Example sentences of "we [verb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike classical behaviourists , functionalists believe that is not possible to explain intelligent behaviour unless we make reference to processes that are taking place inside a person 's head . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's about time we asked Pam to dinner , ’ said Scarlet one evening . |
| 3 | If we deny this , surely we deny profit to society , opportunity for today 's older people and hope for our future selves . |
| 4 | She found it very difficult to get out of bed , so we moved life to centre it in the bedroom . |
| 5 | I was a pupil at Elmwood for almost three years , until we moved house to Ayrshire in 1961 . |
| 6 | Last year we send money to Romania . |
| 7 | We headed north to Port de Centuri on a trip that was only 35 miles yet seemed like 135 as a result of the sheer concentration needed on the mountain roads but it was worth every second because of the incredible views . |
| 8 | At each level of the system we found claims to breadth and balance undermined by countervailing policies and practices : by Authority special projects favouring some areas at the expense of others ; in central INSET provision ; in PNP development fund allocations ; in the distribution of posts of responsibility in schools ; in school-based INSET ; in the status of postholders and the time they had to undertake their curriculum leadership responsibilities ; in the areas of the curriculum subjected to review and development ; in teacher expertise ; and above all in the quality of children 's classroom experiences . |
| 9 | We no longer administer legislation , we provide products to customers . |
| 10 | Here we say farewell to Sutherland . |
| 11 | And prices would almost certainly rise : at the moment we charge 2p to 3p less than national brewers , including Anglo-Welsh ! |
| 12 | Yet no one warned us when we hired bikes to cycle in the remote mountain valley park . |
| 13 | And would you believe it ? we came face to face with the McNabs . |
| 14 | GUIL : And even if we came face to face , what do we say ? |
| 15 | And then we 'd cycle to Pilton , and I was completely happy beside my big fine-looking uncle with his shiny blue-black hair while he made some dinner , and then we 'd potter about all afternoon in his garden and his little greenhouse . |
| 16 | Invariably , whenever I am out shopping with my little boy , conversation with people we meet turns to sweets , with questions like ‘ Are you going to buy some sweets today ? ’ or ‘ Does n't he want sugar in his drink ? ’ |
| 17 | These are , we are saying here things that we rejoice to say and which we give glory to God . |
| 18 | We give thanks to God . |
| 19 | Birds are much lower on the evolutionary scale , which is another criterion in determining what we consider cruelty to animals . |
| 20 | Mr Wilson said : ‘ The most pleasing thing is that we attract people to activities here who do n't necessarily have anything to do with the Baptist church . ’ |
| 21 | These schemes , then , can be summarized under the following heads : we run residency and award schemes , we run grants to artists and craftsmen and photographers , we run an artists in school scheme , which involves placement of and artist for two weeks or so in a local secondary school , we offer payments to artists for exhibiting in certain galleries , something akin to the public lending right , we also provide assistance for the purchase and commissioning of contemporary work , and finally we run an artists ' register , which is a slide register of work of artists within the region , which is accessible to anyone who wants to come along and look at it , whether they are organizing an exhibition or thinking of commissioning a piece for their own living rooms , or perhaps a piece for their town hall or public library or whatever . |
| 22 | We extend thanks to Brian Perry , Director of the Library 's Research and Development Department ( R&DD ) for his encouragement and his ‘ after dinner ’ thoughts on the 25th of June , and to Stephanie Kenna , also of the British Library 's R&DD , for the essential guidance and assistance she gave us throughout the pre- and post-seminar stages . |
| 23 | I 'm not suggesting that we chain Peter to Caliban for eighteen hours a day . |
| 24 | That is to say : we explore ; we produce ; we pipe gas to homes and factories ; we sell appliances to burn gas ; and we do installation and repair work as well . |
| 25 | In April 1992 we achieved registration to BS 5750 : Part 2 with BSI Quality Assurance after company-wide assessment by their audit teams . |
| 26 | From Rabat we walked south to Xlendi . |
| 27 | We we worked Monday to Saturday |
| 28 | If this is a common experience sexually , how do we approach commitment to God ? |
| 29 | But how do we gain access to Renaissance culture , especially when our readings of the texts that document that culture indicate that a process of necessary counterfeit may have played a part in determining how these texts inscribed their culture ? |
| 30 | ‘ We lost Joey to cancer when he was twelve . |