Example sentences of "we [verb] a large [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our first minor disagreement of this kind came when we met a large puddle on a woodland track and Skipper decided he could n't possibly get his feet wet . |
| 2 | We review a large range of the box filters currently available for the smaller pond . |
| 3 | To summarise , we used a large lexicon and a sizeable number of utterances , to test an heuristic which preferred long words over short ones , and found that the strategy reduced the number of word paths in all cases . |
| 4 | In Lewis Carroll 's Alice in Wonderland we encounter a large cat , lying on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear . |
| 5 | So , as you can see for such a small number of people , we cover a large area , also some very diverse subjects . |
| 6 | ‘ After the man involved died we paid a large lump sum to his — ’ |
| 7 | Maundy Thursday we pitched a large trailer tent at Longridge to use as our base for the weekend . |
| 8 | ‘ We get a large proportion of our funding from the CEC and we obtain money from the Department of Trade and Industry 's LINK programme for collaborative research ventures . ’ |
| 9 | Erm , now , the the third thing was about the training program , just to reiterate where we are on this , that if a request is made for personal development training in the current year , if you remember we , if we identify training needs that that we as management identify , that people need in order to do there present job , and then that takes absolute priority and we should get on and do those , but we get a large number of requests where people erm are , saying that they like to do things which they do n't need to do , but which they think will better equip them , and if they 're , if we 're getting any new requests this year with an expectation that further expenditure will be sought in the next financial year , that 's ninety four , five , then that request will be refused , in other words we ca , we do not see our way to committing ourselves to any |
| 10 | ‘ We needed a large amount of seismic data turned round very fast , ’ says Keith Nunn , manager , Seismic Quality , XFI . |
| 11 | At King Saud Mosque , Jeddah , we covered a large courtyard with an opening lightweight metal roof . |
| 12 | We observe a large number of these white dwarf stars . |
| 13 | We use a large body of new evidence to argue that previous work has underestimated or neglected |
| 14 | ‘ We took a large number and distributed them house to house in the various towns in which we operate . |
| 15 | Finally , on 16th June , 1703 , we saw a large island with a small piece of land joined to it . |
| 16 | If we ask a large sample of managers to rank these six goal categories in terms of their relative importance to them ( on a scale from unimportant to very important , the aggregated responses for each goal providing a range from 0 to 100 ) then we can produce the bar chart shown in Figure 1.1 . |
| 17 | The light westerly breeze strengthened as we travelled north and we hoisted a large mainsail , borrowed from our 32-foot cutter which set well on Viking 's stubby mast and gave us an extra knot . |
| 18 | ‘ We leave a large question mark over Roy 's future , ’ said editor Dave Hunt , who hinted that the accident could see Roy 's 16-year-old son Rocky sprint to stardom as the main character in a new comic . |
| 19 | If we divide a large key by an appropriate number — probably dictated by the file storage area — and use the remainder as an address , this will provide a precise method of fitting addresses to available storage . |
| 20 | If we take a large firm to be one employing more than 1000 and a small one less than 100 , the latter in 1985 employed 15 times as many people in the private sector as a whole and five times as many in manufacturing . |
| 21 | We had a large factory at Bournville employing about ten thousand people and there were a great many incentive payment schemes , so that became my job . |
| 22 | ‘ We had a large colony of Nazis living in the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | We had a large table and Dad would lay them out in rows to cool , tuck their heads under their wings and put pieces of heather in between them . |
| 24 | In the year we had a large number of retirements ; Danny Davies , Gwyn Bowen , Dudley Powell and Harry Nelson from Ffos Las ; George Collis , Ritchie Williams and Vernon Williams from Gilfach Iago and John Kilkenny from Potatopot . |
| 25 | We had a large car — a Humber , with leopardskin seat covers . |
| 26 | For the rest of the day we skirted a large swamp ; that night the mosquitoes were particularly bad . |
| 27 | It continues : ‘ We have a large port operator who is prepared to invest in ( and operate ) the port , and the development will also attract a substantial grant from the UK government . ’ |
| 28 | We have judges to decide punishments for criminals , and we have a large army , which can not be defeated by any other in the world . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We have a large proportion of ethnic minority citizens . |
| 30 | We have one of th we have a la we have a large jar of coffee of that a week , and we have er a jar and a half of jam a week . |