Example sentences of "we [vb base] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If we push down on the canvas by putting a heavy object on it we create a dent . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | We sit around for a bit , chatting . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't suppose we sit out in the sun above twice a year . |
| 11 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that on 15 May 1983 he said : ’ We want out of the Common Market ? ’ |
| 17 | The canal 's over that-a-way , but if we head over towards the old brickworks- ’ She unlocked a huge padlock which fastened the gates . |
| 18 | So what are your plans in the next year or two as we head up towards the next winter Olympics ? |
| 19 | We head back to the apartment only when the day folds in around us for good . |
| 20 | When we 're talking to the people on the phone we home in on a thousand pound . |
| 21 | Only when we catch up with the Americans in this respect shall I feel comfortable ’ — Vadim Tumanov , displaced Soviet politician , reflecting on his first trip to the US . |
| 22 | We catch up with the latest exploits on the portable front in Living with a Notebook . |
| 23 | Once , before starting a new stage in the story , we catch up on the other branch of the family . |
| 24 | We gear up amongst the debris of ascents earlier in the week , thankful that we 're first to the route today . |
| 25 | We walk over to a dusty square where over a hundred women , migrants from the countryside and recently closed state mines , are digging and paving with picks and shovels . |
| 26 | The moment we walk out into the sun to play we all break out into a heavy sweat . |
| 27 | When we walk out of the forest into the candlelights of the lodge , the forest moves into our spaces like the sea into scoops of sand . |
| 28 | We walk down to the shore in the warm drizzling rain and wait at the quayside . |
| 29 | We walk back through the park and disperse : tonight they 're going to a party , it 's Paul from The Soup Dragons ’ birthday . |
| 30 | He laughs again , and as the light is fading we walk back to the village , past small boys running hurdy-gurdies ; he teaching me plant names for which I can find no translation . |