Example sentences of "we [vb base] a [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We expect a lot more customers to take advantage of the price cuts . ’ |
| 2 | And we consume a lot more than our parents did , though the proportion of income we spend on food is just 12pc compared to a third 50 years ago . |
| 3 | We try to keep a part of our lives for something else — to which we give a name such as Recreation or Sport or Being a Mother to the Children or just Being about the House . |
| 4 | ‘ We read a lot these days about school and industry partnerships but I am pleased to say that ‘ partnership ’ is not a new word to us , ’ said Corporate Affairs Director and Company Secretary , Harold Bolter . |
| 5 | Velma called on Monday , erm , because I rang her up on Sunday to tell her what was happening , cos I mean she did n't know it , we signed our contract and erm I said to her well if we get a date this week , I said could , cos she 's going back to Wales tomorrow , she wo n't be back till after Easter |
| 6 | So this example here we might find that that matches that matches we get a response of two from here and we get a response less than the response from here and the same response from this . |
| 7 | Now I 'm hoping we get a bit more of that . |
| 8 | We get a lot more requests for funding than we can fund , and we have to develop priorities . |
| 9 | But we do a lot more than that — and that is what the politicians do n't like . |
| 10 | If we take a document such as a report we can apply the following guidelines . |
| 11 | We take a leg each and drag the man face-down through the ferns towards the northeast end of the hill . |
| 12 | We have a competition each month of various kinds , and this month we 've got to , as we 've got the Dairy Crest , erm representative coming , we are writing a limerick including the word milkman , or something . . |
| 13 | There maybe societies where there is a privilege and inequality , but as long as we have in Britain a system where the head of the state , is head of state because the person inherited the position of being monarch and as long as we have a institution such as the House of Lords . |
| 14 | Erm we , we have of course , we 've got a , we have a congress each year , which erm we , each Guild is allowed to send one delegate and so really , we always stress at the top level that erm you know , it 's you that run the Guild you ca n't blame head office , the Nat National Executive , because you 're the ones who send the people to the top , are n't you ? |
| 15 | Before giving an exposition of these assumptions , we need a bit more terminology : other variables can be causally prior to both X and Y , intervene between X and Y , or ensue from X and Y , as shown in figure 12.2 . |
| 16 | I think we need a bit more discussion on this . |
| 17 | But actually , we need a lot more women employees , in terms of opportunity and advantage to them , at the senior management levels . |