Example sentences of "we [vb base] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lay entwined on a secluded hillside . |
| 2 | Lind believes that as we become sensitized to a particular quality or relationship so attentive focus comes to oscillate amongst all the similar proximate elements . |
| 3 | we can carry on with this next week , as , as you see , we 've touched on a big topic , so we 'll , we 'll leave it to you to introduce next week 's discussion , whatever way you think fit , erm , that raises other issues which you want to talk about . |
| 4 | We 've moved on a long way from the original version . ’ |
| 5 | But in our time , it 's very quiet now so we 've we 've moved into a different routine again , where I have two two sergeants out at one time , changing over er frequently so they do n't get bored . |
| 6 | that people can make their o , they have a balanced education which allows them then to make their own choices about , that things are n't over , I mean if we 've lived in a patriarchal society in which men are in power and that kin , and male sexuality maybe has come through more in sex education , those have been the issues that have been co , ha have been given more importance and female issues have maybe been neglected a little bit and now erm , with Aids as a problem we do n't want to turn out and suddenly become really homo homophobic or really , you know , right condoms , condoms , it has to be you know , you need to kind of keep the balance so that people are given the information and then have the freedom to make the choice themselves . |
| 7 | Cos we 've gone through a whole sort of full circle about taking a stance that 's very aggressive in terms of saying if we i i if we tender for something we 're gon na hit the client with V Os and this that and the other . |
| 8 | Now we 've gone to a blue screen . |
| 9 | We 've heard of a small baby who chewed through a gift and swallowed a battery , and of a granny who bought one of those talking baby dolls for her favourite grandaughter , only to find that it had a vocabulary of four-letter words . |
| 10 | ‘ Or perhaps we 've strayed into a black hole , ’ Philip Swallow continues , evidently enchanted with his flight of astronomical fancy . |
| 11 | John Hancock , executive design engineer for the Engines Group division of Cosworth , said the engine received a lot of attention at the show in Detroit : ‘ We 've talked to a wide range of people who might want to use it , or derivatives of it , ’ he said . |
| 12 | We 've known for a long time that when you can talk on the run , the miles just fly by . |
| 13 | Er well Madam Deputy Speaker I think erm that the last half an hour shown that er the quality of debate in this house er remains extremely high and that even when you have an issue which on the face of it looks to be as dry as dust er that er there are some honourable members who will pick an argument er when perhaps er on the face of it there ought not to be much of an argument er I ca n't erm I ca n't say that erm I agreed with much of what erm the honourable member for Great Grimsby said er he seemed to imply er quite early on his er speech that most of the City of London er was collapsing in a sea of sleaze and er er other other goings on which are extremely er to be regretted but erm I think we ought to er remind him er that erm , you know , all all of these four orders er followed the Bingham inquiry into er what happened at B C C I which was not a British bank , was an international bank based erm overseas and I think I 'm right in saying this and I 'm sure my honourable friend the minister will confirm when he winds up er this is the first er such difficulty er that we 've experienced for a great length of time . |
| 14 | Yes we 've approached on a regular basis we 've we approach |
| 15 | It is certainly my hope that this is the last time we have heard of a Denning-type investigation . |
| 16 | As we have seen in a previous chapter , he argued that such an illusory growth could in fact mask a real decline in values and use-values . |
| 17 | We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden . |
| 18 | ‘ We have asked for a full investigation . |
| 19 | ‘ Our side against Huddersfield will be the most experienced we have fielded for a long time . |
| 20 | We have argued for a long time that there is a peripheral argument that in the strategic interests of the nation we should be concerned about the coal industry . |
| 21 | We have argued for a revised theory of the relations between state and people : one reflecting the role of states in managing social relations and moral careers but one which recognises too that states , in representing a general or ‘ national ’ interest , have an important emotional significance . |
| 22 | We have landed in a blind alley . ’ |
| 23 | Republican conspirators had found little support ; Picornell , whom we have met as a republican conspirator in Spain , failed to engineer a rebellion , while Miranda 's expedition of 1806 was a fiasco . |
| 24 | ‘ As to not knowing me , I think we have fitted into a peculiar relationship very quickly . |
| 25 | We have accepted for a long time that traumatic stress incidents are the basis of an industrial injury claim . |
| 26 | If we have decided on a moderate degree of modulation , it is well to know what is most effective and what subsequent progressions ( to return to the tonic ) are good . |
| 27 | Let us assume that we have fixed on a particular language . |
| 28 | It is for instance a continuous and powerfully effective factor in the change of lexical meaning ; and as it happens , we have touched on a syntactic case in this very chapter , in the development of fixed relative order for classes of adjectives in prenominal position ( cf. , too , the emergence of " characteristic " and " occasion " values for prenominals and postnominals , respectively ) . |
| 29 | This debate , which essentially arises out of the Piper Alpha disaster , has been given even greater poignancy due to the reports that we have received of a major explosion at Grangemouth . |
| 30 | ‘ For some time now we have operated on a customer-led basis , ’ explained Paul . |