Example sentences of "we [verb] the [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We passed the last houses , the last streetlights . |
| 2 | We report the first results from a study designed to evaluate the effects of the NHS reforms in general practices and hospitals in the Oxford region . |
| 3 | At the same time we find the first attempts to develop certain overseas areas as specialist producers of such exports to the ‘ developed ’ world — indigo and jute in Bengal , tobacco in Colombia , coffee in Brazil and Venezuela , not to mention cotton in Egypt , etc . |
| 4 | As we approach the last years of the 20th century , environmental damage to the earth , air and water threaten the basic resources on which we depend . ’ |
| 5 | Then we did a show 1935–55 in which we included the first Americans and quite a few British artists , since they were fairly late going into constructivism . |
| 6 | JTR had chickened out and was travelling south - ‘ we saw the first snows fall before we left … ’ — to write up his chapter retrospectively on previous rambles in Skye , for some obscure reason . |
| 7 | At last , in the far distance , we glimpsed the first lights of Salamanca . |
| 8 | Then , for the following one we bought the first meals on wheels van so that with all the money that we 've collected for Harlow day we bought something out of the money . |
| 9 | By learning to listen , by switching our attention to our inner world , we take the first steps towards creating joy and success in our lives . |
| 10 | But as the tenth century was turning into the eleventh we have the first signs of a new outlook . |
| 11 | Now we have the Next Steps initiative and the Citizen 's Charter Unit . |
| 12 | In the fourteenth century mystical awakening we see the first signs of a deeper and more committed type of religion , which would finally culminate in both Protestant and Catholic reformations . |