Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You remember in France , the er they made you where we kept walking round the table and er she sa , anyway said er fish soup ? |
| 2 | That 's not to say that we stop looking at it , and we 'll be looking in more and more detail at the workloads , matched up against the resources , as we get better information . |
| 3 | Then I realized that we kept returning to the same place and stopping for a few minutes , before moving off again around a similar route . |
| 4 | ‘ You made the condition that we dance according to the music , ’ he reminded her . |
| 5 | It 's become a truism that we despise ageing in this culture , and I see few signs of that abating . |
| 6 | For three years now we had moved stealthily through the darkness , sometimes absurdly confident , sometimes terrified , but always wondering just what sort of man it was that we heard creeping along the wall towards us and what sort of weapon he had in his hand . |
| 7 | Although most commentators have claimed that Berkeley 's principal opponent was Descartes , whom he cited as an example only in the second ( 1710 ) edition , he was more generally denying the widely-received assumption that we see according to the laws of geometry — this assumption being central to the perspectivist tradition . |
| 8 | Because she wars brightly coloured clothes , Clarissa sticks to blue eyeliner and heavy , fibrous mascara — a look that we suggested updating with less clogging , but lashthickening mascaras . |
| 9 | We all need a goal and once we are well on the way to achieving it , then it is essential that we start thinking about another one . |
| 10 | Actually , I always wanted to write a play about how life gets so tedious that we start reminiscing about what happened two minutes ago . |
| 11 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |
| 12 | The Ruff-stuff 's tracks swept off to the right so we kept walking to the left . |
| 13 | I says oh I du n no , I said oh Sharon 'll fetch dad over , so we sat waiting for her and then they come |
| 14 | I know it is n't easy but erm I think we should you know , try and we advertise starting at eight o'clock and very often there 's only Alan and I here at eight . |
| 15 | He come at me and he was six foot two and he come he were gon na knock hell out of me so I had to protect myself and we got fighting in the shop . |
| 16 | I was keeping a glass of chablis company the other day with Jonathan Hayden and Fiona Brownlee from Pavilion Books , and we got talking about what might have happened in grown-up life to the heroes and heroines of the children 's books of our youth . |
| 17 | Marty and Jean who ran Granny Takes A Trip were mates of Malcolm 's and they all used to meet up after work in the pub Sometimes Nick would be there too and we got talking to him . |
| 18 | So Wendy came on the Wednesday and we got going with all the office work here . |
| 19 | We never have and never will — and we hate riding in limos . |
| 20 | Manchester design company Lord & Bowes has developed its new look , including an editorial column and news roundup , and we intend continuing with our lengthier informative features . |
| 21 | At 7 o'clock in the morning there was no certainty of getting one quickly and we kept rushing to the window until someone shouted ‘ Here it comes ’ … |
| 22 | This president behind me led a delegation of er fourteen of us , one of 'em got a gold badge yesterday , Eric , half of 'em sat down there , and we went canvassing in Rochdale , last election , just before ninth of April , that disaster we had . |
| 23 | The delegation left and we continued waiting until 6 p.m. when the news came through that the TUC were holding a press conference . |
| 24 | Too many British rap tracks try and copy American stuff , but our sound has evolved through time and we keep branching into different styles . ’ |
| 25 | For my part , I told her that I was sure Aisha had a lover and we began searching for proof . |
| 26 | We had a tape of African music on and we began dancing at about midnight . |
| 27 | And we read that and we start thinking of richness in the terms of pounds and pence and material possessions . |
| 28 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 29 | We were both nervous wrecks and we started fighting with each other . ’ |
| 30 | Sandra explains : ‘ We moved here because of the rural location and we love walking in the Welsh mountains . |