Example sentences of "we [verb] on [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , in teaching the communication module , we focus on communication with people with disabilities . |
| 2 | Judging the moment , we exploded on deck with all our navigational " tools " and I , usually the smooth talker of the family , went into action . |
| 3 | We depend on support from a wide range of sponsors in the commercial and private sector . |
| 4 | And so we sailed on south for some days . |
| 5 | There was you know little firms like that and yet everybody was in , nobody nobody would ever try and er and er and er and escape paying their contribution , but there was a law you could n't join a union till you were sixteen , that was the law then in then , but er when this strike came back and we came on strike in December , er we lads who was under age joined the union , they give us all six bob a week , the union did . |
| 6 | We arrived on time at the factory , which was easily recognisable by the huge Supersight logo on the front of the building — one of those light industrial units , painted in bright primary colours , which litter the landscape of Britain — bright , satanic mills , I suppose you could call them . |
| 7 | Bruce added : ‘ Our major task was the retubing of both Thomas Bach and Una which we maintain on behalf of the museum . |
| 8 | From Blakethwaite Dams we walked on south past the shooting box belonging to Lord Peel 's estate through a landscape which was now a desert of lead-mine spoil , called on the map by the strangely incongruous name of Merry Field . |
| 9 | ‘ It is all part of the countdown process until we get on air in January . ’ |
| 10 | By the time we arrive on tip-toe to the spot , whatever it was has either gone or revealed itself to be a log . |
| 11 | ‘ We rely on help from the public — and in this case it was essential . |
| 12 | It may be suggested that we were inconsistent , or even guilty of unreasonable discrimination , in that we insisted on assessment in English in England for pupils whose mother tongue is not English , whereas in Wales we recommended that pupils being taught through the medium of Welsh be exempted from the key stage 1 attainment targets , programmes of study and assessment . |
| 13 | We go on holiday to Cornwall , John and I and my family . |
| 14 | And , say Armitages Pet Products , we 're also buying them presents if we go on holiday without them . |
| 15 | It can not be otherwise with the approach of death ; whether we go on pilgrimage with Raleigh or put out to sea with Tennyson , the metaphor of travel is one with which the poets have made us familiar . |
| 16 | Will often visited Lord Southampton , but sometimes we went on tour with the company , or spent time at home in Stratford . |
| 17 | From Havelock North we went on south to Wellington , driving through the Manawatu Gorge in a thunderstorm so heavy we had to pull up . |
| 18 | It all goes the same way whe when we went on holiday in O end of Octob end of October it goes |
| 19 | The first time we went on strike in 1976 to obtain a collective contract , the North American manager said to the strike committee : " You do n't need a trade union here — this is a factory full of women ! " |
| 20 | We went on strike in support of our demands but nothing came of it . |
| 21 | It may be that the Committee is unaware of the amount of work we do on behalf of cycling in Scotland . |
| 22 | Now if you 've planted a seed or if you have n't planted a seed then are we in a strong enough position there to ask about the people we dis we discussed on completion of the er first appointment ? |
| 23 | It is simply because we are fitter and tougher , harder and stronger , that we come on top on so many occasions . |
| 24 | But when it comes to saying , ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Sun the evaporation/solar-flares analogy is being advanced , not in order to justify an answer to a question of fact that arises within the language-game , but in order to justify an extension of the language-game we have on Earth to the Sun . |
| 25 | We jumped on board in the early days because of MIPS and the business we did with them . ’ |
| 26 | At the end of the evening Surkov was surrounded by a group of admirers soliciting autographs , and he shouted at us to go on back to the hotel , he would join us in a while . |
| 27 | ‘ Let us demand on behalf of humanity , because this is a crime against humanity , to take all measures to stop the genocide in at least one town , Gorazde , ’ he said . |
| 28 | We can not merely stipulate that there be no luck involved , because we all of us rely on luck to some extent . |