Example sentences of "we [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My photographic equipment was a bit limited by the fact that as a leader I was required to carry a heavy hunting rifle all the time we were ashore , just in case we met with a polar bear in a nasty mood . |
| 2 | We soak the feet in nice , erm , antiseptic soapy water , and when we think the feet have soaked enough for the skin to become soft , we take the feet out and then we rub with a foot file to get rid of the hard skin . |
| 3 | We managed only one practice session , on a school playing field in St Thomas which we shared with a tense local football match . |
| 4 | A few years ago I and my two sons made an amazing discovery — a discovery we shared with a few of our colleagues here . |
| 5 | The reason why company law should have been so concerned to legitimate the power of corporate managers is that this power potentially threatens the political-economic organization we associate with a liberal democracy . |
| 6 | This is called " sensitive dependence on initial conditions " , a phenomenon which persists even when the strange invariant set becomes attracting ( see below ) and which gives the typical " chaotic " , " turbulent " or " pseudo-random " behaviour which we associate with a " strange attractor " . |
| 7 | So , if we are grooming a horse and it tries to cow-kick us , we retaliate with a sharp verbal reproach or a smack with the flat of the hand , and usually the horse decides to accept that we are the boss and minds its manners in the future . |
| 8 | We experimented with a new Editor who wrote and commissioned interesting and often controversial articles , but this approach was competitive with the British Sunday press and I discovered that " controversial " can be distasteful . |
| 9 | It should be emphasised , however , that although in a sense Spinoza recommends the ethical precepts he endorses to each of us as what we will accept if we act with a view to our own best interest , these best interests are conceived in a way which is very far removed from the goals of what is commonly called egoism . |
| 10 | We conclude with a brief discussion of the interaction of some recent participatory initiatives with the local representative system of democracy . |
| 11 | After a more general treatment of the direct vs indirect tax debate , we conclude with a brief look at recent reforms of local taxation and social security benefits . |
| 12 | We conclude with a discussion of floating-rate notes . |
| 13 | She joined in a singsong in the sailors ’ mess , playing ‘ What shall we do with a drunken sailor ? ’ after drinking from a can of beer . |
| 14 | What can we do with a couple of crumsters ? |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't often associate the word passion with us , ’ said Luton 's manager , David Pleat , afterwards , ‘ but I thought we played with a lot of passion in the first half . ’ |
| 16 | Our defence has been solid and we played with a lot of spirit against Kilmarnock and Dunfermline . |
| 17 | Instead , we prepared with a series of games at the local level here in B.C. ’ . |
| 18 | Er and we came with a very strong view I thought certainly to conclusion and I did that er , that those things need strengthening and must be a in taking part of any further distraction er at Heathrow . |
| 19 | Similarly , C. S. Lewis 's The Allegory of Love is praised by Kathleen Tillotson for charting the nature and evolution of two " principles " , or fundamental movements of the human mind — romantic love and allegory : " It is rarely that we meet with a work of literary criticism of such manifest and general importance as this . " |
| 20 | Instead , we opened with a symphonic version of the ‘ Dead March ’ from ‘ Saul ’ , fading out into the reading of a six-stanza poetic eulogy written for the occasion by a local lady admirer and 1OAB fan . |
| 21 | The next shot is of the traffic itself , and we pan with a quaint three-wheel vehicle as it passes by on its way to market with a cargo of onions . |
| 22 | The guiding principle is that our minds are more active when we view with a purpose . |
| 23 | We begin with a walk through the town centre , full of timbered houses and medieval street names . |
| 24 | This shows how far Wordsworth has moved since the Preface to Lyrical Ballads , and on what subjects he feels compelled to address his readers ; this time there is no discussion of the theory or poetry , but we begin with a review of the Poor Law Amendment Act ( 1834 ) . |
| 25 | We begin with a study of the categories of offence . |
| 26 | We begin with a brief look at the official figures , since , whatever the shortcomings of these statistics , and no matter how distorted a picture of ‘ real ’ crime they portray , they do nevertheless have real effects , since they are used , for example , in political debate and inform , at least partially , the public 's perception of the crime problem . |
| 27 | We begin with a more general discussion of all forms of imperfect competition and monopoly power . |
| 28 | We begin with a brief and necessarily incomplete review of UK statistics ; the general provisions are typical of what is available in countries of the Western world . |
| 29 | I also remember an enjoyable afternoon when we walked with a bit of grass stem arranged round our front teeth because apparently we envied our friends who had to wear braces on their teeth . |
| 30 | We arrived at all of the locations in good time , although the traffic in Stoke did put us under a little pressure towards the end , we finished with a whole five minutes to spare ! |