Example sentences of "[noun] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other car , the other De Dion we had , burst its radiator , but we are very resourceful ; we went and bought thirty foot of garden hose and connected it to the engine and sent the water round and round the car and that acted as a radiator , and we drove it for a week like that . |
| 2 | ‘ In my borough we have a lot of odd-shaped kitchens . |
| 3 | From Blakethwaite Dams we walked on south past the shooting box belonging to Lord Peel 's estate through a landscape which was now a desert of lead-mine spoil , called on the map by the strangely incongruous name of Merry Field . |
| 4 | At Frinton we played a one-armed bandit for two whole clattering hours and never attained three fruits in a row — but did we mope ? |
| 5 | BRANCHING OUT : Ivan Bennett of Southport with some of his treasured trees : ‘ Bonsai has become my religion we live off each other ’ Picture : STEPHEN SHAKESHAFT |
| 6 | Whatever self-image we come to accept when we are very young , that is the one we seek to perpetuate by finding others to treat us as we subconsciously believe we deserve . |
| 7 | Erm distance and speed we have n't done distance and speed erm |
| 8 | Patients are entitled to receive accurate information about their treatment and the risks we ask them to take ; they also have a right to withhold consent from such treatment if they feel unhappy about accepting these risks . |
| 9 | It is time we take an honest look at what we do , how we do it and who we do it with , and learn to minimise the risks we take . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You know damn well I 've never blamed you for what happened that night ; it was one of those risks we had to take . |
| 12 | The risks we face now 2 |
| 13 | THE RISKS WE FACE NOW |
| 14 | The anti-smoking campaigns in the media in the last few years have made everyone aware of the risks we run if we continue to smoke . |
| 15 | Whenever any structure seeks to inhibit or censor the arts we have to question their motives . ’ |
| 16 | So coming off the top of the furnace we have a mixture of nitrogen , quite a lot of that , carbon monoxide and a bit of carbon dioxide . |
| 17 | This tax invoice now assumes many of the characteristics we have come to associate with an internal VAT invoice , for not only will it show the customer 's VAT number , it will also be used by the UK acquirer of goods from within the EC as evidence to recover acquisition tax . |
| 18 | The main buyers and holders of bills , sometimes called the ‘ market makers ’ , are the nine discount houses , members of the London Discount Market Association ( LDMA ) , whose characteristics we described in section 3.3 . |
| 19 | The slow , deliberate verse movement ; the invocation of such abstractions as ‘ fortitude and patient chear ’ ; the careful avoidance of metaphorical expressions ; the weight of moral earnestness ; the balancing of word against word , of phrase against phrase , of the first half against the second half of the poem — in listing these characteristics we move back fifty years . |
| 20 | make sense of written material we need to know more than simply the ‘ linguistic ’ characteristic of the text : in addition to these characteristics we need to recognise that any writing system is deeply embedded in attitudinal , cultural , economic and technological constraints … reading and writing are therefore also sociolinguistic activities . |
| 21 | But , after a public meeting , the Muslim community 's spokesman Dr Hanif Mohammed said : ‘ The people now seem to understand the washroom we have built is just used to symbolically wash the bodies . |
| 22 | Shorthand , pitman ty erm my gawd we 've got a door . |
| 23 | The further north we reached the more weird and wonderful floating contraptions we encountered , merchant ships converted to drilling barges , special pipe-laying barges which were mini-townships within themselves with populations of up to 200 crewmen . |
| 24 | In obstetrics and gynaecology we have implemented an objective structured clinical examination ( OSCE ) . |
| 25 | And I think the way we did it we marked down the three shops we wanted to do and make sure you do those three shops . |
| 26 | look at this traffic coming in now I think the way we did it , we marked down the three shops we wanted to do |
| 27 | According to the itinerary Wednesday was a rest day but after a half-hearted attempt at browsing around the Keswick shops we decided that the call of the fells was too strong to resist and headed for the Langdales . |
| 28 | I mean I ca n't even know what shops we want . |
| 29 | They are more explicit than , but have the same implication as , the more general guidelines we made . |
| 30 | With the larger numbers to be attained , attempts will be made to correlate our findings with various clinical features and environmental factors , to analyse the meaning of the association we described the present study . |