Example sentences of "we [vb base] [adv] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , we tend not to see the intense depression in a motionless and unresponsive horse , or the annoyance in one that has turned its back on the horse or person offending it , or the anxiety in the tightened abdominal muscles of the showpony expecting the pain of the spur . |
| 2 | We hope shortly to do the same in Hungary . |
| 3 | If we set out to design the worst possible pelvis we could end up with something like a Friesian , Charolais or Belgian Blue cow . |
| 4 | We set out to win that Cambridgeshire and we set out to win the two races at Haydock which came before today , ’ he smiled . |
| 5 | ‘ We set out to pay the last mournful duties through a road almost impassable with snow which continued to fall with a boisterous wind which blew it into immense drifts . |
| 6 | One morning we set off to find the primal mound where the world began . |
| 7 | The following day we set off to walk the Clear Creek trail which winds along the Colorado river , following a high gritstone outcrop about 1,640′ above it . |
| 8 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 9 | It 'll be interesting to see if I 'm still on this basic-guitar tack when we go in to record the next Tin Machine album . |
| 10 | A fourth and perhaps the largest reason for attending to causation is that we do well to avoid the general conceptual uncertainty that must be part of an inquiry which leaves undefined any of its fundamental ideas which are open to definition . |
| 11 | If we choose not to include the lasting works in the lonely mountains , only church registers survive to remind us of this remarkable facet of Keswick , and indeed Coniston 's , past history . |
| 12 | We settle down to watch the next film . |
| 13 | Unfortunately in this country , we have yet to reach the same stage . |
| 14 | We have still to mention the following , whose contributions arrived after the last published list : Pete Silverton , Pat O'Neill , M How , Brad Hatton , W McColl and William Gibson . |
| 15 | But does not this suggest that we have only to learn the same lesson over again ? |
| 16 | Having said that , however , we need critically to explore the pluralist perspective . |