Example sentences of "we [vb base] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We soak the feet in nice , erm , antiseptic soapy water , and when we think the feet have soaked enough for the skin to become soft , we take the feet out and then we rub with a foot file to get rid of the hard skin . |
| 2 | The reason why company law should have been so concerned to legitimate the power of corporate managers is that this power potentially threatens the political-economic organization we associate with a liberal democracy . |
| 3 | This is called " sensitive dependence on initial conditions " , a phenomenon which persists even when the strange invariant set becomes attracting ( see below ) and which gives the typical " chaotic " , " turbulent " or " pseudo-random " behaviour which we associate with a " strange attractor " . |
| 4 | So , if we are grooming a horse and it tries to cow-kick us , we retaliate with a sharp verbal reproach or a smack with the flat of the hand , and usually the horse decides to accept that we are the boss and minds its manners in the future . |
| 5 | It should be emphasised , however , that although in a sense Spinoza recommends the ethical precepts he endorses to each of us as what we will accept if we act with a view to our own best interest , these best interests are conceived in a way which is very far removed from the goals of what is commonly called egoism . |
| 6 | We conclude with a brief discussion of the interaction of some recent participatory initiatives with the local representative system of democracy . |
| 7 | After a more general treatment of the direct vs indirect tax debate , we conclude with a brief look at recent reforms of local taxation and social security benefits . |
| 8 | We conclude with a discussion of floating-rate notes . |
| 9 | Similarly , C. S. Lewis 's The Allegory of Love is praised by Kathleen Tillotson for charting the nature and evolution of two " principles " , or fundamental movements of the human mind — romantic love and allegory : " It is rarely that we meet with a work of literary criticism of such manifest and general importance as this . " |
| 10 | The next shot is of the traffic itself , and we pan with a quaint three-wheel vehicle as it passes by on its way to market with a cargo of onions . |
| 11 | The guiding principle is that our minds are more active when we view with a purpose . |
| 12 | We begin with a walk through the town centre , full of timbered houses and medieval street names . |
| 13 | This shows how far Wordsworth has moved since the Preface to Lyrical Ballads , and on what subjects he feels compelled to address his readers ; this time there is no discussion of the theory or poetry , but we begin with a review of the Poor Law Amendment Act ( 1834 ) . |
| 14 | We begin with a study of the categories of offence . |
| 15 | We begin with a brief look at the official figures , since , whatever the shortcomings of these statistics , and no matter how distorted a picture of ‘ real ’ crime they portray , they do nevertheless have real effects , since they are used , for example , in political debate and inform , at least partially , the public 's perception of the crime problem . |
| 16 | We begin with a more general discussion of all forms of imperfect competition and monopoly power . |
| 17 | We begin with a brief and necessarily incomplete review of UK statistics ; the general provisions are typical of what is available in countries of the Western world . |
| 18 | Well , we deal with a wide range of different groups , and erm we 've got to produce a best advice list , and er we try to find you the best contract available in the market . |
| 19 | We close with a cautionary note : one should bear in mind that a source of potential confusion always present is the fact that certain verbs lend themselves to occurrence with more than one type of adjectival construction , and to illustrate let us observe that any of the following , with their different modes of interpretation , are fully acceptable sentences of English : ( 72 ) Mackay preferred the picture stolen ( postnominal attributive ) ( 73 ) Shelagh prefers her holidays adventurous ( predicate qualifier ) ( 74 ) we prefer the king ( to be ) beheaded ( clausal ) |
| 20 | We end with a discussion of the accounting policy-making environment in the public sector . |
| 21 | Rather we go with a gospel of love which invites others to meet a Lord who is merciful , compassionate , and whose yoke is easy . |
| 22 | No , erm , start all again hi , ho , hi , ho it 's off to work we go we 've a huff , huff , huff and a whin , whin , whin hi , ho , hi , ho , it 's home from work we go with a chuff , chuff , chuff and a whin , whin , whin hi , ho , hi , ho , it 's off to work we go with a chuff , chuff , chuff and a whin , whin , whin hi , ho , hi , ho |
| 23 | No , erm , start all again hi , ho , hi , ho it 's off to work we go we 've a huff , huff , huff and a whin , whin , whin hi , ho , hi , ho , it 's home from work we go with a chuff , chuff , chuff and a whin , whin , whin hi , ho , hi , ho , it 's off to work we go with a chuff , chuff , chuff and a whin , whin , whin hi , ho , hi , ho |
| 24 | hi , ho , hi , ho it 's off to work we go with a chuff , chuff , chuff , whin , whin , whin , hi , ho , hi , ho it 's home from work we go with a chuff , chuff , chuff , whin , whin , whin , hi , ho , hi , ho , it 's off to work we go |
| 25 | hi , ho , hi , ho it 's off to work we go with a chuff , chuff , chuff , whin , whin , whin , hi , ho , hi , ho it 's home from work we go with a chuff , chuff , chuff , whin , whin , whin , hi , ho , hi , ho , it 's off to work we go |
| 26 | With a bucket and spade and a hand grenade hi ho hi ho hi ho hi ho hi ho it 's off to Rumbold 's we go with a bucket and spade hi ho hi ho . |
| 27 | hey ho and off we go with a run legged run , run , run , hey ho and off we go la , la , la , la , la ninety nine mate please , with a flake and lots of sauce revenging boys , revenge of the giant cucumber lotion |
| 28 | Editor , — We sympathise with A Esmail and S Everington over the medicolegal problems resulting from their study but were sorry to note their observation on the ‘ comparative unpopularity ’ of psychiatry . |
| 29 | Whatever we do with a horse from the beginning of its life will influence the creation of habits or forms of behaviour which it may well keep for the rest of its life . |
| 30 | manual expression ( the child is requested to ‘ Show me what we do with a … ’ ) . |