Example sentences of "we [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We fought at close range , not more than twenty steps apart , and drove the soldiers back upon their main lines , leaving their dead in our hands . |
| 2 | One community leader told Sunday Life last week : ‘ We met with senior NIO officials and expressed the opinion that unless something was done for Protestant areas there would be a backlash from paramilitaries . |
| 3 | The ways in which we communicate in face-to-face interaction can be summarised like this : |
| 4 | ‘ This is in reply to a request we made of Greek Intelligence for as exhaustive a list as they could supply of all places where Andropulos is known either to do business or have contacts . |
| 5 | ‘ You know that we insist on complete loyalty , ’ Madame Mattli continued . |
| 6 | As in all active sports you pick up bumps and bruises , so we insist on medical insurance . |
| 7 | But you do collect bumps and bruises falling off windsurfers , so we insist on medical insurance . |
| 8 | It ignores the obvious discriminations which we make between similar treatment of different species within the animal kingdom . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman has not grasped the fact that any progress that we make on improving animal welfare in Europe has to be on a Europeanwide basis . |
| 10 | But I remember only too well the time when we had nothing in the bank and we lived in rented property because we 'd sold our home to keep me racing . |
| 11 | The war was an anxious time , for the daily newspapers were filled with the lists of men killed in the battles in France , and we lived in daily dread of the routine telegram from the War Office . |
| 12 | ( Martin et al , 1987 ) It also confirmed what we already knew — that no amount of keep-fit exercises and high fibre would improve our health as long as we lived in damp housing conditions and a polluting environment . |
| 13 | Other methodological issues can not be solved in this straightforward fashion : reality is not wholly determinate , so there are statements with the property that no long-run agreement on their truth or falsity can be expected , so when are we justified in continuing inquiry into a question which may , for all we know , have no answer ? |
| 14 | We got on real well and I had a lot of fun that week . |
| 15 | Once on board , I took a look below , where many men folk were as comfortably spread on the saloon sofas as circumstances would permit , and finding a vacant space sufficiently large to stretch my full complement of feet and inches on , I tried to fall asleep before we got into rough water ; but with the first movement of the screw , I was on my feet and on deck , having a view of the hills round Gairloch as they slept in the mist of night ere the faint streaks of dawn disturbed their repose . |
| 16 | The further we got into basic training the more obsessive I got about it . |
| 17 | We got to Styal mid-afternoon . |
| 18 | However , even when we concentrate on fixed investment in manufacturing , no single theory ‘ explains ’ much of the variation in investment . |
| 19 | Of course , as the Oxford philosophers always say , it all depends upon what we mean by political union . |
| 20 | Before turning to these — set out in two stages ( see below , pp. 93 – 106 ) — we need to be clear what we mean by reflective thinking , and that pupils can do it . |
| 21 | This is another way of saying that we need some good way of defining exactly what we mean by true braininess . |
| 22 | Well wha wha wha what do you think we mean by functional group isomerism ? |
| 23 | What we mean by abstract identification is that semantic and phonological properties of the word are not specified by the output of the visual word-recognition system . |
| 24 | Had we relied on public sector finance , it would have been another century before we had such an opportunity for British industry , with all the infrastructure back-up that will flow from it . |
| 25 | It looked like a Hollywood film stunt — until we realized with chilling certainty that none of us anywhere near the petrol-pump would have survived if the truck had gone up . |
| 26 | In addition to the weight we gain from careless reliance on fatty foods , it also contributes to high cholesterol levels ( see above ) . |
| 27 | as if this were n't enough , we bounced on oversized ball , wielded staves for posture , learnt national dances and songs , explored the mediaeval charms of Coburg and neighbouring Bamberg or wallowed in the thermal baths of Rodach — and of course consumed enormous and excellent meals at the college , supplemented with German cakes in the town ( not to mention German wine … — . |
| 28 | We can only experience God 's happiness for ourselves when we grow in contemplative prayer . |
| 29 | They have the same four basic options we described for general ownership policy : state ownership ; specific support for or discrimination against locals or foreigners ; or neutrality . |
| 30 | ‘ It is time we moved for concerted action to liberate the press from these laws . ’ |