Example sentences of "we [vb base] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as soon as we bring up this question … we come up against a ‘ sore subject ’ . |
| 2 | One idea is that we pick up all sorts of information during our waking hours without being consciously aware that we are doing so ; the function of dreaming is to allow our brain to process all this information at the unconscious level . |
| 3 | In section 2.6 we pick up these theories again and examine what they have to say about the shifts currently under way in British manufacturing and its geography . |
| 4 | We continue on heading until we pick up another waypoint , the particular shape of a section of the B1052 , where a very sharp right-hand bend is followed almost immediately by a minor road off to the east and a small hamlet , Brinkley , further north ( J ) . |
| 5 | We can stage a little comedy for ourselves if we pick out two expressions that I used in my last paragraph , and imagine ourselves presenting them to the startled and unwelcoming gaze of Max Beerbohm . |
| 6 | In applying a concept we pick out relevant and reliable features of what we perceive . |
| 7 | We pick out those pieces which match our needs at the time [ My emphasis ] As have most people in the field , this author has participated in this game , using these data for illustration or emphasis in the classroom , as arguments in a paper , or as support in negotiating a budget or a new piece of equipment . |
| 8 | AT ASDA , WE MAKE UP FRESHLY-PREPARED PIZZAS ALL DAY AT OUR PIZZA BAR . |
| 9 | ‘ Because it gives us time to stall them , ’ Roquelaure came back sharply , ‘ until we track down that Arab cartel or locate the missing arms shipment . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Thus we wind up this wonderful year , ’ wrote Horace Walpole on 30 November as the news of Quiberon arrived , the phrase heard on all lips and picked up that Christmas by David Garrick in the aptly named pantomime , Harlequin 's Invasion : |
| 11 | Of course , resort to technology has always been a feature of health care , if we mean by that the development and use of skills and tools . |
| 12 | All much the same to the untutored eye , they bear the names of excited lepidopterists who identified them : Rätzer 's ringlet , de Prunner 's ringlet , Lorkovic 's brassy ringlet — and , in case we grow over confident , false dewy ringlet . |
| 13 | As we suggest in more detail in Chapters 2 and 3 , you will be able to find materials more easily and see the best arrangement for them when you have formed a sense of what you are looking for . |
| 14 | We will have a different attitude , we 'll bear to watch what is happening in competitive tendering and to ask questions and to get the right the facts on competitive tendering because we found a lot of these round the competitive tendering do n't you , do n't you worry and we ai n't finished with it yet I can tell you and also we have ev , the people who are , the in house , walking in the house , have a right to have some protection from it , to see that when we dole out those contracts that it least they are genuine and they 've got a someone to see that that their interest is looked after . |
| 15 | We look forward to an hour 's drive to an appointment , because it 's then that we dust off American Pie or Band On The Run or Led Zeppelin II or London Calling and snap it into our car 's entertainment system . |
| 16 | I give them a hot mash too , as well as letting them scratch about here , we cook up all the scraps in the kitchen . |
| 17 | We send in negative data on our peers — those who are competing with us for more powerful positions . |
| 18 | ‘ So we build up individual patterns of preferred activities which an interviewer , trained to look for them , can detect . ’ |
| 19 | I , I , I was supposed to have a lift , and erm I was waiting like I say ten to five we knock off half one you see and the guy never turned up , the car was there but |
| 20 | We walk out this evening and the city is a fathomless well of deep toned reds and browns , golds and a wonderful dusky orange . |
| 21 | ‘ We kill off all Russians . |
| 22 | We cut up small pieces of carpet into different sizes and we 've got about fifteen different folders |
| 23 | ‘ We welcome around one million people to Studland each year , ’ explained Geoff Hann , local National Trust head warden . |
| 24 | Well I mean I can assure them that the , the National Rivers Authority in the Thames region is monitoring rivers on a daily basis throughout the year and that we would hope to deal with pollution incidents as they occur , and we would hope with our monitoring and the pressure we put on third parties to er actually over the years , to improve things from what they are at the moment and to make things better . |
| 25 | He clenched his fist and added : ‘ If other people take no notice , if we achieve nothing , than we put in more engagement , we work more hard towards what we want ! ’ |
| 26 | Last year we put in more capacity at Wrexham to make self-injection devices for the new Glaxo migraine treatment Imigran . |
| 27 | We hold out little hope in this case , unless the Inland Revenue grants a special individual concession , or , on appeal , the General Commissioners decide in favour of the director 's wife on the basis of the unusual facts appertaining . |
| 28 | The new covenant is commemorated every time we celebrate the Eucharist ; and we have a vivid image of the covenant every time we hold out empty hands to receive the sacrament , because we have nothing to offer . |
| 29 | When we mix up strange horses in this way , it is not surprising that some should display aggression , as the horses have not had the opportunity to work out their social positions in relation to each other . |
| 30 | We break down finite clauses into functional categories ( adverbial clause , relative clause , etc ) , and non-finite clauses into formal categories ( infinitive , verbless , etc ) . |