Example sentences of "we [verb] of [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is assumed John travelled first as a student , to Paris and perhaps elsewhere in France ; then he travelled countless times to the curia on the business of his master Theobald , archbishop of Canterbury ; and from his letters we know of at least two other major pilgrimages he undertook from his exile at Rheims in the 1160s . |
| 2 | We know of at least one person whose army consists entirely of Goblin wolf riders ! |
| 3 | There were loads of coins spread about and we know of at least one enterprising youngster who got down on his hands and knees , without the aid of a detector , using his hands to find nearly ten pounds in modern coins and two of the much sought-after tokens . |
| 4 | We know that er sixteen schools at least are taking part at the Cotswold Wildlife Park , er we know of at least ten at the walk at Broughton Park , er we 've got er students from polytechnics , Brownies , Guides , Headington Slimmers Magazine Club have registered a team , the advisory centre for multicultural education , Oxford City courier newspaper are promising to send teams . |
| 5 | Leaving aside the Romans , whose tradition of town-planning had been completely forgotten after their departure , the earliest piece of town-planning that we know of in England is that carried out by Abbot Baldwin at Bury St Edmunds , between 1066 and 1086 . |
| 6 | We were married at home , and one of the reasons why is because we bought a very old house about three years ago and on the top floor it has a , a large room which used to be the ballroom , and we did a little research and we found that the last wedding that we know of in the house took place in seventeen fifty eight , when apparently it was very common in Scotland to get married at home , it was more uncommon to go to church . |
| 7 | We were practising for what we conceived of as adulthood . |
| 8 | It was a world unto itself , a working class community that existed quite separately from central London — which we thought of as Town , a totally different place . |
| 9 | It seems that all the things that we met with in life and thought of as advantages in the beginning , are found to be grave disadvantages ; and all those things that in our youth we thought of as severe disadvantages , at last come to be seen as benefits . |
| 10 | There is also the name Angel Kirvor , which was the first pseudonym we thought of for our combined poems . |
| 11 | You and Doyle were following Latowa , the only student we knew of with any sort of modus operandi . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , all these types of rights contrast fundamentally with the ‘ once-and-for-all ’ rights vested in an individual that we think of as private property . |
| 13 | He drew from the high soprano instrument sounds totally different from what we think of as saxophone tone , remarkably pure and wide-ranging in timbre and dynamic . |
| 14 | We think of a being who shows various emotions towards creation — love , wrath , anger , sorrow , mercy and so on — and who is associated with particular activities that we think of as actions taken by persons , such as judgement . |
| 15 | What we think of as the music we used to listen to , is n't necessarily the music that was played to us . |
| 16 | What we think of as us has been fashioned by the years of work . |
| 17 | Price is another factor which influences quantity with some foods — mainly those we think of as protein foods . |
| 18 | For while an objective attitude carries with it a certain distance , and a recognition that what we think of as natural responses such as gratitude or resentment are out of place , reactive attitudes confirm our beliefs about the expectations people have of one another in society . |
| 19 | As I have emphasised above , what we think of as ‘ scientific ’ endeavour takes place in a social context , within institutions and ideologies which are not themselves necessarily committed to ‘ scientific ’ thought or logic . |
| 20 | What we think of as elementary particles are really these little loops vibrating in different ways . |
| 21 | The lecturer was convinced of the incorrectness or injustice of this opinion ; in his view the explanation of Turner 's beginning in middle age to paint what we think of as ‘ Turners ’ was that the crystalline lens of his eyes became rather dim when he was about fifty-five , ‘ and dispersed the light more strongly , and in consequence threw a bluish mist over illuminated objects ’ . |
| 22 | We can understand this in the following way : What we think of as " empty " space can not be completely empty because that would mean that all the fields , such as the gravitational and electromagnetic fields , would have to be exactly zero . |
| 23 | What we think of in simple terms as electricity is related to the creative forces in the universe in ways that we can not imagine . |