Example sentences of "we [vb base] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We want nothing but the best , as befits our new status as full partners in Europe . ’ |
| 2 | We want to know their opinion of the band so that if we sign the group , we hope everyone in the company will like the artist 's work and try to promote it as well as possible . |
| 3 | When we cover something in the lesson , you need to go over it yourself , |
| 4 | In this example we initialize the index register to zero and , on each iteration of the loop , we add one to the value held by the index register before executing the add instruction . |
| 5 | We meet plenty in the course of our duties . ’ |
| 6 | Bad when we meet someone at the station , but unbearable when we are seeing them off ; not present when we are departing ourselves , but unbearable when arriving in London , if only from a day in Brighton . ’ |
| 7 | Of missions sent by Roman bishops beyond the imperial frontiers we hear nothing until the sixth century . |
| 8 | However we know nothing of the background of Anna 's marriage which may be a great contributing factor to her eternal unhappiness . |
| 9 | We know nothing about the gearing devices involved , but the associated mathematical calculations may have been contained in a lost treatise of Archimedes On sphere making , that is on modelling the heavens . |
| 10 | Unfortunately we know nothing about the predecessors of Spartokos , nor can archaeology help much , and we can not say whether dynastic troubles in the 450s might have caused shortages on the Athenian grain market ; the seizure of power by the Spartokids is too late to be relevant . |
| 11 | Clovis 's campaigns and ruses against other Frankish rulers should perhaps be seen as power struggles within a small kin-group , and therefore as precursors of the civil wars that were to follow , but we know nothing about the connections between the petty kings of the years prior to 511 . |
| 12 | We know something of the ways in which ‘ huskers ’ and amateur street performers were progressively controlled and eventually almost eliminated from the cities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 13 | We know something about the views of Mr. Bickerstaffe because he gave a substantial interview to the New Statesman and Society recently . |
| 14 | From collections of legal formulae we know something about the local archives of a city , in which wills and other actions were registered , and we find various officials , the defensor , curator , magister militum and other members of the local curia being called upon to open the archives for the registration of new grants , but we have Formularies only from a small number of civitates , and their contents are not often datable , except to the period before the ninth century , when most of them were written down . |
| 15 | And then she suggested we get one in the country as well . |
| 16 | But , if the idea is that , in understanding the rules governing action , we understand everything about the actors , then one may wish to demur . |
| 17 | That we close everything on the on the phone . |
| 18 | Interpet 's clever device lets you change water without spilling a drop — we use one in the office . |
| 19 | We think someone in the community is protecting the killer and we want to be sure we 've spoken to everyone |
| 20 | Chairman , we have something on the agenda . |
| 21 | But with the sales of that are going on , there are needs to move tenants around and make alterations to boundaries and buildings , as we split up holdings , so I would say Chair , it 's essential that we have something in the kitty to do this work , I mean , it 's obviously far exceeded by the capital receipts that the revue is generating . |
| 22 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 23 | We tend to view ourselves as physical beings only and to deny that we have anything in the way of a soul or spirit . |
| 24 | Crime is nearly unknown among our people , and we have none of the means or experience to pursue it . |
| 25 | The main problem with proving this theory is that , while we have a relative abundance of fossils of human ancestors from the east of the Rift , we have none from the west . |
| 26 | We already have a car , motor cycle and bicycle lined up , but we need someone for the bus and train . |
| 27 | And who knows what may come of Labour 's long-overdue admission that we need someone in the cabinet specifically to fight our corner ? |
| 28 | We look at the face and , like looking at the Cheshire Cat , we see nothing beyond the smile ! |
| 29 | If we see something on the side of the road , and we think the horse may shy at it , and we look at it very hard and carefully , the horse tends to be less likely to shy . |
| 30 | DO N'T say we in Northern Ireland do n't know a future winner when we see one in the motor cycling game . |