Example sentences of "we [vb base] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The one thing we regret about the move is that we ca n't still get HTV . |
| 2 | She-She : " If you give the fifty cash , then seventy-five on the card plus the credit supplement which is 15 per cent else we lose on the rental or we have a spa-cheque policy which works out the same minus the 15 per cent with a ten-dollar supplement . |
| 3 | We do it that colour for now , and after we get open and organized , we change to the colour of my choice . ’ |
| 4 | Well we we ca n't say o overall but we started in a very small way but on average Dennis we raise in the region of two thousand pounds a year . |
| 5 | We crash to the ground and roll fighting down the slope . |
| 6 | We lay on the brink of its descent and rolled quickly downwards , our faces full of earth and grass one instant and then rotating madly and finally up to the brazen blue sky leaking through the trees . |
| 7 | It was so hot we lay on the floor and watched the wheeling and turning of the planes and the occasional flare-up which told of a kill . |
| 8 | We danced , we drank , we lay on the beach telling stories . |
| 9 | Instead , we lay on the bed together , embracing , mouth to mouth . |
| 10 | ‘ We lay on the ground and kissed . |
| 11 | We all found him interesting , so when we lay in the sun after lunch , the white gravel covering our backs with powdery marks , his fighting demonstrations were keenly attended . |
| 12 | We had agreed not to talk about fitting-out problems and we lay in the sun drinking from the bottle Iain had humped up in his backpack . |
| 13 | With perfect buoyancy we lay in the current , drifting at no mean speed through the long fronds of kelp , angling our bodies to follow the curves of the bottom . |
| 14 | We lay in the spring wind |
| 15 | What had come to the poets in their most serene or passionate moments we glided into as easily as we gathered flowers for Maud or Blanche or Mabel , as we lay in the grass with our eyes divided between the books , the land and the clouds . |
| 16 | We lay in the grass looking up at the sky and the fluttering leaves on the silver birch trees , sucking on our reed stalks and talking about girls . |
| 17 | But we can not explain why this is always objectionable , so long as we remain on the plane of justice as I have defined it . |
| 18 | ‘ Why , that 's no great problem while we remain at the abbot 's lodging , since half of Shrewsbury and a good part of the shire goes in and out freely at the abbey , and you may ask an audience whenever you will , and always find yourself one of three or four , various enough to keep any man in countenance . |
| 19 | In short , we remain with the division between sectors of the economy — between manufacturing and service industries — and between enterprises in the economy — between service companies and institutions . |
| 20 | However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled . |
| 21 | What we bring to the rite of Mass can draw out from it our response to God 's grace and friendship . |
| 22 | In the first place , we all need to mourn for our own sins and for the negative contribution we bring into the world . |
| 23 | He will not really be able to do that , however , because he will be obliged to stand at the Opposition Dispatch Box and commend any guillotine motion that we bring before the House on the basis that the Labour Government are faithfully following the precedent of 13 years of Tory government . |
| 24 | If we care , we suffer with the other . |
| 25 | we concede on the basis of the exercises that have been discussed so far , I think you will find it very difficult to make a firm recommendation in favour of a specific location. , albeit on a district basis . |
| 26 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 27 | We repair to the kitchen and blithely set off the burglar alarm searching for the cat to cuddle . |
| 28 | He has no method , or if we insist on the word , a different method for each child . |
| 29 | And we si and we sing it upstairs and she goes wandering up the stairs and we hide in the airing cupboard ! |
| 30 | Well we eat on the boat as well , pasta salad . |