Example sentences of "we [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fact is , ’ wrote Clark himself on 15 August , ‘ that if we lose out in the Middle East , we shall be immediately destroyed . ’ |
| 2 | He relaxed with a happy grunt , and we lay peacefully for a bit longer . |
| 3 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 4 | We lay together under the gold |
| 5 | I was beginning to become impatient as we lay about on the sand for several hours waiting our turn to go aboard one of the tank-landing craft , after it had discharged its cargo . |
| 6 | He sees consciousness as a more subtle form of matter and movement and the source of what we perceive both of the external world and of ourselves , our so-called inner processes lying in the non-manifest , pre-physical realm . |
| 7 | ‘ We want to give each company the opportunity to develop strategies for new product development to ensure that we remain ahead of the competition in each area of business . |
| 8 | We Repeat regardless of the ADF aspect , this accident should never have happened . |
| 9 | We grumble home between the grim rigs . |
| 10 | Well sir , they 're , we support dipping because it 's already been stated to note that we make most of the money for Shropshire from farming , and sheep is one of the big things which we sell all over the country , but unless we can guarantee our sheep are clear of er , disease people are n't going to come here and buy meat and stuff are they ? |
| 11 | If we push down on the canvas by putting a heavy object on it we create a dent . |
| 12 | Though these constraints can be decisive in some ways , we concentrate here on the economic policies and some of the more specific policies like price controls that affect the investment climate for multinationals . |
| 13 | The latter , as the title suggests , deals solely with taxation , and we concentrate here on the Musgrave study , which covers both taxes and public spending . |
| 14 | If we concentrate only on the mythological representations and personifications of evil , we too easily relegate the Devil to our private worlds of personal torments and individual temptations . |
| 15 | We are taken through the political and social development of a country which the US regards as its gateway to South America — and we wind up in a situation little different from the past in which an elite group monopolized economic and political power . |
| 16 | So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’ |
| 17 | We sit around for a bit , chatting . |
| 18 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |
| 19 | Over supper we sit down in the low evening sun and watch the hills change from one blue to another , to mauve , to grey , to black . |
| 20 | We sit together in the wooden booth . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't suppose we sit out in the sun above twice a year . |
| 22 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |
| 23 | On the other hand of course it 's the old old story , it 's like some of the other competitions which we endure rather in the early stages , when you think of the Freight Rover and er one or two others as well . |
| 24 | As children , we grow up with the lovely stories in which animals really are people : The Wind in the Willows , Just so Stories , Watership Down . |
| 25 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 26 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 27 | What I do n't like is that we went back did n't we , I do n't know if you saw my thing to David where we report back on a fax , report every month |
| 28 | Humans talk and talk , but there is only one of them who truly understands the battle we wage here against the dark — though we fight for their sake as much as ours ! |
| 29 | But by the time you were born I could n't give up Other world ; I was deep in the battle we wage here against the powers of the dark , and to leave it would have been deserting . |
| 30 | → Of course we apologise unreservedly for the error contained in Tony Iommi 's interview . |