Example sentences of "we [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The one thing we regret about the move is that we ca n't still get HTV . |
| 2 | She-She : " If you give the fifty cash , then seventy-five on the card plus the credit supplement which is 15 per cent else we lose on the rental or we have a spa-cheque policy which works out the same minus the 15 per cent with a ten-dollar supplement . |
| 3 | We do it that colour for now , and after we get open and organized , we change to the colour of my choice . ’ |
| 4 | Well we we ca n't say o overall but we started in a very small way but on average Dennis we raise in the region of two thousand pounds a year . |
| 5 | Again , as we launch into the second movement andante ( lots of energy , a real spirit of dance in the ostinato is a mite tasteful , discreet rather than craggily elemental ; so , to a point , is the brawny bass line which spurs us on to stratospheric violins and shining trumpets , though true to form Pešek is wonderfully atmospheric , nurturing and distilling the moments of quiet contemplation just prior to the coda . |
| 6 | Then we launch into the unknown future . |
| 7 | In practice we distinguish between the external cause of a rhythm , which is caused by our life-style or environment , and another internal cause , which we might say is due to a clock within our body . |
| 8 | We distinguish between the independent financial entity and the competitive units it owns . |
| 9 | Now we distinguish between the " explicit " and the " implicit " extensions of a convention . |
| 10 | But I will plan ahead , even if we crash into the Fourth Division . |
| 11 | We crash to the ground and roll fighting down the slope . |
| 12 | It was so hot we lay on the floor and watched the wheeling and turning of the planes and the occasional flare-up which told of a kill . |
| 13 | We lay on the hard , orange clay and went through the different procedures that we would use when we went off to fire on the shooting range . |
| 14 | ‘ We lay on the ground and kissed . |
| 15 | We danced , we drank , we lay on the beach telling stories . |
| 16 | We lay on the brink of its descent and rolled quickly downwards , our faces full of earth and grass one instant and then rotating madly and finally up to the brazen blue sky leaking through the trees . |
| 17 | Instead , we lay on the bed together , embracing , mouth to mouth . |
| 18 | We lay under the trees and slept . |
| 19 | What had come to the poets in their most serene or passionate moments we glided into as easily as we gathered flowers for Maud or Blanche or Mabel , as we lay in the grass with our eyes divided between the books , the land and the clouds . |
| 20 | With perfect buoyancy we lay in the current , drifting at no mean speed through the long fronds of kelp , angling our bodies to follow the curves of the bottom . |
| 21 | We all found him interesting , so when we lay in the sun after lunch , the white gravel covering our backs with powdery marks , his fighting demonstrations were keenly attended . |
| 22 | We lay in the grass looking up at the sky and the fluttering leaves on the silver birch trees , sucking on our reed stalks and talking about girls . |
| 23 | We had agreed not to talk about fitting-out problems and we lay in the sun drinking from the bottle Iain had humped up in his backpack . |
| 24 | We lay in the spring wind |
| 25 | Our arguments are based not only on our national interest but on the risks we perceive to the competitive position of the Community as a whole . |
| 26 | Some of us though , working at the ground , grass roots ma may not know that it goes on , and er , I would just like to take this opportunity of stressing how important it is to , that we communicate within the United Kingdom , and er , support Nigel 's er , suggestion that it would be useful to have a base down here . |
| 27 | But we can not explain why this is always objectionable , so long as we remain on the plane of justice as I have defined it . |
| 28 | ‘ Why , that 's no great problem while we remain at the abbot 's lodging , since half of Shrewsbury and a good part of the shire goes in and out freely at the abbey , and you may ask an audience whenever you will , and always find yourself one of three or four , various enough to keep any man in countenance . |
| 29 | In short , we remain with the division between sectors of the economy — between manufacturing and service industries — and between enterprises in the economy — between service companies and institutions . |
| 30 | However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled . |