Example sentences of "we [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we launch into a debate about last week 's Clash front cover , GW 's jaunty , surprisingly Big Country-tinged epic kind of ends , unlamented . ) |
| 2 | All except ( 6 ) have an introductory adverbial clause or phrase providing a point of orientation before we launch into a main clause . |
| 3 | We launch into a little Talmudic logic-chopping of our own on the question of free will and responsibility when a dybbuk is in residence . |
| 4 | This is a case in which we distinguish between a person 's body as it appears to that person , and as it appears to others . |
| 5 | And in the dark , when we lay beneath a single sheet and I gave off a Calabrian sweat , when the middle stretch of the night was shorter but still hard to get through — then , as I turned towards that loose S beside me , she would , with a soft murmur , try to lift the lost hair from the back of her neck . |
| 6 | That 's an interesting problem , the way we communicate to a computer is not the way we necessarily think of it . |
| 7 | While recognising that conflict is something we bring to a relationship and is not inherent in the substance of the relationship itself , the circumstances of those relationships can nonetheless bring enormous pressure to bear on the responses we may make . |
| 8 | There is no logical starting point , since we bring to a literary text simultaneously two faculties , however imperfectly developed : our ability to respond to it as a literary work and our ability to observe its language . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Irritation can also be caused by inflammation such as when we suffer from a cold or allergy . |
| 11 | My group has nothing to be ashamed of , but , like everybody else nowadays , we suffer from a general shortage of cash . |
| 12 | Cos we advertise in a special format do n't we ? |
| 13 | ‘ If they want something manufactured to their own spec , OK , but we insist on a thumping great order or a high price . ’ |
| 14 | And we cause the hunger and poverty , we , as the West , not necessarily as individuals because we insist on a lifestyle that acquires things and in doing that , er we 've subverted God . |
| 15 | Occupational background can emblazon the personality with unmistakable illumination for the endeavours we make towards a better and more acceptable society . |
| 16 | But since the initial motion was put forward by the policy and resources committee the question of local government review has become more prominent within the minds of this council and other councils across the country , and I think that issue needs to be addressed before we make as a cou , a council our final decision on the County Farms estate . |
| 17 | No notice , right with these are exactly the same as those now alright so what we 're going to do is we 're going to subtract right , if we subtract from a , subtract b from a all those terms that run off into infinity , we 're gon na drop out , okay . |
| 18 | For simplicity we concentrate on a subset of occam : timing , priority , vectors , constants , replicators and named processes ( procedures ) are omitted . |
| 19 | Here , we concentrate on a partial equilibrium story and explore how economic agents tackle a rather difficult dynamic decision problem ; in later work we shall embed this story in a market context , but this first step will enable us to isolate certain elements in the market story . |
| 20 | We concentrate for a while on I , the principle of induction . |
| 21 | Before going on to the detailed issues , let me begin by discussing some general aspects of what we mean by a crossroads and by the international position of an economy . |
| 22 | What we mean by a grapheme is the written representation of a single phoneme — so , for example , the PH in CHOOPH , is a single grapheme because it represents a single phoneme . |
| 23 | This argument , which amounts to a discussion of what we mean by a miracle , will occupy the rest of this chapter . |
| 24 | The area , I mean , we back onto a big council estate . |
| 25 | We sit on a bench beneath a tree as the sky begins to spit cool rain . |
| 26 | We sit on a thoughtfully placed bench with our backs against a hollow in the hillside and look out over the island , back towards Fionnphort , to the beginning of our long journey homeward . |
| 27 | Bailey gives me instant coffee and a plate of Tesco jam doughnuts , still in their plastic packet , and we sit at a dusty picnic table outside , slapping off flies . |
| 28 | It is through literature that we grow into a particular kind of awareness of ourselves and — an inseparable corollary — of our manifold relations with each other and all that is not self , without which there is really not much ‘ self ’ to talk about . |
| 29 | We report on a |
| 30 | We report on a case of thrombosis of a splenic artery pseudoaneurysm complicating chronic pancreatitis . |