Example sentences of "[vb -s] we [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For history reveals , time and again , that while vertical thinking can bring our full intellectual powers to bear upon a problem and thus to consolidate a position , it is chance that causes us to stumble upon it ( both the problem and its possible solution ) in the first place . |
| 2 | Logique du sens causes us to reflect on matters that philosophy has neglected for many centuries : the event ( assimilated in a concept , from which we vainly attempted to extract it in the form of a fact , verifying a proposition , of actual experience , a modality of the subject , of concreteness , the empirical content of history ) ; and the phantasm ( reduced in the name of reality and situated at the extremity , the pathological pole , of a normative sequence : perception-image-memory-illusion ) . |
| 3 | After Daniel Bonnal , Hélène de Roquefeuil is featuring the Milanese Alessandro Traina , who causes us to meditate on the notion of time by juxtaposing a variety of disparate materials . |
| 4 | All kinds of conditioning causes us to act in a way that we know is contrary to what we really want . |
| 5 | Pride causes us to want to be seen as the best , but we will often use the strategy of holding others back to make sure we stay there . |
| 6 | Why it should be so in the case of the United Kingdom constitution is , again , a matter of history — and perhaps it again behoves us to bear in mind that the constitution is a process , rather than a settled state of things . |
| 7 | Erm , and then we get requests for things from the leader of the Council directly , that he wants us to respond to , the chair of that committee to erm will , will do the same thing , we 'll get requests from other departments relating to our work , some of which might of been you , we erm , the Council has a group for the finance advisory group , which is a small group of Councillor 's and officer 's that meet to discuss not in , in public session , key erm financial and other major policy erm issues that , and the reason why that group was set up , erm was that it felt like with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Local Government Housing and Finance Tax , that it needed outside the committee cycle to erm review the impact of those legislation to look at it 's finances more closely and what , and we as a policy team report into that group and get request from work from that group as well . |
| 8 | ‘ When it 's all done and Michel has made an honest woman of her , Constanza wants us to go to Rome , the three of us , and pay our respects to her papa . |
| 9 | She wants us to go to Mr . |
| 10 | Now in some respects what I think should happen , is we should , yeah we should not be negative about going on the course , but in terms of the financial implications I 'm very worried about that and I think there is a erm , there is some need for the client to say , that if he wants us to go on this course we 're happy to go on it , but that he should look seriously at financing and he plus it should have been in the tender document . |
| 11 | are rather different , if the builder wants us to borrow on their behalf , that 's one thing , whether we should borrow on our behalf , is a question that one has to . |
| 12 | And yo you 're never gon na guess what he wants us to do for our final bit of course work ? |
| 13 | For Bernstein , this is to experience the music at second hand ; he wants us to live through the emotional upheaval rather than be merely aware of its implications . |
| 14 | He wants us to account for our stewardship . |
| 15 | To see hooligans as destructive is to miss the subtlety of their actions — it is , in a sense , to be conned by the hooligan into believing what he wants us to believe about him . |
| 16 | These rhetorical features seem , however , to suffer from being at odds with the rest of the passage , as if James wants us to catch in them a certain false emotionalism in the tone of the speaker . |
| 17 | ‘ The Commanding Officer wants us to think of this operation as a five furlong sprint . |
| 18 | I 'm not quite sure what her motives for being nude were — has she said ? — but if that 's the way she wants us to think of her that 's fine |
| 19 | Because God 's home is always open , it means that we are always welcome and there is always forgiveness , God is giving us space to present himself to our hearts as a God of love but at the same time as a God who wants us to grow into his likeness . |
| 20 | The mistress wants us to look for her tomorrow . |
| 21 | Last year , you know , totally rat-arsed. now , he 's putting up a list of all the poems he wants us to look at for next week . |
| 22 | The sort of encounter that he wants us to have with him . |
| 23 | ‘ Mr Butters has placed obstacles in our path all the way while at the same time stating that he wants us to stay at Belle Vue . |
| 24 | I 'm not suggesting that we should n't care about these little games and trifling details of life , for God wants us to practise on them in this world ; but I would like to see us not so strained and frantic in our concern about them . |
| 25 | It is this rage which draws us in , which has us participating in Hemingway 's feelings before we know it , that makes the piece so powerful . |
| 26 | Because he will have to leave early to join up again with Australia , he feels he owes us runs from the word go . |
| 27 | ‘ Uncle Jake says we 've to be down for breakfast in a quarter of an hour . ’ |
| 28 | She says we went on a bus tour and learnt about the architecture and colleges . |
| 29 | There 's one that says we live in parallel |
| 30 | The third part of the idea he says we have of body , its ability to communicate motion by impulse , follows from solidity too . |