Example sentences of "we [vb base] [adv prt] in " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The fact is , ’ wrote Clark himself on 15 August , ‘ that if we lose out in the Middle East , we shall be immediately destroyed . ’
2 During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air .
3 The wind died and we lay out in midstream drifting with the current .
4 What we concentrate on in Britain , is earth observation .
5 We are taken through the political and social development of a country which the US regards as its gateway to South America — and we wind up in a situation little different from the past in which an elite group monopolized economic and political power .
6 Over supper we sit down in the low evening sun and watch the hills change from one blue to another , to mauve , to grey , to black .
7 ‘ I do n't suppose we sit out in the sun above twice a year .
8 It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists .
9 It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists .
10 In our thinking we follow the Perceptual maps of the world that we build up in our minds .
11 The French are just laughing at us as we stumble around in a fog . ’
12 Yeah and then we stop off in , then we , while we 're on the coach we stop off in Germany for breakfast
13 Yeah and then we stop off in , then we , while we 're on the coach we stop off in Germany for breakfast
14 We share a vast depth of vulnerability which we cover up in different ways .
15 We meet up in Dover , take the ferry over to Calais and motor down to Canet Plage in comfort .
16 She was the type of young woman who loves danger ; and she insisted that we lie down in the entrance way to a park .
17 What we loose out in the winter we gain extra in the summer in the summer time .
18 What are the skills that we need when we stand up in front of people to actually deliver what we have to say
19 The ‘ challenge to society ’ seems to fit Raskolnikov 's Napoleonic idea — until we read on in Anna Dostoevsky 's manuscript where it is at once and directly linked to ‘ the governor 's bitten ear ’ , that is to one of those sudden sallies of Stavrogin 's elsewhere in The Possessed , sallies hovering between outrage and prank .
20 The men and women we read about in the Bible have aspirations and failings with which we easily identify , and even the heroes of Scripture are displayed in the cold light of truth .
21 The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars .
22 When we look out in space ( and hence back in time ) to a redshift of 2 to 3 , we do indeed see a lot of quasars .
23 If ever we wake up in the morning and feel that this is just ‘ another day to get through ’ , then our life is painfully stuck — and it is fear and limiting beliefs which are keeping us stuck .
24 When we draw up in a pitch-black stonewalled alley I wonder about his reaction .
25 Once again we set out in the pre-dawn walk through the forest , the amble across the alpine pastures , and the short struggle up the screes to the foot of the wall .
26 As we set out in the truck which was going to take us the eight miles to Oakington , I was conscious that for once I was really looking my absolute best .
27 At nine o'clock that night we set out in the pouring rain , our car packed with people and stores of food , picking our way through lorries , mules and men on foot .
28 Although Johnson twice found the hillocky little town lacking — ‘ At night we came to Bamff [ sic ] , where I remember nothing that particularly claimed my attention ’ ; and ‘ Finding nothing to detain us at Bamff , we set out in the morning ’ — he yet managed to write a short exercise in observation of Scottish small borough architecture .
29 These two disorders , surface dyslexia and phonological dyslexia , have extremely straightforward interpretations in terms of the model of reading we set out in Chapter 6 .
30 I will not go further than to say ’ around 40 ’ , but we certainly intend to implement the programme that we set out in ’ Options for Change ’ .
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