Example sentences of "[subord] we [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another area is that of foregrounding , where we draw on the terminology of traditional poetics ( " metaphor " , " metonymy " , onomatopoeia " , etc ) . |
| 2 | We wandered over Clare Bridge , which always looks as if it is about to collapse , and then up to St John 's , where we stood on the old Wren bridge and talked for some time , gazing at the so-called Bridge of Sighs which connects the old and new parts of St John 's . |
| 3 | ‘ I think it might even be further away than we came on the Long Drive , ’ said Masklin quietly . |
| 4 | Quite probably you will have discovered that you put much more emphasis than we did on the immediate problem of trying to discover whether it was Chrissie or Fred who was telling the truth . |
| 5 | Towards nightfall most of the refugees went back into Myitkyina for the night , but the remaining convalescents and I were too tired to do this , so we stayed on the airfield . |
| 6 | ‘ Michael and I played budding racing drivers , ’ said Bulloch , ‘ so we started on the go-karts . |
| 7 | That 's that 's like erm when we had a new girl once we put on the card BANW banw . |
| 8 | Once we agreed on the idea of pulling back on the emotion and letting the situation she was in speak for itself , the part took off . |
| 9 | Oh of course cos we went on the train did n't we |
| 10 | There were rumours but we did n't get our tropical kit until we got on the boat . |
| 11 | Eventually we all agreed we wanted this fierce bark that was both harsh and metallic , after which it was just a case of refining it down until we settled on the precise tone we ended up using . |
| 12 | First , it might be argued that to adopt a rational basis/rightness approach would create more uncertainty than if we proceeded on the hypothesis that all errors of law are jurisdictional . |
| 13 | Such latent knowledge is not at all surprising , if we reflect on the amazing complications of the rules of syntax , of constructing intelligible sentences , including the use of tenses , negatives , hypotheticals , which children pick up between the ages of 18 months and 4 or 5 , generally without any teaching at all . |
| 14 | Whereas if we go on the back of something else or somebody else as as you were saying on on the back of a wedding er brochure or something like that , in other words , go down down a specialized avenue rather than a general one , you might achieve something better . |
| 15 | I 'd like an extended playground , because at lunchtime the boys take up the playground and play football and if we go on the playground just to run around , they say ’ Oi get off , we 're playing football . ’ |
| 16 | Yes I think that may be right my Lord , indeed er if we succeed on the way out , get get out of the contract point then of course the plaintiff 's case is that they would have taken that advice and would not have entered into the contract a and therefore on that basis they are entitled to be compensated on the basis that all the losses they unnecessarily incurred by having , being forced to complete , should be recoverable , subject to er litigation of loss and . |
| 17 | if we follow on the same way |
| 18 | We can probably be most influential if we concentrate on the following issues : |
| 19 | He has no method , or if we insist on the word , a different method for each child . |
| 20 | ‘ If we sit on the outside , then it will be difficult for London to retain its top position ’ |
| 21 | Liffe chief executive Michael Jenkins warns that , in his personal view , the Government 's attitude to Europe is critical : ‘ If we sit on the outside , then it will be difficult for London to retain its position . ’ |
| 22 | If we listen on the one hand to the Secretary of State for the Environment and on the other hand to the Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities , it seems that the DOE has something like Dr. Doolittle 's ’ Push-me — pull-you . ’ |
| 23 | We are still attempting to persuade people that the figures they have been given or have invented are wrong and if we operate on the real figures there is no reason for mass closures of elderly persons homes and we are still attempting to make the refurbishment programme work as best we can to achieve the most we can in the shortest period and for the least money . |
| 24 | If we decide on the first then we can decide whether it 's a park or a sports ground or or what shall we do ? |
| 25 | The point I am making now is that , even if we look on the dark side and assume that individual man is fundamentally selfish , our conscious foresight — our capacity to simulate the future in imagination — could save us from the worst selfish excesses of the blind replicators . |
| 26 | If we look on the black side and assume that the remaining 24 readers who did not reply had regained their weight , it still left over two-thirds who had maintained their lost weight . |
| 27 | And if we live on the Algarve it means you can continue with your career . |
| 28 | Right , so me and Jim had a chat the other day just looking at the the roadside entries and the counts and I was sort of saying if we work on the basis that we want between ten and twelve people , twelve people maximum |
| 29 | I Obviously I ca n't preempt a discussion , but if we think on the evidence we see in in October that er that that is the course to take , we would do so . |
| 30 | Unless we go on the bus . |