Example sentences of "we [vb base] [pers pn] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if we make it a decent team — people who are good at — at swimming and riding and all … ’ |
| 2 | We are inundated with relatives we encourage it and we make it a special time . |
| 3 | They have asked that we give them a similar quantity from each department . |
| 4 | 6 League Games have been played as to date ( 22.06.93 ) , with 1 draw , 2 wins and 3 losses ( we have to give them some sort of chance before we give them a good thrashing ) . |
| 5 | Oh yeah all the all the hits er like er Bunch of Time and and Maggie and Old Flames and after all these years , if did n't do those you 'd be shot afterwards like but er what we do with the songs that that were like you know hit singles and that people really come to hear we make sure that you know that we do those and then we put in er you know what we think would be the favourite ones from albums and then we add in a sprinkling of the stuff from the new album so you know we give them a good cross-section for an hour and a half and then we have a good first half of the show as well we 've got first half of the show as well and our band go on with him for forty minutes and er they perform as well a few soloists and er then Tony and myself come on and we do an hour and a half and we go right everything we do on stage we have recorded at some time , we do n't do something that we have n't recorded . |
| 6 | We welcome busy people to our home , and we give them a pleasant place to work in . ’ |
| 7 | It is possible to live with wild animals , if we give them a little space . |
| 8 | So we give them a twenty five per cent mark-up , and we reckon that this helps with the whole business of child-care , since we 're not ungenerous in the salaries we pay , fo for the start , adding , by adding twenty five per cent of that , we 're helping . |
| 9 | We give them a three day intensive in in a in fully expensed by us . |
| 10 | We give them a provisional kind of price and not really gone into it in detail . |
| 11 | Sometimes we give them a little canvas pack , or they will fasten on to their keeper 's neck or earlobe , armpit or face . |
| 12 | We give them a little trinket box or a ring holder , it 's traditional , ’ she explains , in a charmingly deliberate Scots Italian voice . |
| 13 | Actually , the speaker that was talking about this was suggesting we give them an enormous amount of real tangible assets , er without it costing us anything . |
| 14 | But one thing , on behalf of the museum services , I would like to thank Doreen Griffiths for the help she gave us in our exhibition , ’ Memories of Change ’ , which you can see in the exhibition room over there , and she contributed a lot of photographs , and her memories , and allowed herself to be taped and have her memories in our archive , and for that we give her a great thank , because it 's not always easy for the , sometimes for the first time to begin talking into a tape-recorder , so we thank her very much , and thank you very much for coming in and performing for us today ! |
| 15 | Erm we give it a bigger force , what happens to the acceleration ? |
| 16 | Here we give you a grim guide through the significant wars and disputes around the globe — and our graphic ( above ) estimates the horrifying total of lives lost in each conflict … so far . |
| 17 | We consider it a great honour for all members of the band and bugles . |
| 18 | We owe them a great deal and can best repay them by finding a political solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | It is fine for many of us , given the privileged lives that we lead ; it is hell for many of our citizens and we owe them a great deal more urgency than is provided by this useful but inadequate measure . |
| 20 | We know you a long time , right ? |
| 21 | We find it a hard , yet meaningful road to travel because it fits in with our experience of life — the disappointments as well as the joys . |
| 22 | ‘ See this as an … interim stage , if you will , while we find you a suitable ‘ donor ’ . |
| 23 | In the same way I was unable to do much else but grin and bear it when my then assistant chief constable ( crime ) , Ken Oxford ( later to be the chief constable of Merseyside ) implicitly restated police concepts of correct bodily order , when he jokingly told a group of visiting journalists who had come to do a story on this wayward group of detectives , ‘ we pay him a plain clothes allowance you know ’ . |
| 24 | In special circumstances we 'll cover some expenses and we pay them a token fee , which a lot of guests donate to charity . |
| 25 | One chair at the bottom of the table was empty , and as I came in Dr Barton , with hardly more than a nod in my direction , indicated the chair and said sternly , ‘ You may sit , Doctor Masters , while we ask you a few questions . ’ |
| 26 | We offer you a comfortable and relaxed holiday or short break for business or pleasure . |
| 27 | The bells here are famous ; the clarion , ‘ We Greet Thee a Thousand Times ’ which is rung at midday was created by the clockmaker , P. Naumann in 1694 . |
| 28 | It does n't matter if we do it a little bit before you do it at school because when you do it you 'll understand then and you can get a lot from it you can ask |
| 29 | the thing is , you see , if we do it an American flavour I mean , people expect heavy rock music in an |
| 30 | ‘ Every time we leave this country , when we come back we love it a whole lot more than when we left , ’ he growls . |