Example sentences of "we [vb base] [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She says : ‘ We tend to concentrate on weaknesses . |
| 3 | The Maggot flew me back , because if we want to leave on Sunday morning then we 've got a heap of work to do first . |
| 4 | ‘ We want to impress on people that they are contravening the law if they moor or make fast to navigation aids , ’ says Howard Cooper , a spokesman for Trinity House . |
| 5 | Er , we have some points that we want taken on board such as the relevance of CPMs in the primary care team each team and that sort of thing but I do n't think they are fundamental differences , they are , as I say , dialogues towards consensus . |
| 6 | Now on that point , for access someone now needs to pick up and write effectively a simple this is how we project planning on access . |
| 7 | We seem to live on tea and more tea until the next cup of tea comes round do n't we ? |
| 8 | ‘ I need lots of bums in beds here at Crystal Springs , Michael , so the sooner we get moving on sales and promotion , the better . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If we get eliminated on Sunday I could have come over straight away . |
| 10 | Your appraisal will include an overall performance mark , which we use to decide on increases in your pay for the following year . |
| 11 | The success of the Day-to-Day programme lies in the fact that we try to stay on top of the news . ’ |
| 12 | On the other hand , you will have gathered already that we are going to talk about Greater York , so I think there may be some distinct benefit and merit in you being he here to listen to that , er particular part of the topic , now the , I hope in fact that we can deal with the remainder of H One , because it it does lead quite logically into the next issue which we want to talk about , which is the new settlement in the Greater York area , er and I hope that we can get through this item by our morning break , that but whenever we do conclude on H One we will have to have a slightly longer break just to enable the seating arrangements to be sorted out properly for all participants who are involved in the discussion on the new settlement . |
| 13 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 14 | ‘ We wish to sleep on board and we wish to remain close to the reef . |
| 15 | Th erm , the the other one that came up was erm , er and even Anne agreed that er , smoking if you must smoke is is for adults , not for children , now how do you erm , we 've we 've touched on advertising , is there anything else that might be done to dissuade children from smoking ? |
| 16 | Jim there 's a Despatches programme on Channel Four next week where some of the work that we 've done on B S E is fea featured and my colleague 's been through it as well . |
| 17 | On the criteria we 've been talking about today , so find yourself a partner that you have n't worked with today somebody erm if you go in the same group that Kathy 's in because then if it comes up to four o'clock Kathy wants to go then you can be the other partner you 've got half an hour to put on one sheet of paper clearly and concisely what we 've done on communications . |
| 18 | We 've danced on stage with Pete and Michaela and we got to meet Aswad . ’ |
| 19 | Er We 've worshipped on holiday at nine thirty . |
| 20 | We 've gone on stage and played with fractures , abscesses , ulcers , deaf ears , smashed fingers , stitches , whiplash . |
| 21 | And they 've hopefully they 're gon na come and see us , to seek our advice on the design techniques that we 've used on East Coast Main Line , and the construction techniques with particular regard to bridges . |
| 22 | we 've settled on P three , erm the seven two O five one is the one that 's been designed out . |
| 23 | WE 'VE IMPROVED ON PERFECTION |
| 24 | If you decided that you 're really only interested in long priced horses because you wanted win a large sum of money , so you only started looking at horses that were offered at fifty to one or longer odds than that , then if you look at the statistics then you 'll find that the rate of return on such bets is even lower than the rate of return that we 've quoted on football pools , but on the other hand if you look at horses which are offered , say , at odds-on or at very low odds , evens , two to one and things like that , then the rate of return is pretty close to a hundred per cent of your money . |
| 25 | We 've worked on building up handwriting . |
| 26 | And certainly you know I mean Yona 's list now of support for this next rally we 've got on March the first is huge I mean it 's sort of and that 's not gon na go away is it you know I mean next year I do n't know what we 're gon na be up to but hopefully we 'll be supporting somebody else in their er struggle for fair play and that network will obviously come into play you know I mean I 've we 've been South Wales have said , Oh you know these are all our contacts you know some of the women in South Wales and in Deeside they 've said these are all our contacts and these are the people that were good and did the work and got the leaflets out and brought the money in you know and it 's as simple as that really you know . |
| 27 | Chair , it was one officer whom we 've got on staff at the moment Karen Wheeler who 's away nursing her new baby , and it 's to authorize that officer to carry out certain roles under the health and safety |
| 28 | We 've picked on Tank Farm for the simple reason |
| 29 | We 've concentrated on market share , we 've been exercising cost reductions and we 've been continuing with investment . |
| 30 | we 've concentrated on York and Greater York for the moment |