Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.

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1 The reason I 'm here is I 've been friends with Jake ever since we met over a beer or three in Germany during my Jam days , I admire him as a lyricist and I think the group has a valid future . ’
2 At the start of the filming we bring in a students ' orchestra and we rehearse for three days , six sessions in all .
3 One question I did ask at the Fire and Public Protection Committees what happens when you do n't , when we bring in a unity authority status .
4 We made up a bed on the floor and we took turns to sleep in the bed itself .
5 in the interview right , we made up a song about it
6 As we passed close by we made out a cross , erected at the tip in 1896 after two destroyers collided in thick fog , eventually breaking up on the headland .
7 So now what 's happening is we 're before we 're doing an album we sit down and we pick out a lot of songs we decide right you know we need songs with good story books so the video is near enough planned with the recording of the song and it it 's a lot easier for us and a lot more enjoyable enough a lot more enjoyable .
8 If we make up a helical coil ( Fig. 4.2(b) ) the wires are going round always in the same direction so the voltages simply add and we may rewrite eqn ( 4.13 ) in the form
9 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 .
10 In Salamanca we often smiled at each other as we passed along a street called Street of the Two Poets — or was it a little plaza ?
11 Why , in particular , should we rule out a fourth possibility , that the origin of life is a far more probable event than is suggested by Statement 3 ?
12 Well , she went and got the Deputy Head and she was a bit upset about it , and then after that our biology group was chopped right down , more or less cut in half , and most of the boys went somewhere else to do their biology while the rest of us stayed with that teacher and we got on a lot better then , you know .
13 Actually just just quickly er I just noticed on that list of your questionnaires that we got back a couple that they did n't actually know what was going on .
14 we lolled over a tablecloth
15 Alison Vaissiere ( the Fair 's organiser ) : Four years ago we drew up a five-year plan ; the first theme in 1989 coincided with the tercentenary of William and Mary and was titled ‘ A tribute to the age of William and Mary ’ ; the following year was ‘ Italy and the Grand Tour ’ ; last year , ‘ The Art and influence of Japan ’ coincided with the Japan Festival ; and of course this year celebrates American patronage .
16 In 1977 , we drew up a petition in the name of AMPES which was distributed to factory owners .
17 We drew up a list of things we wanted to do and people we wanted to see , ’ says Bridget .
18 For last year 's service we drew up a plan and then wrote a personal letter from the laity group to all the Churches , emphasising how much we believed in the power of praying together for Unity .
19 Manager : We sat with the clinicians and said , look we 've got to identify the capital to do this properly and we drew up a clinic scheme and then we had to compromise on what they wanted and John at one stage said , " I 'm sorry , that is what you 're getting .
20 During an overnight assault through the Alps we bounced off a wall of snow but , luckily , only lost the number on the driver 's door .
21 Trout sent ripples over the silver surface ; we cracked up a Steinlager , then joined them .
22 We are inundated with rabbits , so we fenced off a rabbit-proof area for vegetables and netted the top — the pigeons , caterpillars and slugs ate the lot .
23 We moved around a lot , until we were old enough to go to boarding school .
24 We moved around a lot when I was young .
25 It 's about time we loosened up a bit anyway .
26 The accompanying suggestion that we send round an additional sheet giving dates of events , at least within the area , has been taken up .
27 In the first stage we build up a broad structured picture which identifies the main parties , the interactions between them and the main areas where their interests may conflict .
28 Through this progression , we build up a vista in the round , the lone figure of the narrator at its centre ; then , in ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) , the eye focuses on a particular point : the distant river and vanishing tug , whose disappearance from the scene reinforces the narrator 's isolation .
29 Now we 've got a formula , so we build up a little table .
30 In the course of our psychic experiences with the objects of our feelings in our environment we build up an inner world which is peopled by ourselves and the residual images of these objects .
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