Example sentences of "we [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Department is meeting all the commitments that we made in the citizens charter White Paper . |
| 32 | I make the point because , in the report that we are debating , we make several recommendations and we wish the Government to take them more seriously than those that we made in the past . |
| 33 | If anybody wants to comment on it , or any I think perhaps just confirm the calculation about being roughly one a day , that erm if you take the number of decisions that we made in the last twelve months , twenty one point eight percent of which were , erm , decisions to be put out by twenty six five , if we divide that by four , divide it by fifty two , and divide it by five you end up with point eight six per day , er |
| 34 | Well , we 've got a couple that we made in the fifties . |
| 35 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 36 | Then we goes in the garage . |
| 37 | And we si and we sing it upstairs and she goes wandering up the stairs and we hide in the airing cupboard ! |
| 38 | Erm a number of years ago we read in the paper that the Farnsfield borehole was being updated and |
| 39 | We require also to recruit and motivate the best people and this in turn requires a good reputation , not only for the goods we make and the worthiness of our contribution to society , but also the way in which we do these things , the sort of people we employ and the contributions we make in the area , and whether we are good citizens or not . |
| 40 | Things we make in the UK are much more readily exportable than they used to be because of this . |
| 41 | Once we finally identified the leaked document , we countered in the most conclusive way known in politics : we published it in its entirety . |
| 42 | I wondered what the place with towers and searchlights had been that we passed in the night . |
| 43 | The afternoons we passed in the hotel courtyard where we ate , read , played cards , and slept like cats in a paradise of shade , northerly breezes and birdsong , while the town outside baked . |
| 44 | But there is the same substantial caveat which we registered in the case of the Nuer : the particular kind of mystical powers which sustain the social order can not be predicted from the social order . |
| 45 | We lived in the San Ramon district on the outskirts of the city . |
| 46 | We lived in the tenement block that ran its whole length in a top-storey room and kitchen with no bathroom and an outside toilet shared with several other families and reached by an open staircase . |
| 47 | He had to go you see , but I mean er later in my lifetime when we lived in the in the village at I can remember very very well the the er the miners there er going to work and then coming home again , going to work and coming home again , nothing for them to do . |
| 48 | We lived in the same street . |
| 49 | And if we lived in the country then it would n't be me coming home every night whacked out and wanting to be looked after and having a squawking infant instead . |
| 50 | Even that very first night , at that party at the Estwicks ’ place , you were wishing we lived in the days when a man could keep his mistress hidden away . ’ |
| 51 | My mother came from around here , and we lived in the area until I was about eight years old . |
| 52 | I 've managed to erm , the first time we went skiing is when we lived in the States , we went to like , er , not dry ski slopes there , but it was like false snow , that 's the same as you erm , they were really , was like eleven years ago , sort of like , technology had n't quite advanced terribly much , you know , and these bindings , you had like , metal clips on the bottom of your boots , and you had to put the thing in and clip the boot , clip the thing round on the skis , to keep your boot on the ski , right , it was n't like toe clips where you shove your foot , |
| 53 | I was n't supposed to be a novelty that people come to look at , like we became in the Beatles . |
| 54 | So , as soon as we got in the studio , I was on the trail . ’ |
| 55 | The girls were being taken in at night after we left and what a mess we got in the morning ! |
| 56 | I never understood why we got in the tangled bureaucratic mess of the community charge to pick up the tiny amount of 3 million out of 42.5 million people . |
| 57 | ‘ Yeah , until we got in the car to come here . ’ |
| 58 | I have a suspicion that the justifiable coverage we got in the media hardened the hearts at Shire Hall . |
| 59 | Oh we were waiting and waiting in the end we got in the car . |
| 60 | I think it 's along side that , behind that remember we got in the wrong lane one day and we |