Example sentences of "we [adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows that ‘ those sensations must be all that we can , at bottom , mean by their attributes ; and the distinction which we verbally make between the properties of things and the sensations we receive from them , must originate in the convenience of discourse rather than in the nature of what is signified by the terms ’ . |
| 2 | We duly wrote to the CAA , asking them to confirm or deny this practice . |
| 3 | The suggested the distinctive Volvo 460 , which we duly put to the test . |
| 4 | What restrictions did we additionally place on the articles ? |
| 5 | We eventually pull into the garage forecourt . |
| 6 | The call was reflected in the name we eventually chose for the church : Cranham Community Church . |
| 7 | In short , whereas there is not the possibility of using an argument from analogy to answer factual questions about time on the Sun , there is the possibility when it comes to people 's feelings , and so , being predisposed by the second reason to think that there is some sort of connection between moaning and the pain-language , we naturally fall into the trap of confusing valid fact-establishing arguments from analogy with invalid meaning-establishing ones , and produce the well-known argument that I am , in general , justified in applying ‘ mental ’ language to other people by the fact that they behave as I do when I 'm in a certain state of mind . |
| 8 | If we do n't , then we merely surrender to the history of the world and to someone else 's truth . |
| 9 | So , still roped from the crevasse fields , we gingerly crawled to the top . |
| 10 | Lovely steady Welsh stage manager , John Ormerod , on ‘ the book ’ … we gingerly start from the top . |
| 11 | Firstly , we only know of the existence of these structures because of the waterlogged nature of the peat in which they are found , since without such conditions they would have rotted away and disappeared . |
| 12 | We only got off the unit for exercise about twice a week . |
| 13 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 14 | That we only lay on the ground and kissed . |
| 15 | Pub landlord Nigel Moxham said : ‘ We only realised after the race that Gaby had been saved by the boat we paid for . ’ |
| 16 | We only go to the pictures but there 's a scene to face every time when she goes home . |
| 17 | But I mean if we only had like the writing paper and the envelopes and re-use labels , small items of stationery |
| 18 | Are we only born of the flesh or are we born of the spirit ? |
| 19 | We only broke for the night on the promise of a further meeting next day together with social security officials . |
| 20 | No we only start from the Grand Place and then we sit on the there 's a big escarpment on the and then we sit there |
| 21 | We only deal through the trade by virtue of the fact that the vehicles are then covered under the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 22 | ‘ We only stayed on the beach for a couple of hours or so , and there was a breeze . ’ |
| 23 | Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs . |
| 24 | We only play during the months of August to May . |
| 25 | ‘ We only work to the laws which are enforced and are made by Parliament . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Hey , we better go in the saloon , leetle dog . |
| 27 | Cos we just went onto the front |
| 28 | Yes , we just went round the houses and we said to the people , you know , why we was getting nicked , and they just signed their names . |
| 29 | It was blow-out , on the driver 's side , and erm , well we just lost it , the wheel was snatched out of his hand when the tyre went and the next thing we just slammed into the barrier and then got catapulted into a concrete wall , |
| 30 | On the other hand there are times when the difficulties appear too great and we just throw in the towel . |