Example sentences of "[prep] what we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After what we saw and felt last night , we can not be surprised that Sir Charles died of fright . |
| 2 | After what we 've said about visual support , it might seem perverse to use a video machine without the picture . |
| 3 | Frankly , after what we 've been through together that 's nothing short of childish . |
| 4 | The thing I do n't like about this amendment is it actually moves us nowhere and we can not after what we 've seen over the summer , move nowhere . |
| 5 | After what we 'd been through , it was an absolute pleasure , and many passengers refused to rejoin the plane , preferring new careers mopping up oceans of urine , and scraping generations of dried shit from the walls and little holes in the ground , rather than facing up to any more sticky orange and hostess abuse . |
| 6 | Jan Kern , secretary-general of the DLV , echoed those sentiments when he said : ‘ After what we have heard , there are no more faultless doping tests in the world . ’ |
| 7 | The sponsorship money will be used to upgrade facilities at the Stoop Memorial Ground because , according to chairman Roger Looker , ‘ We recognise we have a long way to go towards what we consider to be adequate facilities , particularly if we sustain our growth ’ . |
| 8 | He clenched his fist and added : ‘ If other people take no notice , if we achieve nothing , than we put in more engagement , we work more hard towards what we want ! ’ |
| 9 | I wish that we would legislate less and would spend more time considering what we do . |
| 10 | It is odd to reflect that the firmest objective record of what we experienced now lies in the films — themselves mere illusory genii of chemicals and light , bound to 400-foot reels of processed trees and silver . |
| 11 | It was much deeper and bigger than most of what we pick up on screens , our primary source of entertainment today . |
| 12 | It might not be a complete oversimplification to state that many of the profession 's difficulties with the lay public stem from the public 's basic incomprehension of what we write ; and yet is it not the particular beauty of the English language that the most appreciated and elegant words are in fact the simplest and most easily understood ? |
| 13 | But much of what we throw away can be recycled and used again . |
| 14 | By the year 2000 , local authorities must recycle 25 per cent of what we throw away . |
| 15 | Most of what we throw away goes into holes in the ground . |
| 16 | A lot of what we throw away has been made from raw materials which are not renewable . |
| 17 | In fact , eighty per cent of what we throw away could have been used again : that means that , out of every five dustbins of " rubbish " , four contain valuable recyclable materials . |
| 18 | The exercise brought home to me the need — and indeed the advantage — of establishing within the college a culture or ethos of total institutional responsibility for the quality of what we devise , offer and deliver . |
| 19 | Liberal Democrats recognise the importance of the things we own in private but we also know the value of what we hold in common . |
| 20 | It is a matter of common sense that part of what we respect in persons is a technical appreciation of the sheer range of possibilities associated with them . |
| 21 | Despite the surge of investment in the late nineteen eighties , the long-term trend is towards investing an ever smaller proportion of what we earn . |
| 22 | ‘ A significant chunk of what we earn goes on child-minding . |
| 23 | As McKerrow put it : " much of what we strive to find out was not and could not be known to those of the period which we study , for it was veiled from them by the life of everyday . " |
| 24 | If any one would like to find out more of what we 've been doing — just let us know . |
| 25 | We may be ashamed of what we 've said or done . |
| 26 | ‘ Because I 'm proud of what we 've done as Carter . |
| 27 | Erm I wonder how substantially it 's going to re-written , first , in order to make it a response rather than an issue raising paper and ah , secondly , in the light of what we 've all had to say this evening and , if it is to be re-written I wonder erm who is going to actually see it and approve it before it goes off in time to get to the health authority by the day after tomorrow ? |
| 28 | Erm having produced that report and having erm er done the follow up on it , it does n't seem to me that it would be reasonable for the general assembly to expect that the Board would come back year after year with repetitions of what we 've already said , and that 's why the commissioner notices that erm we do n't report this year on child abuse . |
| 29 | Now of what we 've been doing today with fractions was there any of it that you 're not quite sure of and you think , But could you just tell me about that bit again . |
| 30 | And here are some examples of what we 've done . |