Example sentences of "we [vb base] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lay entwined on a secluded hillside . |
| 2 | We lay coiled like snakes , listening to the wind gathering force to rage into a storm . |
| 3 | Although it may fill both our physical and mental viewing frames , we remain detached from it and have not entered the cluster . |
| 4 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
| 5 | It becomes possible , if we remain committed to living and working with men , to identify the terms on which we shall participate and what re-negotiation must go on if these relationships are to be transformed . |
| 6 | We remain committed to that . |
| 7 | ‘ We remain committed to supporting the needs of blind people and our aim must be to achieve a fair system right across Cleveland . ’ |
| 8 | Without the will for self-examination and the desire to change ourselves , we can make no progress ; we remain stuck in our types , experiencing only what that type allows and learning nothing new about ourselves or life . |
| 9 | We bring to bear on the various officers and employees and shareholders and others associated with the corporation our ordinary standards of personal responsibility . |
| 10 | The nearest we can get to a guarantee of success in our moral choices is the cogency of the arguments that we bring to bear in their support coupled with the recognition that what we are almost invariably doing , as MacIver points out and thinkers like Sartre have laboured to establish , is continually deciding between possible alternatives . |
| 11 | The standards we bring to bear in the act of appraisal have their purchase precisely because the act , or artefact , or creation , or social institution is not fixed , but has a degree of mutability about it . |
| 12 | I know it is n't easy but erm I think we should you know , try and we advertise starting at eight o'clock and very often there 's only Alan and I here at eight . |
| 13 | ‘ You made the condition that we dance according to the music , ’ he reminded her . |
| 14 | It 's become a truism that we despise ageing in this culture , and I see few signs of that abating . |
| 15 | The nuts we eat come from one of two species , the black walnut ( Juglans nigra ) and the English or Persian , walnut ( J. regia , which comes originally from Iran ) . |
| 16 | As we have explained earlier in the book , insulin response to the carbohydrate foods we eat varies with the speed of absorption of the carbohydrate . |
| 17 | Cereals ( sophisticated grasses ) , fruits , vegetables , seeds and nuts are essential constituents of human diet — some may say the only suitable ones — and even the meat we eat comes from animals which themselves feed on vegetation in the shape of grasses and herbaceous plants . |
| 18 | We make do with the dole and Ellie 's going in with a friend who 's just started a café which 'll help with the food . |
| 19 | Whilst physical infirmity may make physical care of great significance to the old person and mental infirmity may limit their capacity to give and receive other kinds of care , the efforts we make to relate to the whole person are critical if we are to avoid the stigmatising and depersonalising processes which insult the integrity of the old person . |
| 20 | For example if we make say for example five pence on the bottle and we or for cap er one of these for twenty bottle tops , that 's a quid which is paid for . |
| 21 | Suppose we make known to a child that we have three sticks , all of different length . |
| 22 | It is the way we intend to proceed in a whole range of different market areas . ’ |
| 23 | Therefore , before embarking on any research project we must make clear that we intend to act on the results . |
| 24 | Data-gathering should only be undertaken if we intend to act upon the information which has been accumulated . |
| 25 | Clearly , the regular-reserve force mix study will have to take into account what we see as threats and how we intend to deal with them . |
| 26 | We intend to arrive at the Radcliffe Infirmary at 10.30 am on Thursday 15 June and we would hope to complete the interview with you in approximately an hour . |
| 27 | If he agrees that the position is as we think it should be , why does he not say that he agrees with the proposals in the Green Paper , which we intend to put into legislation ? |
| 28 | We shall be writing to you around August 1989 to check that the information that we intend to put onto the Register about you is correct . |
| 29 | We intend looking at the situation again in … |
| 30 | What we intend to do in this chapter is discuss the inferential structure that forms the backbone of many of the methods of data collection currently in use . |