Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We charge you a commission so we raise badly needed funds too ! |
| 2 | We charge you a commission so we raise badly needed funds too ! |
| 3 | All that business about Linda — I know we agreed not to talk about it — but I feel such a shit out here . |
| 4 | ‘ I know , in spite of the fact that we agreed not to discuss it , it was all because of what had happened in the past , was n't it ? ’ |
| 5 | That 's why we agreed not to train her . |
| 6 | We agreed therefore to conduct the interview in our local hostelry . |
| 7 | In fact , towards the end of our week at Lerwick a rather embarrassing state of affairs had developed , where every other seafarer we met ashore seemed to have received our attention , the inevitable result of us all being weatherbound together . |
| 8 | ‘ What intrigues me , ’ I asserted , ‘ is that the witch we met yesterday prophesied such a death . |
| 9 | Moreover , what we perceive far exceeds what actually interacts with our nervous system ; for what interacts with our nervous systems is occurrent energy and what we perceive are continuant objects ( see earlier , p. 98 ) . |
| 10 | We remain strongly opposed to bringing police forces under total local political control . |
| 11 | My Lords , we remain absolutely committed to parents being the key determinant as to whether a school should go grant maintained erm or whether it should not . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that if the major galleries of this country are to go on with their extremely enlightened and successful purchasing programme , it is essential that we bring in charging for entry ? |
| 13 | But maybe this ideal state of inconstancy we advocate only makes for fitter participants in capitalism . |
| 14 | Off we jolly well go . |
| 15 | ‘ We failed lamentably to break them down . |
| 16 | We did we 've just completed we 've done three or four others . |
| 17 | and things , job families er , we 've got that already and we 've got , there 's gon na be the computer thing on careers but you see we 've only managed this year to get it brought down from year eleven , somebody who went into this , keeping it very close to myself , to bring it down to year ten they 're actually you know , it 's very , very difficult to let them remove it and I ca n't see that you can then make that down to ninth year just yet . |
| 18 | You ca n't we 've only got two lights here |
| 19 | No I do n't w we 've never attempted to define development in those terms . |
| 20 | That means we make best use of our resources and offer help to more and more patients . ’ |
| 21 | That means we make best use of our resources and offer help to more and more patients . ’ |
| 22 | Derek Jeffries was bought for Crystal Palace for £100,000 in September 1973 by Manager Malcolm Allison , who h , ad also been his boss at Manchester City , to help boost Palace 's struggling midfield as we sought desperately to come to terms with life after relegation to Division Two . |
| 23 | ‘ We sought only to live our lives , remembering our lords in song and music , and in gentleness to one another . |
| 24 | In this chapter , we intend briefly to survey some of the cultural and technological correlates of a society 's attitudes towards child upbringing generally ; and , more specifically , to examine a few of the ways in which the individual methods which parents adopt in the handling of their small children are defined or modified by the intricate pattern of cultural pressures to which they find themselves subject . |
| 25 | So you may decide on a statement such as , ‘ We intend never to buy any item on HP ’ . |
| 26 | As we have attempted in our previous books on further education succinctly to summarize the chief characteristics of the polytechnics , we intend therefore to restrict ourselves to a discussion of the ways in which they have developed in the three years since the first edition of this book was written . |
| 27 | Tim Duffy , European manager of US-based videoconferencing supplier Picturetel , believes that the links have now improved to the point where the service is acceptable to several European countries and the US : ‘ Most products we sell today go on to ISDN . |
| 28 | It is odd to reflect that the firmest objective record of what we experienced now lies in the films — themselves mere illusory genii of chemicals and light , bound to 400-foot reels of processed trees and silver . |
| 29 | We tend nowadays to see these generations not merely in terms of the underlying electronic technology , but also in terms of the organization of the hardware and software involved in a computer system ; thus the transition to the fourth generation can be seen more as a change in the way that computer systems are organized ( with the use of such techniques as virtual storage and distributed intelligence ) , than as a change in the underlying technology . |
| 30 | Writing letters about yourself is never easy — we tend either to say too much or too little . |