Example sentences of "we [vb base] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lay coiled like snakes , listening to the wind gathering force to rage into a storm . |
| 2 | Cereals ( sophisticated grasses ) , fruits , vegetables , seeds and nuts are essential constituents of human diet — some may say the only suitable ones — and even the meat we eat comes from animals which themselves feed on vegetation in the shape of grasses and herbaceous plants . |
| 3 | For example if we make say for example five pence on the bottle and we or for cap er one of these for twenty bottle tops , that 's a quid which is paid for . |
| 4 | If he agrees that the position is as we think it should be , why does he not say that he agrees with the proposals in the Green Paper , which we intend to put into legislation ? |
| 5 | here 's what we intend to do in order |
| 6 | Erm , on page thirty you talk about the erm Employer 's Federation in the er minimum terms and conditions , well I 'm only hoping that my own firm Securicor do n't have any er input into that , because er as you know they unilaterally reduced all the terms and conditions Securicor guarding and cleaning recently erm I 'd like to know when we intend meeting with Securicor Cleaner I do know you 've written to them on a number of occasions and their refusal to meet with us . |
| 7 | In the subsequent discussions we intend to concentrate upon employment , prices , and the balance of payments as the most relevant objectives . |
| 8 | We er we intend to break into profit in year three when we should have recuperated our expenditure . |
| 9 | We intend to work in conjunction with the Musée des Arts de la Mode . |
| 10 | Accordingly , we intend to provide in regulations for direct payments to start once that 100 per cent . |
| 11 | We intend to marry in April , immediately after the House rises . ’ |
| 12 | We intend to speak to Helen . |
| 13 | Eating the right kind of food and having a balanced diet is important not only for weight control but for the well-being of skin , hair and every other part of us that we tend to treat in terms of beauty rather than health care . |
| 14 | We tend to talk about unemployment in terms of purely economic factors ; |
| 15 | With every player in the Whaddon team a potential striker , we tend to concentrate on defence but are always ready to spot the half chance to score a breakaway goal . |
| 16 | She says : ‘ We tend to concentrate on weaknesses . |
| 17 | These brief wakenings do not prevent a similar total quantity of sleep to younger men and women , since we tend to stay in bed slightly longer as we get older . |
| 18 | On this side of the Channel we tend to think of Bonington very differently . |
| 19 | Although we tend to think of selection interviewing as a conversation between two people there are several variations on this theme , all of which have their advantages and disadvantages . |
| 20 | We tend to think of animal vision only in terms of that part of the spectrum of light which we can see ; and yet we know that the spectrum extends far beyond this . |
| 21 | When we think of objectives we tend to think of objectives for growth and change . |
| 22 | Within the public sector we tend to think of politicians as providing the vision for the organisation , expressed in terms , depending upon the ideology of the party in power , which include : |
| 23 | We tend to think of cruelty as incorporating violence , but equally cruel is the father who constantly belittles his son or daughter in front of others . |
| 24 | Even in my time we tend to think of aliens … you know , people from Outer Space ? as being so much in advance of our own civilization . |
| 25 | Demons are real , I believe , but the moment we try to literalise them — describe their shape and detail their habits — we tend to slip into fantasy . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's difficult to go on that sort of holiday now we 've got Emily and we tend to stick to Europe , ’ says Mary Jane . |
| 27 | We never have and never will — and we hate riding in limos . |
| 28 | This is the same as saying that reality can be altered by perception , and that the problem will go away if we cease to think of Germany as a country . |
| 29 | People throughout the world seem to admire these institutions , and far more than we appear to do in Britain . |
| 30 | We appear to share with chimpanzees a strong rooting of emotional cries in the limbic system — the so-called ‘ emotional ’ brain . |