Example sentences of "we [vb base] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lay entwined on a secluded hillside . |
| 2 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
| 3 | We bring to bear on the various officers and employees and shareholders and others associated with the corporation our ordinary standards of personal responsibility . |
| 4 | The standards we bring to bear in the act of appraisal have their purchase precisely because the act , or artefact , or creation , or social institution is not fixed , but has a degree of mutability about it . |
| 5 | ‘ You made the condition that we dance according to the music , ’ he reminded her . |
| 6 | As we have explained earlier in the book , insulin response to the carbohydrate foods we eat varies with the speed of absorption of the carbohydrate . |
| 7 | We make do with the dole and Ellie 's going in with a friend who 's just started a café which 'll help with the food . |
| 8 | Whilst physical infirmity may make physical care of great significance to the old person and mental infirmity may limit their capacity to give and receive other kinds of care , the efforts we make to relate to the whole person are critical if we are to avoid the stigmatising and depersonalising processes which insult the integrity of the old person . |
| 9 | Suppose we make known to a child that we have three sticks , all of different length . |
| 10 | It is the way we intend to proceed in a whole range of different market areas . ’ |
| 11 | Therefore , before embarking on any research project we must make clear that we intend to act on the results . |
| 12 | Data-gathering should only be undertaken if we intend to act upon the information which has been accumulated . |
| 13 | We intend to arrive at the Radcliffe Infirmary at 10.30 am on Thursday 15 June and we would hope to complete the interview with you in approximately an hour . |
| 14 | We shall be writing to you around August 1989 to check that the information that we intend to put onto the Register about you is correct . |
| 15 | We intend looking at the situation again in … |
| 16 | Against these dramatic changes , we intend to remain at the centre as an effective resource for the voluntary sector , and an important bridge between the sector and others . |
| 17 | He said that the USA was " a Pacific nation and we intend to remain in the Pacific for the long haul " . |
| 18 | ‘ We intend to learn from the mistakes of the larger corporations , rather than copying what other people are doing , ’ says Mr Neill . |
| 19 | This is because our movements slowly become stereotyped as life goes on and we tend to move in a way that feels ‘ right ’ to us . |
| 20 | Hydrogen 's the one we tend to treat as a a metal . |
| 21 | We tend to refer to the World Church as something outside our particular constituency and we must n't forget that we must own the World Church . |
| 22 | Living in the country , we tend to put on a bit of a show on special occasions , and Edward 's parties used to be very sought-after . |
| 23 | In answer to the question " where is the White House ? " , we tend to respond with a step-by-step description of the journey to be taken . |
| 24 | So too with the body clock : it might be that several outputs with different periods are possible and that we tend to concentrate upon the daily or circadian clock because this is the period that is most useful to the organism and which has naturally been accentuated by the environment with its 24-hour period . |
| 25 | We tend to think of the reptiles as somehow past their ‘ prime ’ , but it would be more accurate to say that they had been displaced from the top jobs in nature , while more than holding their own in the shop floor . |
| 26 | In Britain ( with all too few honourable exceptions ) we tend to accept as the norm , prefab huts equipped with smelly loos , worn carpets or line , tatty curtains and torn seat cushions . |
| 27 | We tend to play at the point of the evening when the temperature drops , so I tune up just before Bryan goes on and then after three or four songs they 're all sharp , because the temperature has dropped . |
| 28 | We tend to work from the Centre in the friendly critic role . |
| 29 | When we are anxious — and we may well be anxious about trying something new — we tend to stick with the familiar and the tried and tested . |
| 30 | But even if we tend to look for the scholarly , non-involved biography of the great man or woman we can not be sure that the work will be beyond criticism . |