Example sentences of "we [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If we are called out to a bonfire which potentially could cause damage , it is our responsibility to put it out . |
| 3 | ‘ We are fed up with a distant bureaucracy telling us what to do with our bikes . |
| 4 | As a world-wide Church we are sent out into the whole world — we are not just a localised unit of believers . |
| 5 | And we are swallowed up from the world , carried in this room to a glade of an enchanted forest , magnificent and unbounded , where stand groves of pine and walnut and chestnut . |
| 6 | ‘ If we are to go out of the Cup then let it be to a side packed with international stars . |
| 7 | But we accept that there is not a customer for this work and we are getting on with the job of ensuring that the business as a whole continues to develop positively . |
| 8 | To answer this question we are led back to the idea of big gassy planets like Jupiter spitting out small rocky ones like Venus , which then play a sort of cosmic billiards before settling down . |
| 9 | PLAYER : Well , it 's a device , really — it makes the action that follows more or less comprehensible ; you understand , we are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 11 | We are moving on with the medical services . |
| 12 | We 're moving to Shanghai with mixed feelings , as we 've heard we 'll be staying in the Peace Hotel , in the noisy centre of the city , but it 's nice to feel now that we are moving on to the home stretch . |
| 13 | De Klerk said his visit showed South Africa and the world that " we are moving back to the fold " . |
| 14 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
| 15 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 16 | I believe I told you that we are to move on to the Astors ? ’ |
| 17 | That is , when you ask erm er who are we , is any part of what we are made up by the body , the answer 's quite straightforwardly no , we er already identified use the body , this other thing . |
| 18 | Then suddenly , we are drawn along with the poet into a new and wonderful realisation . |
| 19 | Perhaps we are heading back in a full-circle towards the days of Victorian philanthropy — Back towards the days before state provision when organisations like Barnardos , the Salvation Army and the C.O.S. were the dominant providers . |
| 20 | Here again , we are taken back to the very beginning of the town , to the years just after the Norman Conquest — for King 's Lynn is not really old by English standards . |
| 21 | They say it is too soon to say if either will produce any results , but Chief Inspector Steve Cross of Cheshire 's Serious Crime Squad confirmed : ‘ We have been given some new names which we are following up at the moment . |
| 22 | All that memory can provide contributes already to our feeling that in calling this sensation ‘ pain ’ we are going on in the same way , following the rule . |
| 23 | ‘ We are going round to the stage door now , ’ she announced firmly . |
| 24 | We are going down towards the forest and the Arctic night is awesome . |
| 25 | we a we are going , we are going out for a meal on Saturday night i er , in , with or without , we 're going out , I 've er we want to go to the when we went with . |
| 26 | We need to sort out the EC 's finances if we are to get on with the community 's enlargement . |
| 27 | A a and certainly the way that we are set up at the moment , there is no need for us to do that . |
| 28 | ‘ We are carrying on with the wedding as planned . ’ |
| 29 | Erm , I also suspect that one solution is erm not very satisfactory to one group of people and the other solution is not very satisfactory to another group of people and of course er since we are coming up to an election do n't want to offend either group of people . |
| 30 | I think we are coming up to the peaks now . ’ |