Example sentences of "we [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If the horse is thumped by the farrier , or we belt it with a cane , the horse is likely to become so upset that the chances are we will never be able to shoe the horse ! |
2 | But we change it at a company level . |
3 | ‘ We display them on a kind of rotation system , ’ he told her . |
4 | ‘ We make it on the premises , ’ replied the waitress , thawing in the face of Dimity 's enthusiasm . |
5 | We pat them on the back , as if they were dogs ; |
6 | " We sell them for a penny each , " Miss Poraway explained . |
7 | ‘ We sell it as a novelty and make people sign a declaration saying they understand it is illegal to use it on the UK phone system . |
8 | We book them into the Seaview and the Esplanade and give them a comradely nosh-up at the Claremont . |
9 | It really does come down to , I do n't know , I mean , every year we play it very honestly and very straight , and we push him in a position where next year , if there is a next year , I think the last time that we played it straight we got clobbered , so let's pay a little bit less , and keep a bit back for when they come round a second time round . |
10 | We 've got our single layer network as we know so we take all our inputs we push them through the decoders and we 've got our single layer after that . |
11 | You 'll see that reflected by the European press and the public as we introduce it on the continent next year . |
12 | Martin seems to be missing by a distance as we joust it round the table , so after half a dozen exchanges I go down with much confidence on a half-ball cut into the bottom left-hand pocket . |
13 | We grow them in the Philippines . |
14 | Now we place him in a house . |
15 | If , now , we place him in the pantheon of Afro-Asian leaders who decisively influenced the course of events it is because he was a survivor , to whom the drama of revolutionary struggle was an end in itself . |
16 | Before we forget it at the end . |
17 | A superficially similar case may differ from this one in some subtle matter of detail the relevance of which we will only recognize when we encounter it in the concrete . |
18 | We send him on a B S five four double O course . |
19 | If we send it to the manager , care of Mr Arthur . |
20 | George Watson , responding to this proposal , asserted that such topics were inappropriate for a course leading to a degree called " English " , and in any case dismissed both marxism and structuralism as outmoded " intellectual dinosaurs " : " No doubt a university is the place to study discredited intellectual systems ; but we risk derision if we propose them to the exclusion of others . " |
21 | We want him for a month on loan to give him a proper chance . ’ |
22 | But if we want it as a function , right , I give you this person 's name is Sophie say , and she maps to her father . |
23 | We 've argued for years about meals on wheel service that there should be seven day a week service throughout this authority , we 've only got it in the City , we want it throughout the authority . |
24 | I said we want it behind the shed . |
25 | We transport you into a world of intrigue and illusion … clowns , if you like , murderers — we can do you ghosts and battles , on the skirmish level , heroes , villains , tormented lovers — set pieces in the poetic vein ; we can do you rapiers or rape or both , by all means , faithless wives and ravished virgins — flagrante delicto at a price , but that comes under realism for which there are special terms . |
26 | Either we grab 'im by the beard — ’ |
27 | I think it 's from the organization 's point of view , from our statement of purpose , business plan , yeah , we do want people to achieve certain things , and therefore we provide them with the training to be able to do that . |
28 | Why do you think it might be important that we think about what we say and how we say it on the telephone ? erm There is a gap here for you to respond ! |
29 | When we watch a TV police thriller , we match it against a schema which contains certain characters , playing particular roles in certain sequences of events , m a plot with certain episodes and a particular outcome . |
30 | ‘ He 's got party tricks like shaking hands , and when we walk him to the shops on a lead he loves being cuddled by children and old people . |