Example sentences of "we [vb base] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lose its simplicity , its beauty , its joy , its expression of the inner source . |
| 2 | Lose the resurrection hope , though , and we lose our way . |
| 3 | We lose our temper , feel cornered and frightened , it can be the work of an instant . |
| 4 | If we lose our grip on this , if it gets away from us , we 'll be very unhappy , very embarrassed , and very much in debt to all sorts of people we prefer to control rather than be controlled by . |
| 5 | Right , we lose our shield . |
| 6 | Even this great cathedral will become a museum and mausoleum the day we lose our confidence in the resurrection . |
| 7 | Religion can not be divorced from morality in his view for it is belief in an ordered moral government of the universe and when we lose our basis in morality we cease to be religious . |
| 8 | If we change your holiday |
| 9 | IF WE CHANGE YOUR HOLIDAY |
| 10 | If we change your holiday arrangements |
| 11 | That pattern is repeated across Europe ; that is why we must ensure that we reduce and not add to the delays when we change our system and introduce new rights . |
| 12 | Wolfgang Iser ( 1974 , p.288 ) has provided us with a picture of the competent reader 's behaviour , for — as he says — when we read ‘ we look forward , we look back , we decide , we change our decisions , we form expectations , we are shocked by their nonfulfilment , we question , we muse , we accept , we reject ’ . |
| 13 | Therefore , if we change our attitude , we get rid of the craving that produces suffering . |
| 14 | So do I , but we change our definitions of everything to fit our most central desires . ’ |
| 15 | It would not be a source of comfort to the hardpressed British public if they were to become aware that ( reckoning our overseas statistics globally not a single bean of substance for themselves or of capital equipment for British manufacturers is likely to be left over from the American credit ; and that we shall require , on balance , the whole of it , and , unless we change our ways , much more to feed and sustain Allies , liberated territories and ex-enemies , to maintain our military prestige overseas , and , generally speaking to cut a dash in the world considerably above our means . |
| 16 | ‘ And if we raise its value , then Robert Menzies will raise our rent . ’ |
| 17 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 18 | 7 The following reflex pathway is the route along which impulses travel when we prick our hand on a sharp pin . |
| 19 | Today we launch our campaign , as the Community Care Act causes more elderly people than ever to rely on the six million people who care for relatives at home . |
| 20 | We perceive his doubt and weariness simultaneously as a natural reaction to circumstances , and as a temptation , even a phantasm or illusion of the Dark Tower . |
| 21 | Strict left-to-right strategies , while intuitively similar to the way we perceive our recognition of fluent speech , force computational systems to tackle immediately stretches of sound , which are of poor acoustic quality , or which are relatively unconstrained by higher level knowledge . |
| 22 | We communicate our inwardness in great waves , all about us , carrying it with us wherever we go . |
| 23 | But unless we communicate our desires and feelings to those who are involved , how on earth will they know ? |
| 24 | And I I hope that when we bring our initiatives to you next month , you will see how we are addressing that . |
| 25 | The hot shallows and seas we bring our blood from |
| 26 | You 've read previously of Christine Morey 's adventures in Romania and now we bring you Lori Adam 's account of her experiences in Thailand . |
| 27 | Now we always try to find you winners on Central South and tonight we bring you Leon Taylor of Cheltenham … his future is our Friday Feature |
| 28 | ‘ In the interest of reconstruction and peace and the need to minimise the potential threat to democratic advance … we declare our support for an interim government of national unity , ’ it said . |
| 29 | ‘ But we declare our solidarity with them . ’ |
| 30 | We pick our way through a rubbish dump and climb to the burial site , a stubbly patch on top of a rocky hill , surrounded by desolate bare mountains , looking like wrinkled old elephants ' hide . |