Example sentences of "we [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We regret letters can not be answered personally . |
| 2 | We regret children under three are not accepted . |
| 3 | Well I , I look on this all with a I do n't think , I do n't think we regret East Devon a step with every everything you come to . |
| 4 | We should attend to the fact that knowledge of the external world means representing a lot of facts at once , so many facts that we lose hold of the idea of ‘ representation ’ . |
| 5 | In the fluidity of contemporary values we do indeed sink into a relativism for which your opinion is worth as much or little as mine whenever we lose faith in awareness itself , and surrender to irrationalism . |
| 6 | Obviously we lose money if clubs start cancelling matches but we are fortunate to have alternative waters , ’ said Roger . |
| 7 | ‘ We lose money on recycling , ’ he admits . |
| 8 | because there will be jobs where we lose money . |
| 9 | In fact we lose money either way . |
| 10 | However , this can not be divorced from the fact that , in the minds of the Soviet leadership , Soviet prestige had become inextricably linked to the fate of Cuba : ‘ One thought kept hammering away at my brain : what will happen if we lose Cuba ? |
| 11 | Looking down at the fish we lose sight of its great depth and instead see how thin it is across the back . |
| 12 | But , like observers of cricket , we must not become so engrossed in our analysis of the statistics of the game that we lose sight of the fundamental issues of strategy . |
| 13 | But if we exaggerate the earlier parallels to the announcement made in Tintern Abbey and The Prelude we lose sight of Wordsworth 's purpose and of his originality in terms of the philosophic situation in 1798 . |
| 14 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that too often we lose sight of the fact that the national health service was born as a result of co-operation between three parties ? |
| 15 | Enthusiasm is closely linked with interest , for it is only when things cease to interest us that we lose enthusiasm . |
| 16 | For each hour we use on the project we could say we lose £5 contribution . |
| 17 | We dare not let ourselves make contact with it in case we lose control , and weep and weep without ever stopping . |
| 18 | The irony is that having frittered our energies away in our endeavour to possess the object of our desire , having done all we can , even lied or deceived in order to obtain the object of our desire , we lose interest in that object because , whether consciously or not , we realize that we have not found lasting satisfaction or peace of mind . |
| 19 | How long before we lose interest ? |
| 20 | ‘ I think when we lose people , it 's more upsetting if they just suddenly die and we have n't had the opportunity to do the tending and caring . |
| 21 | ‘ Sometimes , now , we lose focus and assume we 're going to win . ’ |
| 22 | So long as people can milk the benefits of contracting out , but still return when the gains run out , the Government is in a heads they win , tails we lose situation . |
| 23 | But the style is sometimes so impressionistic that we lose track of which island we are on , and to whom we are talking . |
| 24 | Such a consideration did not arise in connection with Sainte-Agathe , however , and when Jean-Claude felt he needed to refresh his memory of details , we rode cross-country to the village . |
| 25 | We rode north to the ferry and , God knows how , got across the Forth . |
| 26 | We got charge accounts at Max 's Kansas City , we got a charge account with a limousine service — we rode limousines instead of taxis because we did n't have to pay for limousines and we 'd have to pay the taxis — so we were always in limousines . |
| 27 | At the Church Meeting on the 9th , we appointed Jim Brooks as our new church secretary in succession to Malcolm Brown who had intimated in June his desire to step down from the post . |
| 28 | Well it does really , I mean if we , it 's a question of whether the budget will stand the staff , is n't it , it 's not whether we , er I mean in terms of of redundancies it 's whether we cou , if we appointed people we could afford to keep them on , whether or not there was work , I mean we could have create work in some senses . |
| 29 | At the end of May we appointed Jeremy Logie to the position of Cheif Executive . |
| 30 | ( 1 ) A change in the content of the curriculum is justified because it is the content which is intrinsically worth while and any improvement in content is ipso facto an improvement in education ; i.e. we change subject content for its own sake . |