Example sentences of "we [verb] a [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 Promoter Frank Warren said : ‘ We made a £160,000 offer to Hodkinson to defend his title against Colin .
2 We made a £1,000 profit on our first issue , ’ he says .
3 It is because we wish to strengthen the Government 's hand against a fairly well organised industry which seeks universal general increases that we make a series of recommendations in the report , to which I shall come in a moment .
4 Soon after we passed a series of extraordinary drawings carved into the smooth granite .
5 ‘ How can we rule a people who wo n't accept that they 're beaten ? ’
6 For each age group we evaluated a series of prediction models in which hypoxaemia was the dependent variable and selected predictor variables were added in a step wise manner with an inclusion rule of p <=0.05.;
7 In our 1979 main survey , we asked a series of important questions to discover how people were influenced by the disclosure of either APR or the total credit cost , or both , when we asked them to choose between rival credit terms .
8 So they lived in the world before we became a people . ’
9 The old texts describe the science of a time past , before we became a people .
10 So we got a pair of football boots and some books and wedged them on the door , thinking that she 'd naturally see them .
11 To determine which functional group in CP 96345 interacts with His197 , we analysed a series of CP 96345 analogues in which the major substituents were altered .
12 It measured 1270mm wide , so we used a 914mm wide door and built up sides using 15mm laminated chipboard
13 One year , in June , we found a pair of swans still at Toftingall .
14 But er we found a pair of jeans er and having made sure that the jeans were empty of anything , er we sort of shuffled himself into the jeans a he lay down and we pulled , I I pulled the jeans up .
15 You 're in luck — we found a fowl this morning , and it did n't look too well , so we had to put it out of its misery . ’
16 Well can we buy a pair
17 We hired a 20′ x 10′ marquee for a week last Xmas as our wing covering garden workshop , and by New Year all tail and wing surfaces were covered but not yet painted .
18 We describe a series of equipment that reduces local doses and gamma radiation more efficiently than traditional equipment and at the same time facilitates the handling of the isotopes .
19 In the next chapter , we describe a series of experiments designed to explore the extent of this problem .
20 In this way we obtain a series , a small but an interesting one : the Nirvana -principle expresses the tendency of the death instincts ; the pleasure -principle represents the claims of the libido and that modification of it , the reality-principle , the influence of the outer world .
21 Lawrence said : ‘ Apart from next week , which is set aside for internationals , we face a series of mid-week games .
22 ‘ You and me , we look a pair of right Charlies , Charlie Hatton . ’
23 Almost all of us will never be back on another Lions ’ tour of New Zealand and if we manage a series win it would be an awesome achievement .
24 That 's all for now , but tonight on Central South we begin a series of special reports on community care .
25 Tomorrow we begin a series looking at the history of the Cowley works from the time of their Creator William Morris , through the Leyland years under Sir Michael Edwardes , up to the present day .
26 And we broke new ground when we arranged a £150 million programme on behalf of The Mortgage Corporation — the first case of a Sterling Commercial Paper Issuer being backed by a US Investment Bank covenant .
27 The road starts to climb and , to our left , we pass a 14m high clocktower — the Church of Nossa Senhora de Fátima — which was built atop precipitous slopes between 1942 and 1953 .
28 In this study we present a series of equipment that facilitates the handling of 32 P and at the same time protects the hands of the operator .
29 On this basis we present a series of expressions to describe the partitioning of contributions to the stability of the single strand helix :
30 We began a series of recriminations about the events leading up to the war .
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