Example sentences of "we [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where are we off to this morning then , so sunk in our own fantasies and imaginings that we can not be troubled to look out for vulnerable senior citizens , eh ? ’ |
| 2 | Well when the sirens went at the beginning , what few rifles we 'd got , he 'd er take us out and string we out along this brook , a rifle every so often and and facing one way and looking round to see when anything goes up and in case anybody come over or anything come over and er that was the initial start . |
| 3 | Glenn takes us on to better things . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And that might seem a rather odd way to actually spend some of your redundancy money , but perhaps this leads us on to another area influencing the demand , and that 's to do with , if you like , psychology . |
| 6 | That put us in about 15–20th place — — quite handy . |
| 7 | She bowed in her turn to an irresistible force and let us in with raised eyebrows and an air of power suspended , not abdicated . |
| 8 | After a brief lapse , Fate booked us in for more hardship . |
| 9 | A broad Land-rover track led us down to Hard Level where lived poor Adam Baker who was fined for not burying his daughter in a woollen shroud " according to the law " . |
| 10 | Heaps of spoil lay between Stags Fell and the road , so we picked our way through them and down by a wall to the road , following a pleasant series of falls through Shaw Gill Wood above Hardraw Force for a while before hitting the road again where a footpath took us down through flower-spattered meadows to Hardraw . |
| 11 | Fletcher said : ‘ Our batting department has let us down in both Tests , although everyone has been working hard on their game and how to combat their spinners on turning pitches . |
| 12 | There were four of us , and our father , who was the Wesleyan Chapel steward , knew that cinema films would overstimulate our brains , give us over to vain imaginings and , worse , tempt us to worship false gods . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Flupper showed us the deadly thorn bushes that wrap round their prey like octopuses : and then whooshed us off at savage speeds — sometimes so fast he aquaplaned over the water . |
| 14 | He 'd suddenly take us off on crazy weekends . |
| 15 | First , the curt instruction to make a mayonnaise ‘ a la main ’ , though this proved much easier than expected when Eric started us off with three egg yolks and a healthy dollop of strong French mustard ( tip of the year for this amateur chef ) before adding the first drop of oil . |
| 16 | Around that time , we heard about a network , which could link us up to other cocoa workers around the world . |
| 17 | Carrycots are sometimes recommended for us up to nine months . |
| 18 | A refund less one day 's parking rate administration charge will be made in the event of a cancellation if received by us up to 72 hours prior to your departure date . |
| 19 | We had to shift 1,000 lbs between us up to 11,000 feet and over 1,300 miles . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He flew me , and a friend out there , put us up for three nights , then gave us a holiday in the Florida Keys , all paid for ’ . |
| 21 | It made us able to stand up on our own two feet , to sharpen us up in many respects . |
| 22 | The government would save so much money in the long run if they built us all homes instead of putting us up in this dump ; it 's ridiculous . ’ |
| 23 | You will see from the lists above that modem education brings us up from early childhood to use our left brains in preference to our right brains . |
| 24 | ‘ You mean in case Blenkinsop 's successor puts us back on short rations ? |
| 25 | The first source takes us back to ancient Egypt where the sacred cat was thought to bestow many blessings on the household that looked after it . |
| 26 | ‘ Which brings us back to that window . |
| 27 | This can cast us back to that sense of aestheticism and dedication that we saw in the sixth elegy . |
| 28 | It would discourage profit and perhaps take us back to that nadir of Labour party policy when Shirley Williams was able to say with some pride that profit levels were the lowest they had been for years . |
| 29 | He predicted the economy will start to grow again next year by one per cent , after contracting by one per cent this year — bringing us back to 1991 levels by 1993 . |
| 30 | It really takes us back to this question of managing information and of organising to do this . |