Example sentences of "we [vb base] [adv prt] in [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't suppose we sit out in the sun above twice a year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The French are just laughing at us as we stumble around in a fog . ’ |
| 9 | She was the type of young woman who loves danger ; and she insisted that we lie down in the entrance way to a park . |
| 10 | What we loose out in the winter we gain extra in the summer in the summer time . |
| 11 | The men and women we read about in the Bible have aspirations and failings with which we easily identify , and even the heroes of Scripture are displayed in the cold light of truth . |
| 12 | The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars . |
| 13 | If ever we wake up in the morning and feel that this is just ‘ another day to get through ’ , then our life is painfully stuck — and it is fear and limiting beliefs which are keeping us stuck . |
| 14 | When we draw up in a pitch-black stonewalled alley I wonder about his reaction . |
| 15 | Once again we set out in the pre-dawn walk through the forest , the amble across the alpine pastures , and the short struggle up the screes to the foot of the wall . |
| 16 | As we set out in the truck which was going to take us the eight miles to Oakington , I was conscious that for once I was really looking my absolute best . |
| 17 | At nine o'clock that night we set out in the pouring rain , our car packed with people and stores of food , picking our way through lorries , mules and men on foot . |
| 18 | Although Johnson twice found the hillocky little town lacking — ‘ At night we came to Bamff [ sic ] , where I remember nothing that particularly claimed my attention ’ ; and ‘ Finding nothing to detain us at Bamff , we set out in the morning ’ — he yet managed to write a short exercise in observation of Scottish small borough architecture . |
| 19 | we set down in a passing-place and basked |
| 20 | Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens . |
| 21 | We set off in the sunshine and quickly reached Snake Pass |
| 22 | We set off in an open 15-cwt. truck with an Italian driver who had also been a soldier , two Schmeisser machine pistols and a lot of ammunition ; the mountains at that time were infested with bandits , some of whom were Allied and Axis deserters . |
| 23 | When we get up in the morning , we put on our socks , then our shoes . |
| 24 | The difference in our height changes between the time we get up in the morning and the time we go to bed at night . |
| 25 | When we get up in the morning |
| 26 | We get down in the darkness and from time to time we pull the wire . |
| 27 | And so we end up in the paradox of a system which invokes the criterion of historical consciousness as a means for distinguishing the ‘ primitive ’ from the , civilized' but — contrary to its claim — is itself ahistorical . |
| 28 | And then for the third leg of our erm Radio Oxford yankee , we go over in the tenth race , the nine forty eight . |
| 29 | We go out in the day together , we try to go to town once a week , and every Sunday we go to my aunty 's house . |
| 30 | We shall do them before we go out in the morning |