Example sentences of "we [vb base] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He relaxed with a happy grunt , and we lay peacefully for a bit longer . |
| 2 | We are taken through the political and social development of a country which the US regards as its gateway to South America — and we wind up in a situation little different from the past in which an elite group monopolized economic and political power . |
| 3 | We sit around for a bit , chatting . |
| 4 | What I do n't like is that we went back did n't we , I do n't know if you saw my thing to David where we report back on a fax , report every month |
| 5 | The experts at Poly know that we want more from a perm than just curl so they have formulated a product that does much more . |
| 6 | The French are just laughing at us as we stumble around in a fog . ’ |
| 7 | So er I mean you can actually say to your children , well okay you know if I , we die tomorrow in a road accident , there 'd be a liability to tax , erm and say the estate 's worth two hundred thousand , then fifty thousand would be liable to tax at forty pence in the pound , so there 'd be twenty thousand pound debt to pay to the revenue . |
| 8 | We speak here of a man who has just completed a season in which he won four USPGA Tour events and more than $1,000,000 to finish second on the money list behind Greg Norman . |
| 9 | Alas , however , we speak here of a democracy of those with the least sense of urgency to correct what is wrong , the best insulation through short-run comfort from what could go wrong — a democracy run by and for the contented majority , in which those who do not share in its benefits do not participate . |
| 10 | We have included in our proposal this year twenty thousand revenue effects of a hundred thousand pounds capital bid on traffic calming and other similar measures , something which is very popular around the city , as long as you ask people what they want first and which in previous years we put forward as a revenue bid . |
| 11 | ‘ We give up to a 70% discount on some related products like paper , ’ Ms Knowles said . |
| 12 | We stand there for a second or two . |
| 13 | ‘ Proper Darby and Joan Club we run here of a Thursday . |
| 14 | We look in at a window . |
| 15 | But it is also helpful to see how such principles have been put into operation , and for this reason we look now at a discussion of two large urban sociolinguistic research projects , in Philadelphia and Belfast , which have utilized a range of different methods to attain different types of goal . |
| 16 | Having just been reading a bright-red leaflet we glance up to a plain , white wall — at which instant we see a green patch . |
| 17 | It was repaired under warranty but recently we have noticed the engine crackles very loudly when we slow down after a journey of several miles . |
| 18 | We hear also of a series of disasters visited by God on the country , in order to force the Egyptians ' hands . |
| 19 | we set down in a passing-place and basked |
| 20 | With full combat kit , helmet , rifle and webbing , and weighed down by a thirty-five pound rucksack , we set off on a run . |
| 21 | Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens . |
| 22 | We get on like a house on fire — now we no longer live together . |
| 23 | If we get too near a car I think oh my god . |
| 24 | As we understand more about a text 's specific historicity , how it emerged from a distinctive social embedment , we might expect it to be unavailable sometimes for current employment . |
| 25 | A theory is a model whose internal logic we understand together with a claim that reality conforms to the concepts and logic of the model . |
| 26 | and they 're all pretty valid , and I can assure you that , if we allow up to a maximum of five hundred and we check out what they 're doing with it , and we put all the right s it 's not going to be money wasted . |
| 27 | Observations seems to be travelling well — we gather even to a teacher interested in action research in Latvia … |
| 28 | The goldfish ( Fig. 15 ) of the pool is exactly the same as the one we keep indoors as a pet and equally hardy . |
| 29 | Rolle suggests that this is begun in thought of the four last things : death , for " we lyve bot in a poynt " in " uncertente of owre endyng " ; judgement , when we account for our use of time " and ilk tyme we thynk not on God , we may cownt it als we have tynt " ( 4.95.19 – 22 , 38 – 9 ) ; heaven , the joy which is " mare any may tell " ; and hell , where also is burning in fire ( 4.96.46 – 7 , 54 ) . |
| 30 | Keen gardeners and fanatical car washers may have second thoughts about lavish spraying if we end up with a water meter at the bottom of our garden to measure the amount we actually use . |