Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nah then , how are we goin' to get across this bloody river ? ’ the Mayor inquired . |
| 2 | We remain committed to that . |
| 3 | I know it is n't easy but erm I think we should you know , try and we advertise starting at eight o'clock and very often there 's only Alan and I here at eight . |
| 4 | It 's become a truism that we despise ageing in this culture , and I see few signs of that abating . |
| 5 | The nuts we eat come from one of two species , the black walnut ( Juglans nigra ) and the English or Persian , walnut ( J. regia , which comes originally from Iran ) . |
| 6 | But in terms of actual control , we have forsworn many other areas where hitherto we sought to control by centralized edict . |
| 7 | What we intend to do in this chapter is discuss the inferential structure that forms the backbone of many of the methods of data collection currently in use . |
| 8 | ‘ We will not develop the business where there is no emphasis on quality , and we intend to continue in that framework . |
| 9 | The alternative explanation , involving a change in the rate of momentum loss through electromagnetic radiation or particle outflow might be accompanied by an observable change in the radiation pattern or the braking index ; we intend to search for these in our continued monitoring programme . |
| 10 | So starting with television , we said at the er , announcement of the Doulton , Camco demerger that we intended to develop further in the visual media , and so we are setting up a T D , T V division in which we 'll place all of our T V interests , at present just Thames , the investment in B Sky B and er , Yorkshire Tyne Tees , but watch this space , we e we intend to add to this er , division . |
| 11 | The TV items are being selected on the criteria of level of interest and validity as examples of authentic spoken English ie. we tend to go for ordinary people speaking to camera rather than voice over or straight presentation to camera . |
| 12 | ‘ I think we tend to take up most of his engineering ideas . |
| 13 | During counselling we tend to talk about physical symptoms . |
| 14 | We tend to think of joint finance , in the English context , as involving the district health authority , but there is a range of agencies — from the highest level in the NHS down to the family practitioner committees — who must have a part to play in planning community services and of course in supporting community services . |
| 15 | Although we tend to think of industrial effluent , sewage is a more important source of pollution . |
| 16 | We tend to think of these beautiful insects as being very brightly coloured but when I began experimenting I was unable to get convincing results . |
| 17 | We tend to think of most Central American countries as somehow linked by the Caribbean Sea to the Caribbean islands and cultures ; but all the republics have Pacific coastlines — and so Guatemala , El Salvador , Honduras ( with a scant 45 miles of Pacific shoreline along the Gulf of Fonseca ) , Nicaragua , Costa Rica and of course Panama can rightly ( if pedantically ) be thought of as Pacific nations . |
| 18 | We tend to think of light as being in some way ‘ different ’ from the other forms of radiation , but this is misleading . |
| 19 | Er being on the dole and having friends who were long term on the dole , we tend to buy from each other a lot . |
| 20 | As children we tend to work on this and practise asking for what we want at every available opportunity . |
| 21 | Broad-front exploration is expensive and tedious so we tend to look for some key factor that will simplify the task . |
| 22 | And so we tend to wobble between these two extremes in seeing our uniqueness . |
| 23 | Now the curious thing was that if you looked at the early atmosphere , the molecules in that were the molecules that we expected to see in interstellar space . |
| 24 | I met Franklin in 1934 when my parents gave me a trip to England ; we became engaged in 1936 and were married in 1939 . |
| 25 | We became known at that time as a labour school and still later , we were known as a farmer-labour school . |
| 26 | So really , if we got shot of all that cos really , you want to make another hatch |
| 27 | We pulled into Coventry police station and instead of going to a cafe , as we had hoped , we got shut in one cell and left there for about two hours with the most revolting sandwiches you 've ever seen in your life . |
| 28 | We got transferred to another old council house , it was very damp , but it was a new start , and I decided that if he wanted some responsibility , OK the tenancy could be in his name . |
| 29 | living with that and then when we got rid of that purple carpet |
| 30 | Yes it would be nice if we were , we got rid of that . |