Example sentences of "we [vb base] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the fourth and last day we land in paradise : 45 Sandford Road , Dublin , the home of Helen Dillon , a gardener whose plants are encouraged and castigated like a wayward infants ' class . |
| 2 | ‘ We regret in respect of the national anthems our undertaking has been violated and breached and we apologise unconditionally to anyone who has been offended by this breach ’ . |
| 3 | We change into drier — not dry — kit and go again . |
| 4 | Whether they believe that we change through investigation of the unconscious mind , through investigation of the relationship that forms between a therapist and client , through group experience or through changing patterns of behaviour will depend to some extent on which one of these experiences they can best identify with themselves . |
| 5 | We distinguish between fact and fiction but there is , it would seem , precious little that we can say about this distinction beyond asserting it . |
| 6 | We lay at ease , an arm loose round a waist , |
| 7 | We lay in bed and counted them , knowing that only eight had gone out . |
| 8 | ‘ The first night after we 'd moved in , we lay in bed and cried , ’ said Rita . |
| 9 | We lay in bed with the window open . |
| 10 | The urbanity which we perceive as part of Anderson 's character is frequently related to his violations of the maxim of manner . |
| 11 | He uses three premisses : that houses , mountains , and rivers , are what we perceive by sense ; that what we perceive by sense are ‘ our own ideas or sensations ’ ; and that ideas can not exist unperceived . |
| 12 | He uses three premisses : that houses , mountains , and rivers , are what we perceive by sense ; that what we perceive by sense are ‘ our own ideas or sensations ’ ; and that ideas can not exist unperceived . |
| 13 | Finally , ideas sometimes have a ‘ steadiness , order , and coherence ’ and come in ‘ a regular train or series ’ : ‘ when we perceive by sight a certain round luminous figure , we at the same time perceive by touch the idea or sensation called heat . ’ |
| 14 | In the vast majority of face-to-face situations we communicate via speech backed up by non-verbal gestures and signs . |
| 15 | With Anton the Dove Fancier we remain with grief , but return to clarity and simplicity . |
| 16 | ‘ If we remain in unity for three months then we will win the battle , ’ said Mr Bisztyga at a briefing before yesterday 's Central Committee plenum . |
| 17 | ‘ We are very comfortable at Government House and Lady Franklin will not hear of our going from it so long as we remain in town . |
| 18 | ‘ If we suffer in life , it is only to earn our way into His Celestial Mansion when we die . ’ |
| 19 | As in the UK , Christmas was slow to start , with sales at Hannas really taking off from mid-December — ‘ We had marvellous dry weather in the weekend prior to Christmas and we advertise on radio every year , which we find effective . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ If a girl is interested in horses , we advertise in horse magazines ’ . |
| 21 | In particular , when increasing θ , we pivot in row i , with , minimising over such rows and , when decreasing 0 , in row i with maximising over such rows . |
| 22 | In each tableau we find θ using ( 6.4b ) ( θ is equal to θ for the previous tableau ) and , assuming that there is a unique j ( say j = k ) which achieves the maximum in ( 6.4b ) , we pivot in column k and repeat the process . |
| 23 | We insist on integrity because we believe that internal compromises would deny what is often called " equality before the law " and sometimes " formal equality . " |
| 24 | The ‘ endless way of the last lines extends the travelling into a metaphor for the journey we make through life ( compare The Pilgrim 's Progress ) . |
| 25 | Finally , we make for home , heading past Vengsøya towards the mainland . |
| 26 | The following day we make for Beech Park with its luxuriant walled garden , and Butterstream , an enchanted blend of romance and formality . |
| 27 | Even the simplest , most basic requirement we make of translation can not be met without difficulty : one can not always match the content of a message in language A by an expression with exactly the same content in language B , because what can be expressed and what must be expressed is a property of a specific language in much the same way as how it can be expressed . |
| 28 | A lot of foods we make from wheat flour often tend to be very high in calories , seem to be almost irresistible to hungry slimmers , and are often used as ‘ binge ’ g=foods by compulsive eaters . |
| 29 | In the foregrounding model , stylistic value has a slightly different meaning from that which it has in the " stylistic variants " model : it refers to the special act of interpretation which we make in order to make sense of what would otherwise appear strange and unmotivated . |
| 30 | I think that might be slightly different in terms of the environment , but nonetheless I think there is a way of encouraging children to think about and to be thoughtful about the sorts of choices that we make in life and the effects of our behaviour , without overwhelming them with the sense that it in fact is their responsibility . |