Example sentences of "we [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the next two days , as we tried to discover the fate of the 11 men , we met with the most powerful warlord in the country : General Aideed , who denied all knowledge of the incident and proved unable , or unwilling to do anything to find out . |
| 2 | We picnicked on the leeward side of a wall . |
| 3 | Once we finally identified the leaked document , we countered in the most conclusive way known in politics : we published it in its entirety . |
| 4 | But how it could be brought to bear on specific political decisions that had to be taken in for instance the 1930s — this was far from clear even to Eliot himself , if we judge from the dryly disenchanted tone of many of his editorial pronouncements and observations in The Criterion . |
| 5 | When we got inside the dimly lit space beneath the main altar , we found an open coffin , in which a partially decomposed skeleton was lying . |
| 6 | Today we approached from the most picturesque direction , through a stile set in the wall of the narrow stone bridge whose elegant arches span the burn 's deep-cut ravine . |
| 7 | Er frankly , these investigations at any level are very thorough , we depend upon the very thorough investigations in probity of all the government jurisdictions in which we operate . |
| 8 | Individualism will gradually assert itself — which does n't mean you 've fallen out of love , merely out of that phase of romantic love we confuse with the more lasting thing . |
| 9 | Which was a shame , since each afternoon we sauntered round the beautifully manicured , palm-fringed courses at La Manga . |
| 10 | More than physical possession , in which , Proust says , one actually possesses nothing , Marcel seeks from Albertine reassurance concerning his own distinctiveness , his separateness , his individuality , and in Proust 's conception of love , therefore , failure is inevitable , because despite the conventionally unifying language of love , what we seek at the most profound level is not contact with another person , but contact with ourselves . |
| 11 | In the afternoon we arrived at the truly beautiful island of Mayero which has no boutiques or roads and only a few hundred inhabitants . |
| 12 | Many of the skills we acquire on the most mundane level are exactly the same as those that are needed in any high-powered job — the ability to manage people , to organize schedules , make the most of limited resources , to keep calm in a crisis , and to encourage those dependent upon us . |
| 13 | Now we read of the most direct and serious threat of all . |
| 14 | To do this we look at the very small differences in energy levels of electrons in the atom that these nuclear properties produce . |
| 15 | And when you look far into space , you 're also looking back in time and we 're looking back when we look at the very most distant objects . |
| 16 | Here we look at the more important names . |
| 17 | On Thursday , the way we look after the less able people in our society will undergo drastic change , the biggest since the start of the National Health service . |
| 18 | We shall come across this concern again in 1922 when we travel through the much stronger industrial nexus of Kharkov . |
| 19 | ‘ Then what are we to do for the best ? ’ |
| 20 | Monday arrived , as we set out we had two major obstacles to overcome , firstly not getting lost in Budapest ( which we achieved for the very first time ) and secondly getting through the border between Hungary and Romania . |
| 21 | 6000 , not of a male population in 431 of about 40,000 , could he accommodated on the Pnyx , the open-air meeting-place , and that total was regularly reached in the fourth century , as we know from the very many attested grants of citizenship , for which a quorum of 6000 was required . |
| 22 | Now we get to the most problematic part of installing most motherboards — wiring it up . |
| 23 | Have we coped with the very different needs demanded in small groupings of workers based in small shops , or residential homes , or private sports centres , small offices or even individuals working on their own ? |
| 24 | ‘ We do n't want to go for the sort of so called innovation that can alienate an audience , ’ he exclaims when we talk about the sometimes clichéd dynamics of their music . |
| 25 | Are we asking for the experimentally and/or theoretically impossible ? |
| 26 | Taking the so-called lower levels of language to some extent for granted , we proceeded from the most detailed features of discourse towards the most general . |
| 27 | ‘ It is our intention to provide a full opportunity for organisations such as your own to contribute at an early draft plan stage before we proceed to the more formal statutory plan stage . ’ |
| 28 | Can we go to the soon ? |
| 29 | We apologize for the somewhat chaotic state of affairs on Saturday and the slight lateness in some runs . |
| 30 | MY OWN researches show that many wartime stories still remain secret and , as we saw with the Ultra story , if no documents are available it is extremely difficult ( as Chapman Pincher found in 1959 ) to expose the truth . |