Example sentences of "we [vb base] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We lay in the spring wind |
| 8 | However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled . |
| 9 | Cos we advertise in a special format do n't we ? |
| 10 | In P1/T2 this means and we pivot in the x 1 -column ( and x 2 -row by the PRS rule ) to get P1/T5 . |
| 11 | The reader should check that P1/T2 remains optimal for and that we pivot in the x 1 -column when 0 = ⅙ and the s 1 -column when θ = - . |
| 12 | If we pivot in the first of these , as indicated in the tableau , we obtain P3/T2 in which θ = θ . |
| 13 | By the usual pivot column selection rule , we pivot in the σ 3 -column to obtain P2/T6 ( ignore numbers in brackets , pro tem . ) . |
| 14 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 15 | And we si and we sing it upstairs and she goes wandering up the stairs and we hide in the airing cupboard ! |
| 16 | We require also to recruit and motivate the best people and this in turn requires a good reputation , not only for the goods we make and the worthiness of our contribution to society , but also the way in which we do these things , the sort of people we employ and the contributions we make in the area , and whether we are good citizens or not . |
| 17 | Things we make in the UK are much more readily exportable than they used to be because of this . |
| 18 | To demonstrate , then , that prices are inflexible in the sense that we mean in the remainder of this chapter , it has to be established that the price may deviate from its equilibrium value over a given interval . |
| 19 | WE SIT in an eyrie above London 's Drury Lane , an eyrie with a lease that 's about to run out . |
| 20 | We sit in the bar there and have a drink and someone might discreetly tell us who 's upstairs . |
| 21 | At night we sit in the cafés on the front , people come and go , there is an excited bustle … |
| 22 | ‘ The tabloids are the tabloids , ’ Mister C concludes later as we sit in the bar after the soundcheck . |
| 23 | We sit in the big room and watch some unedited footage from the ‘ Runaway ’ video . |
| 24 | We sit in the boma , the place de l'Étoile of Masai life . |
| 25 | We sit in the lounge off his bedroom , on the top floor of the hotel , smoking Js and drinking whisky . |
| 26 | We sit in the living-room for half an hour while members of the family drift by , sleepy-eyed , preparing for work and school . |
| 27 | We sit in the deep armchairs , both brooding on private thoughts . |
| 28 | A third advantage , pointed out by Labov ( 1981 : 25 ) , is that ‘ by emphasising deeper studies of groups and social networks , we gain in the possibility of explaining linguistic behaviour ’ , in other words , we might derive insights into why a speaker 's language occupies a particular position in a wider social structure . |
| 29 | If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients . |
| 30 | We manoeuvre in the world constantly looking out for Number One . |