Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | A bit o' glass 'ad caught him on the fore'ead , but otherwise we 'ad n't a scratch to show for it between us . |
| 32 | we lolled over a tablecloth |
| 33 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 34 | ‘ Can we wait just a minute ? ’ |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | In 1977 , we drew up a petition in the name of AMPES which was distributed to factory owners . |
| 37 | ‘ We drew up a list of things we wanted to do and people we wanted to see , ’ says Bridget . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | We drew quite a few games away . |
| 41 | ‘ We began filming at 7.00am at the Bryman Airways check in. was shouting directions and the cameraman and soundman were fretting over which positions were best — we drew quite a crowd . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Trout sent ripples over the silver surface ; we cracked up a Steinlager , then joined them . |
| 44 | We report here a simplified and reliable protocol for fast minipreparation and denaturation of plasmid DNA which takes only half an hour to produce single-stranded template DNA of high quality for sequencing . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | We moved around a lot , until we were old enough to go to boarding school . |
| 47 | ‘ We moved around a lot when I was young . |
| 48 | It 's about time we loosened up a bit anyway . |
| 49 | When shall we know when a deprivation is good ? |
| 50 | In one key experiment , for example , we trained over a hundred birds , measuring their imprinting preference score and motor activity ( that is , how much they ran in the wheels ) as well as RNA synthesis . |
| 51 | We propose here a name for the gene we have partly described , and for the protein products ( GGFs , NDF , ARIA , heregulins ) derived from it . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Now we 've got a formula , so we build up a little table . |
| 55 | We want just a week 's paid holiday ! |
| 56 | We built up a projection of Theresa , and Theresa 's cancer became very real . |
| 57 | Gradually we built up a common world , partly based on the great of the past , like Jane Austen , partly on Ivy . |
| 58 | From the teachers ' comments and our own observations , we built up a picture of some of the processes involved in creating these conditions . |
| 59 | We fled down a long avenue towards the river . |
| 60 | We found instead a high general standard and — a very strong international body of work which is actually topographical , or environmental , rather than architectural . |