Example sentences of "we [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh we change over like this . |
| 2 | You know , young , homeless people we pick up on this bus and er , we have , we we 've sort of ended up pursuing their cases with the housing department and getting temporary accommodation . |
| 3 | What are the cargoes we pick up at short notice and deliver to out-of-the-way ports in Africa ? |
| 4 | We eat up to ten times the amount of salt we actually need ; on average about two teaspoonfuls a day , half of which is added by manufacturers during food processing . |
| 5 | We make up for this , however , by an almost psychopathic competitiveness . |
| 6 | One of the few areas that we sell out on most match days , and there 's facilities for men and women and we actively develop these areas . |
| 7 | Now , if we round off to three decimal places , we find that F can be written as the unit rank matrix , proportional to unc unc If we now revert to A and postmultiply by unc unc Thus , 1 = 25 . |
| 8 | We 're putting some money away for e expenses , we 've taken up the option to purchase , we 've put in a planning application for change of use , we investigated possible grant applications , we 're investigating future expenditure and income generation , and then we report back to this committee once . |
| 9 | This is the document that we send in with any copy . |
| 10 | We slip out for five minutes and the lot will be sold before we get back . ’ |
| 11 | So we home in on five thousand booklets . |
| 12 | And if if we home in on that then certainly then that 's a nice comfortable seven fifty to eight hundred pound a week . |
| 13 | One of the first things we do , after settling in — we show up at this little garage or car cemetery a few blocks south . |
| 14 | When are we let out of these rooms ? ’ |
| 15 | We cut out from Old Gang across the grouse moor of Lord Peel of Gunnerside Lodge with its shooting butts and its newly cut Land-rover track , a great scar bulldozed across the moor , and followed the path down to Potting . |
| 16 | At the same time , we cut back on proposed capital expenditure and made plans to repay borrowings . |
| 17 | I most grateful to the minister for giving way and it 's good to see the government er at last acknowledging the justice of the amendments to do exactly what we 're proposing now that we put in to most of the committees like the building societies c c c b b bill a and like the banking bill when they were discussing the nineteen eighties but Lord Justice Bingham also recommended er and I quote , the determination of the correct relationship between client , auditor and supervisor raises an issue of policy more appropriate for decision making by parliament than by the bank and the accounting profession . |
| 18 | A familiar disjunction : while we hold on to personal musical favourites dating back over twenty-five years because we still enjoy listening to them , the music which brings on the fiercest nostalgia is often a terrible , loathsome noise with which we think we have nothing in common . |
| 19 | Psychologists believe that we hold on to certain stories because they enable us to make sense of an otherwise confusing world — that we learn through stories and see our way through to maturity with their help . |
| 20 | We share a vast depth of vulnerability which we cover up in different ways . |
| 21 | Like the Friday we break up for half term . |
| 22 | And so , for 500 dense pages , we hang on for grim death as Hughes ' locomotive intelligence hurtles down the track he has set himself . |
| 23 | Anyway , I just thought I 'd write to suggest that we meet up at some point ; I do enjoy trying to get to know some of my cousins , especially when they 're not hundreds of miles away . |
| 24 | We meet up with other units of the Brigade and leave the road to continue the advance through the trees in the direction of small arms and automatic fire ahead . |
| 25 | We kick off with all that at five to one tomorrow . |
| 26 | Unless we face up to that fact , moreover , any discussion of how we can safeguard certain democratic arrangements that we regarded as part of the British ‘ constitution ’ in the past ( e.g. the independence of local government ) or entrench others ( e.g. a Bill of Rights ) against an ‘ elective dictatorship ’ will run into the sand . |
| 27 | But in recognizing the authority of ‘ Be aware ’ as absolute we run up against that imbalance of the organism in the direction of what pleases it , by which it spontaneously expands awareness in one direction by contracting it in others . |
| 28 | And when we run out of local traditions to invent , we can import from abroad . |
| 29 | We look around for white holes and can find none . |
| 30 | Nowadays , when we look back at old photographs and films of the 1950s rock and roll craze , and the Teddy Boys , it is easy to wonder what all the fuss was about . |