Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | All we in fact observe is that h is regularly followed by B. This consistent association leads us to connect the two in our own minds , to expect A always to be followed by B , and this we then express by saying that A is the cause of B and B the effect of A. This is all perfectly in order , and indeed it is through such links and associations that we build up an ordered and coherent conception of the world around us and make sense of our experience of it . |
| 32 | For instance , ash we build up an initial market share with a tyre that does not wear out we move away from the long-term profitability because replacements fall sharply . |
| 33 | We built up a projection of Theresa , and Theresa 's cancer became very real . |
| 34 | Gradually we built up a common world , partly based on the great of the past , like Jane Austen , partly on Ivy . |
| 35 | From the teachers ' comments and our own observations , we built up a picture of some of the processes involved in creating these conditions . |
| 36 | We fled down a long avenue towards the river . |
| 37 | ‘ We found out a funny thing about the kids , lads really , they were n't so young . |
| 38 | But for once the weather was fine , the place was right on the other side of the airfield on the edge of open country , so we wandered about a bit , picking wild flowers and so on , and on the way back in the truck who should we see approaching in the distance , on foot , but our old pal Flt Off Gregory . |
| 39 | We walk down a flight of stone steps into the temple , where the faithful are already gathering . |
| 40 | We walk along a footpath beside the river . |
| 41 | She was watching the road as we roared down a slight incline at all of seventy . |
| 42 | We cut out a Fife man and made him tell us the plan for the men they dropped on the Forth . |
| 43 | ‘ We put on a substitute , Tony Dobson , as a second marker and Waddle still produced crosses . ’ |
| 44 | As a personal trademark we put up a straw model of a short-eared owl made locally especially for us . |
| 45 | We put up a lot with him ! |
| 46 | ‘ Every day people see their house as a wasting , dwindling asset , the longer we put off a return of consumer confidence , ’ he said . |
| 47 | We put out a lot of get-well cards and deepest sympathies , which was a bit of a con when the only thing I knew how to do apart from programming was punching people . |
| 48 | Erm and that was after we put out a referendum around the plant and we got a seventy eight response saying , No smoking . |
| 49 | Well as I say I mean we 're doing very well and all the money and , and you know , ninety percent of the money comes out of the the er the members ' pockets really I mean ev even the sub for the open show , we put out a lot of that even the stuff and things like this , so we do provide an awful lot of money . |
| 50 | ‘ We bust up a while back , ’ she says . |
| 51 | They were just there , suddenly , as we came over a hill and saw a river below us . |
| 52 | It was a good seven-hour jeep-lurch , even with Abu at the wheel , and for the last two hours we drove over a tyre-tearing track down a parched spit of land . |
| 53 | We drove up a steep gravel path , and soon beheld the well , Tobernalt . |
| 54 | Slowly we drove down a broad unpaved street lined with matchbox-houses . |
| 55 | Erm it 's quite important that we give out a very professional . |
| 56 | Were we marking out a soccer pitch ? |
| 57 | ‘ We soaked up a great deal of pressure , but then hit them on the break , ’ he said . |
| 58 | I says how come you deputation , you gave us a time of which to be here , now we said , we turned up a quarter hour beforehand and I says we get a phone call er a an intermission from Councillor that you could n't make it because that your car broke down . |
| 59 | If we turned up an hour late for a function in England we would be hammered by everybody . ’ |
| 60 | We turned down a flagrantly suburban side-street near the football ground . |