Example sentences of "we [verb] [be] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as we are all different in our body weight and metabolism , so the type of diet we eat is influenced by factors which differ from person to person . |
| 2 | Unless we are confident that the meat we eat was produced without suffering , the equality principle ‘ implies that it was wrong to sacrifice important interests of the animal in order to satisfy less important interests of our own ’ ( 1979 : 57 ) . |
| 3 | Away from the roads , most areas we visited were populated by Indians : Cofan , Secoya and Siona in the north , Quichua and Huaorani ( Auca ) in the central part of the region , and the Shuar in the south . |
| 4 | The last thing we want is teaching by numbers , reducing learning to a series of mechanistic measured units . |
| 5 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 6 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us . |
| 8 | ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner . |
| 9 | We 'd been moaning to Malcolm about wanting to play some gigs . |
| 10 | Miller ( 1951 ) states that " the information we convey is coded into patterns of words . |
| 11 | If the complex we observed was required for PPT expression we would expect to see it in these cells . |
| 12 | All matter that we know is composed of atoms . |
| 13 | We are anxious to express our wholehearted support for the renewal , on a permanent basis , of the Nuclear-Non Proliferation Treaty — an objective which we know is shared by HMG . |
| 14 | 22–12 Another storm from SE we understand is telegraphed from America and is expected here tomorrow . |
| 15 | The first one was built in Germany and later , in 1968 , the one we use was built in Manchester . |
| 16 | Well today we were behind a G registration Jag and I turned to Paul and I said oh maybe that 's one of the Jaguars we saw being built in Coventry and I said no , no , no , corrected myself , I said could n't of been |
| 17 | ‘ All we do is go in convoy with a lorry or two . |
| 18 | We 've been moving at night . |
| 19 | We 've been inundated with calls from listeners wanting to know where you were . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
| 21 | What I can do is bring you someone now on the line who can tell us exactly why that decision was made and exactly why that money was spent in the way it was because we 've been joined by Councillor John Power . |
| 22 | Pauline : We 've been threatened by Steve Lamacq ! ! ! |
| 23 | We both wanted to win , I said , and now we 've been saved from temptation . |
| 24 | Towards which we 've been striving for weeks . |
| 25 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 26 | ‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices . |
| 27 | said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat |
| 28 | All this week we 've been looking at life inside Grendon Prison in Buckinghamshire . |
| 29 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 30 | We 've been looking at horticulture on a grand scale . |