Example sentences of "we [vb base] [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a press conference on Jan. 21 the new PS first secretary , Fabius , called for a " mobilization " against the National Front and declared : " We intend making the struggle against the far right … one of the central pillars of our activities . " |
| 2 | As we sit watching the sparks going up , and as we inhale the fragrant smoke , we are inclined to become philosophical or to sing nostalgic songs … |
| 3 | In interpreting ideas and behaviour in societies which others might characterize as ‘ peaceful ’ , we suggest abandoning the focus on the lack of something called ‘ aggression ’ ( or violence ) and the construction of theories that attempt to account for this ‘ anomalous ’ absence . |
| 4 | February the twenty eighth , end of February , yeah , my Lord so of course erm staying the counterclaim as a set off would n't really progress much further because after eighty five , I mean that 's simply a subsidiary way in which the defence arises , article eighty five arises primarily because we say underlying the arrangements are void and you 're enforcing something , which is void and you ca n't do it , that 's not a set off claim , but your Lordship I mean , my Lord that 's why that does n't really get them any further , my Lord they 've always had outstanding , which they 've never pursued er for order fourteen so they can always ti try as they said they will for the other erm , erm preemptive attacks upon us |
| 5 | It was Rosalind Garton , the last student to qualify from Scotland , now with flourishing classes in St Andrews , who we say extolling the virtues of Medau on BBC television 's ‘ The Garden Party ’ in 1990 . |
| 6 | The piles are driven down from above into the swamp , but not down to any natural or ‘ given ’ base ; and if we stop driving the piles deeper , it is not because we have reached firm ground . |
| 7 | If we consider starting the endowment here but presumably gon na run twenty-five years in fact you 're gon na finish in year twenty-three when they borrowed the money , are n't they , so they 've only borrowed the money for twenty-three years . |
| 8 | This also comes into being as we couple reading the Bible with prayer . |
| 9 | If we anticipate reversing the fact that much of our population holidays abroad , so that instead we have more people from overseas holidaying with us , a straightforward reversal of where the money is spent would beneficially affect the foreign exchange by £1,600 million . |
| 10 | Now , when I say hello to the audience before we begin recording the show , I point to the chairs , and say : ‘ Elizabeth Taylor sat here , and Michael Caine sat here , and Oliver Reed was all along there … . ’ |
| 11 | Now he 's tried to shift the responsibility , and that 's something we 're all good at doing , we like shifting the responsibility , whether it 's in even the very tiny things in life , or whether it 's major issues , we like to shift the responsibility to other people , then if it goes wrong we 're alright , our hands are clean , we we 'll have nothing to do with it . |
| 12 | He says it 's the thin end of the wedge and once they ban motorised vehicles , they 'll probably then turn their attention to cyclists and horse-riders — and obviously we like using the Ridgeway . |
| 13 | If we continue supplying the Reds , we will be helping them more than the Blues . |
| 14 | We keep taking the tablets … |
| 15 | So if your resistance stays the same and we keep increasing the voltage at some stage you say ooh it feels tingly |
| 16 | So let's catch up with all the action as we go spinning the globe . |
| 17 | Yeah , cos er , I think Neil was telling you that , they look as if they 're gon na be buying plenty of gas off us if we , when we start taking the air products . |
| 18 | They wo n't love , let's , let's , let's get it over with see what 's happening before we start jumping the gun , throws in if there 's any good we 'll have them |
| 19 | ‘ We 're going to see an increase in bullying , exclusions and truancy unless we start tackling the problems at their root . |
| 20 | If we fail in these duties we know that we risk forfeiting the protection of your spirit and all the spirits of our nation 's past heroes . |
| 21 | ‘ I believe that if we deal with both of these subjects in one such conference we risk overloading the boat . ’ |
| 22 | Once we start encouraging member states to sign declarations of intent , we risk undermining the integrity and force of the treaty documents and obligations . |
| 23 | Now since must be expressible as a function of we have using the summation convention . |
| 24 | If Alison Sargent had n't become a chartered accountant , it may well have been her , and not Michael Fish , that we see reading the weather forecast every evening . |
| 25 | Obviously all the planets that we see orbiting the sun must be travelling at exactly the right speed to keep them in their orbits , or we would n't see them there because they would n't be there ! |
| 26 | Some of us avoid using the word 1 . |