | We ended up almost two hours late . |
| 26 | Altogether on the trip we clocked up over 1800 miles . |
| 27 | We sat up late that night and other nights that hot summer in Al Ain , and the strain of Ramadan soon began to show in my young Sheikh 's face . |