Example sentences of "we [vb base] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We lose a few holidaymakers every year . |
| 2 | ‘ We want a few good skirmishers . ’ |
| 3 | We want a few less troublemakers |
| 4 | You see towards the bottom er we pose a few questions there , I 'm going to ask you in a few minutes to introduce yourselves and to say what what sort of presentations you make at the moment . |
| 5 | I fully understand the considerable cross-party support for what was said in the ten-minute Bill , but it is important that we wait a few months to see where the European Court comes down . |
| 6 | We put a few records on the jukebox and got him to mime along . |
| 7 | To keep the 1:6 cement/ballast concrete level and consistent thickness , we put a few levelled pegs at the extreme sides of the pit for guidance . |
| 8 | To make our special pasta , we break a few eggs . |
| 9 | We give a few examples . |
| 10 | But er the way I look at it if he 's which is not too long , what I do , what I normally we give a half an hour er or |
| 11 | Sister Agnesey leads me to the bed on which lies Maria Frantzia , the old man 's wife ; she smiles and we exchange a few words . |
| 12 | But er the government , a long while ago , actually decided they ought to do something about knocking the institutions ' heads together and they drew up a plan called the Council of Engineering Institutes , where the idea was we get a little of coordination across the entire patch . |
| 13 | ‘ I will be more than happy if we play as well as we did against Stockport County , providing we get a little luck . |
| 14 | Erm so if we had one penny shared out between two of us we get a half a penny each a half penny which they do n't have any more they used to but they have them any more . |
| 15 | Every month we get a few plonkers sending their tapes back to us . |
| 16 | ( Let's face it , when was the last time you heard references to ‘ Cliff Richard 's lip ’ , Iggy Pop and the annual ceremony marking the opening of the Houses of Parliament side-by-side in a song ? ) ; indecision and apathy are confronted in ‘ Not Superstitious ’ ; ‘ Dead Industrial Atmosphere ’ details the decline of the North-East as an economic force and the subsequent social fall-out and , of course , we get a few long songs thrown in to spice things up , or down , as is more often than not the case . |
| 17 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
| 18 | ‘ We get a few calls from people who have lost heavy vehicles which ca n't be recovered by civilian companies . ’ |
| 19 | we find a few more , right let it go . |
| 20 | We arrive a few minutes later you see , to plan , and we 're putting the stuff in . |
| 21 | We make up a story to cover the facts we do n't know or ca n't accept ; we keep a few true facts and spin a new story round them . |
| 22 | Maybe we stay a few days . |
| 23 | Eduard 's gentle insistence that we try a few gems from the cellars of Veuve Cliquot roughly translated into six bottles which rapidly topped up our reservoirs of ‘ entente cordiale . ’ |
| 24 | Some of us even enjoy the political battles , provided we win a few . |
| 25 | For less cultural souls , we offer a half day trip to sample the local wines in the Valpolicella region . |
| 26 | As one television executive put it : ‘ We do a few gay programmes , and will carry on doing them . |
| 27 | even though they lost Hereford still went and celebrated … and we 've a few more Central South folk to congratulate tonight … here they are |
| 28 | we 've an all star cast for a round-up this week … topping the bill the big rugby match between Bath and Gloucester |
| 29 | Now that we have a little experience in the joys of simple kite flying , it 's time to look deeper into the whole subject and to understand more about those ‘ Modern Materials ’ which have emerged since the 1970s . |
| 30 | But we have a little time left . |