Example sentences of "we [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We dwelled in the fair , listened to the conflicting |
| 2 | We rode to the fourth floor , the doors slid open , we regarded each other in silence from our chosen corners , the doors slid to , and by the time we returned to the ground floor divorce was forgotten and the marriage reconsummated . |
| 3 | I ca n't remember it all , but I think we rode along the old railway line . ’ |
| 4 | As we skimmed along the last hundred metres , I said to the lieutenant , ‘ Tuan , have you something the boy can put over his shirt ? |
| 5 | Again , as we launch into the second movement andante ( lots of energy , a real spirit of dance in the ostinato is a mite tasteful , discreet rather than craggily elemental ; so , to a point , is the brawny bass line which spurs us on to stratospheric violins and shining trumpets , though true to form Pešek is wonderfully atmospheric , nurturing and distilling the moments of quiet contemplation just prior to the coda . |
| 6 | Then we launch into the unknown future . |
| 7 | In practice we distinguish between the external cause of a rhythm , which is caused by our life-style or environment , and another internal cause , which we might say is due to a clock within our body . |
| 8 | We distinguish between the independent financial entity and the competitive units it owns . |
| 9 | And we gazed into the little flickering fire , grieving once more for the parents brought face to face with reality . |
| 10 | Sipping lager , we gazed at the front-page face of a dour middle-aged nurse who had been sacked for making porno movies on hospital premises . |
| 11 | But I will plan ahead , even if we crash into the Fourth Division . |
| 12 | The thing is , we met through the Lonely Hearts ads and I 'm afraid my friends will laugh at me when they find out . |
| 13 | As Dr Reading told BBC WILDLIFE : ‘ We met at the first World Congress of Herpetology at Canterbury in 1989 , and subsequently arranged to co-ordinate the two projects . ’ |
| 14 | We met for the first time just two days before departure and accepted a murderous schedule of four games in 10 days , before opening against the New Zealand provincial champions just two days after a 25 hour journey to Dunedin . |
| 15 | Tamed native birds flocked on the poolside boardwalk of their rented hideaway , ‘ Hawksnest ’ , as we met for the first time , and Robin encircled his shyness with a stream-of-consciousness banter , made easier by the antics of a visiting cocker spaniel , which bit the head off a parrot . |
| 16 | On Wednesday 13 February , we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item . |
| 17 | We met in the early morning . |
| 18 | But my boss is a resilient character and when we met in the late afternoon he was bursting with his old spirit . |
| 19 | We met in the odd foursome and it did n't really work out . |
| 20 | Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park . |
| 21 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 22 | We lay on the hard , orange clay and went through the different procedures that we would use when we went off to fire on the shooting range . |
| 23 | Our arguments are based not only on our national interest but on the risks we perceive to the competitive position of the Community as a whole . |
| 24 | Although all modem workers ' movements have developed strategies comprising both labour market and political components how can we explain within the European context the greater emphasis upon the achievement of radical change in the structure of society by French and Italian unions , whose thrust ( certainly up to the late 1960s ) has been at least as much ideological and political as industrial , in comparison with West German or British unions ? |
| 25 | Like other unions we suffer from the severe loss of members due to unemployment and we are appalled at the devastation of family life when the breadwinner 's been sha cast on the scrap heap and the behaviour of the government it throws whole communities into depravity without a chance of any hope for the future and their children . |
| 26 | We rippled on the yellow sheet , the counterpane — and us — long gone . |
| 27 | If we pivot in the first of these , as indicated in the tableau , we obtain P3/T2 in which θ = θ . |
| 28 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
| 29 | We made for the top front of the vehicle , as this provided the best all-round view . |
| 30 | The main assessments we made about the structural situation of the economy and the direction of change needed for both the economy and society have been verified . |