Example sentences of "we [verb] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rippled on the yellow sheet , the counterpane — and us — long gone . |
| 2 | " We lived on the top floor of number eighty-two , Tyrone Street , Lower . " |
| 3 | Er hundred and forty pound for the coach to Yorkshire which we got on the other side , a hundred and six pound back so the club er sponsored that , a hundred and thirty four pound , and thirty four pound . |
| 4 | For now , we concentrate on the real sector of the economy ( that is , the markets for goods and services and for labour ) . |
| 5 | Hence we concentrate on the user-catalogue interaction and on the interactive dialogue in particular with user and catalogue system inputs having equal importance . |
| 6 | All of our businesses have maintained or improved their market shares as managers we concentrate on the full year rather on either half and because of our seasonal bias er , those of you who 've been , er , to our interim presentations before er , will remember that without fail I tell you our results at the half-way stage are not a clear guide to the outcome of the year as a whole . |
| 7 | These are more complicated , and to illustrate the analysis we concentrate on the simplified case where ( i.e. , bequests are not influenced by future earning capacity ) and ( i.e. , N represents ‘ raw ’ earning capacity , and there is no influence via parental wealth ) . |
| 8 | This way , if base rate goes down we gain on the floating rate — if base rate goes up , we 're protected on the fixed half . ’ |
| 9 | Two years ago we reported on the seismic survey work being carried out in the Solent to determine if oil drilling there would be profitable . |
| 10 | Here , we report on the combined use of preparative pulsed-field gel electrophoresis ( PFGE ) and interspersed repetitive sequence ( IRS ) polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) amplification to isolate two DNA markers from a 660 kb Sfi I fragment that contains locus DXS14 and maps to a region between disease-specific incontinentia pigmenti type 1 ( IP1 ) chromosome translocation breakpoints ( 1 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ But we do have the buckle we found on the icy moat , and I know who it belongs to . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Nothing belonging to your friend Willard matches up with the fibres we found on the dead girl . ’ |
| 13 | Before reaching the town of Rock the path runs through the only sand dunes that we encountered on the whole walk . |
| 14 | We focus on the International Characin Association . |
| 15 | For simplicity we focus on the male line ; i.e. , we do not allow for the fact that , as the model stands , women have neither wealth nor income . |
| 16 | Having said that , I am of course aware with more humility that ultimately we depend on the professional judgement , so generously given , of Mrs McNaughtan . |
| 17 | Erm before we embark on the continued discussion on H two er and we are prepared to look at erm the the which says should the party include specific plans on location of the new settlement . |
| 18 | We parked on the opposite side of the street from the Regal Arms . |
| 19 | ‘ I think it might even be further away than we came on the Long Drive , ’ said Masklin quietly . |
| 20 | Did I tell me when we got up to erm Newcastle we turned on the local news , they 'd had five inches of rain which is a winter 's rain in four days . |
| 21 | How far have we got on the solar system Josephine ? |
| 22 | If we look on the black side and assume that the remaining 24 readers who did not reply had regained their weight , it still left over two-thirds who had maintained their lost weight . |
| 23 | The point I am making now is that , even if we look on the dark side and assume that individual man is fundamentally selfish , our conscious foresight — our capacity to simulate the future in imagination — could save us from the worst selfish excesses of the blind replicators . |
| 24 | So they actually bench marked the maintenance phase of the project and found this approach to be three hundred percent more productive than the approach we showed on the previous slide . |
| 25 | In Spain we drive on the other side . ’ |
| 26 | Next , we worked on the automatic parsing of the LOB Corpus , and on the improvement of the automatic tagging system . |
| 27 | Instead of operating with a deflated matrix , we operate on the original matrix A ( or a part of it ) with a column vector from which all contributions from x1 have been " swept " away . |
| 28 | Eventually we all agreed we wanted this fierce bark that was both harsh and metallic , after which it was just a case of refining it down until we settled on the precise tone we ended up using . |
| 29 | On our way we called on the established church minister , who had been the means of our coming to the Island , and with whom we had special business , and were immensely tickled to find that he had actually fled ! |
| 30 | Erm , I really feel that this consultation is coming more than a too late because we started on the slippery slope when the consortium was er first dreamed of o , you know about a year ago and set up in April and that really this is the sort of the inexorable next move , and this consultation is far far too late ! |