Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We crept close enough to see the features which set them apart from curlew : the smaller size , relatively shorter bill and pattern of light and dark head-stripes . |
| 2 | Although both the Indians and colonists are involved in actual and potential conflicts , the people we met almost always helped in our work . |
| 3 | We failed quite clearly to get our vote out . |
| 4 | As you can see we 've so far spent just under 500 dollars ! ’ |
| 5 | But perhaps also we tend even more to suppress recognition of sexual elements in the child 's feeling for us — or in our feeling for the child . |
| 6 | Worse than this , we tend not only to limit ourselves to looking at faces , but also to be preoccupied with whether they smile or not . |
| 7 | She also conceded , however , ‘ We tend not routinely to inform GPs . |
| 8 | We got on well to start with and were definitely in love , but we both changed over the years and in the end everything went wrong . |
| 9 | But , although the business generally had to be won at lower margins in the face of stiffer competition , our performance should have been very much better , and would have been had we responded more promptly to market fluctuations . |
| 10 | The new NVQ training and assessment programme that we mentioned earlier also holds great promise for expanding the career advancement opportunities for paraprofessionals in Britain . |
| 11 | It is not intended to provide the detail that is rightly expected by the local communities who live and work in close proximity to our operations , and which we provide through locally published reports . |
| 12 | One day it was decided we would take our dinner to eat in the nearby Botanical Gardens , and we staggered down there laden with dishes , plates etc. , Mary-Anne hiding under her coat from embarrassment in case she passed anyone she knew ! |
| 13 | We strolled out together leaving the indignant Sally to pick up her heaps of black silk . |
| 14 | Here we show how TODAY produced a slimline Santa and gave him a new modern look . |
| 15 | But if we react too strongly to fear , the brake is applied so hard that we come to a standstill , and fail to grow — which means a wasted lifetime . |
| 16 | … We bend over backwards to do the thing [ properly ] … but what happens in practice — do we mean it ? |
| 17 | But it 's all we do we do n't even sell cake decorations or equipment . |
| 18 | So we ca n't we do n't usually talk about ligand gated channels being sodium channels , they 'll normally pass more than one type of cation fairly non-selectively , they do n't really mind . |
| 19 | But you see we do n't really need a chainsaw do we ? |
| 20 | If we must be so very careful , then , in using what people write about themselves , would we do any better to turn to what other people have to write ? |
| 21 | How hopeless and ludicrous everything was : the seas of incomprehension , the misunderstandings that could never be cleared up because we seemed not only to speak different languages but to inhabit different countries . |
| 22 | ‘ We played well enough to have won , ’ he said . |
| 23 | We export not only form and content but western economics-based theories of media regulation that serve the interests of transnationals rather than those of peoples . |
| 24 | We studied only newly diagnosed cases of cervical abnormality because the persistence or recurrence of cervical neoplasia might also be affected by the factors under study . |
| 25 | ‘ We came here today to see how you were doing , up here in the bushes with Nana , ’ her mother explained , leaning against the hot side of the car and avoiding the child 's eyes . |
| 26 | Cos in Tom Sawyer we came on together did n't we ? |
| 27 | ‘ We came out here looking for a 100per cent record and I 'll be disappointed if we go back with a defeat , ’ said Llewellyn . |
| 28 | But perhaps our feet were guided there , because we came out much soothed and at peace . |
| 29 | So one word we came down here to talk about , and hey , here 's a whole lot things . |
| 30 | Before we came down here to clean the caravan . |