Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The superintendent of police in my area has told me that , were we to round up about 150 people in the county of Cleveland , it would eradicate about 80 per cent . |
| 2 | ‘ When 're we goin' out then , ’ Billy demanded . |
| 3 | We regret very much the fact that there have been job losses in the defence industry — of course — and the figure is 25,000 — If the hon. Gentleman will not even listen to the reply to his argument it is his loss . |
| 4 | Wallowing our way into a sheltered corner of the bay , we rode rather inelegantly in on the surf . |
| 5 | We change as fast as we possibly can , |
| 6 | We crept close enough to see the features which set them apart from curlew : the smaller size , relatively shorter bill and pattern of light and dark head-stripes . |
| 7 | As an immediate implication of this we distinguish very sharply between a producer who is the sole source of supply for a particular commodity because he has unique access to a necessary resource and one who is the sole source of supply as a result of his entrepreneurial activities ( which can easily be duplicated by his competitors , if they choose ) . |
| 8 | On the earlier occasion , the old man had also ‘ stopp 'd short ’ while on a holiday fishing expedition ; at that time his daughter Emma was already dead , but we flash back even further for a moment to recall her voice . |
| 9 | Ca n't we eat around here ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ No , we met just now … ’ |
| 11 | We met briefly once in the water on my ill-fated outing at Laniakea : he was planing down a wave , I was scuttling up it , looking for a way out . |
| 12 | ‘ We met briefly yesterday , sir . |
| 13 | The first thing Sandy said when we met up again was , ‘ Come back to the house . ’ |
| 14 | We met up again when I was working in television . |
| 15 | Here we met up again with Ned , and stayed with Deryn Williams who is a niece of Anne 's and teaches at the local High School — we camped in her garden . |
| 16 | When we went on holiday , perhaps to Eastbourne , we used to have four or five other couples who worked in the Post Office with me — we met down there annually and played bowls amongst ourselves . ’ |
| 17 | We met once before . ’ |
| 18 | Later , we met very briefly . |
| 19 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 20 | Although both the Indians and colonists are involved in actual and potential conflicts , the people we met almost always helped in our work . |
| 21 | We applied twice more to the DTI for release . |
| 22 | We lay there silently , then he got up and left the room , leaving me lying there in an agony of frustration and guilt , furious with myself for having given way , yet curiously glad I had finally done so . |
| 23 | Now this I dependably find a real throw-up number but there 's never anything too horrendous because , as my colleagues are always saying , we 're at the darning-and-patching level of the biomedical business : the serious cases we bring in direct , and at speed , from the city hospitals , and we in our turn get rid of them as quickly as we can . |
| 24 | Yet we rub along well most of the time . |
| 25 | that wax that we made up there with the antique wax has n't turned out as well it did with Mansion polish so when you make it up |
| 26 | So , thought Meredith grimly when she had arrived back in the kitchen of Rose Cottage , do we rush on madly to our doom . |
| 27 | We realised straight away that the Landrover was a good choice of vehicle because even the main roads were pretty rough , and we intended spending most of our time in the north of the island where road and track conditions promised to be even worse . |
| 28 | We realised how much we depend on each other . |
| 29 | We realised how quickly the evening had passed when the night staff arrived . |
| 30 | ‘ We realised very early on that there was something very wrong with Helen , ’ he said at the time . |