Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] we [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually the Corporal gave me a cigarette , and in due course we pulled over at a roadside cafe to have a cup of coffee and to stretch our legs . |
| 2 | Leontief , whose concern for the horses faced by technical change we have already noted , advances two further arguments against compensation theory . |
| 3 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 4 | Every day we had tackled a different walk , each enriched by the gentle Gozitan kindness we net along the way . |
| 5 | And although they 're facing out of the wind now , you ought to know that this is n't the usual wind we get here . |
| 6 | The alpine char we had already caught at 220 m , weighing around 220 g each , would not have registered at that depth . |
| 7 | er I 'm afraid Chairman we do n't have the final account here |
| 8 | ‘ To tell you the truth , I had n't realised quite how much I 'd got in the habit of the kind of organised chaos we worked under at St Margaret 's . |
| 9 | ‘ What 's your estimate of the value of the electronic gear we have aboard ? ’ |
| 10 | The way to secure future prosperity is by embracing change not resisting it and as my honourable friend er indicates , by using our skills to best effect and competitively in a global market place were we to embrace the policies of members opposite in the European community we would shut the job , the door to the jobs which will come from that inward investment because we have opted out of the social chapter we do indeed have the opportunity that comes from being , if I may qui may quote er President Delors a pa a paradise for inward investment . |
| 11 | Inevitably , with inflation , only a small group profited but they were the men who directed some important changes in the country 's agricultural and industrial patterns , and whose conspicuous consumption we have already seen . |
| 12 | A German tourist we met there , who had come tourist class from Cuzco , told us how she had given money and pens at each stop to the children who crowded the carriage windows . |
| 13 | Yes , we have a free day tomorrow — actually the first really free day we have ever had here — i.e. not only free of teaching but also free of official sight-seeing arrangements . |
| 14 | By extrapolating from present trends , but also from applying the theoretical knowledge we have about typical organisational behaviour , we can engage in some informed speculation . |
| 15 | A good diagrammatic representation to match the adjectival behaviour we have just specified is not easy to devise . |
| 16 | " Oh , it 's a bet we had with Sandra , " one of the girls giggled , " but she 's such an old fibber we do n't believe she 's won it . " |
| 17 | Every year after I became chairman of British Steel we set aside one board meeting at which the objectives of the organisation were raised . |
| 18 | In that trance-like state we drift apart , still staring , but when I turn aside it 's as if we snapped a silken cord . |
| 19 | A portion of the top floor we 'd completely sealed off with walls of polythene sheeting , and a powerful dehumidifier had been installed . |
| 20 | Moreover , some appear to consist of little more than the ‘ active constituents ’ of the dietary regimen we have already described — a regime whose effectiveness is not accepted by all research workers . |
| 21 | But in social time and social space we make just such distinctions and we do so in a very consistent way . |
| 22 | Mr refers to European law and environmental statements that was passed into British legislation we have fully complied with that . |
| 23 | For the convenience of those who like foreign food we have double listed some of Edinburgh 's most popular foreign restaurants under countries . |
| 24 | Obvious cracks soared to the left and right , reminiscent of Fairhead in Antrim , but I craved subtlety after the brutal corner we 'd just climbed . |
| 25 | There are net nowhere where we are using both one-off and fortuitous savings in certain budget heads to meet unavoidable expenditure we come on within the year , and therefore keep within the Committee 's overall cash limit for the year . |
| 26 | Instead of trying to switch people from the old track we start afresh and just ignore the old track . |
| 27 | Furthermore , points out O'Connor ( 1973 p 123 ) , because languages have " different numbers of phonemes , and different allophones representing them , it follows that in a foreign language we do not hear the sounds in the same way as a native speaker does … |
| 28 | The most interesting regime is therefore 2 b 1.8 , where C clusters can grow in regions of D and also D clusters can grow in regions of C. As intuition might suggest , in this interesting regime we find chaotically varying spatial arrays , in which C and D both persist in shifting patterns . |
| 29 | ( Saline solution we have already . ) |
| 30 | He said : ’ there is no statistical evidence that is known to me at the present time of people who are actually being discharged from the private sector We do not have evidence to bring to you of a substantial number of people who have been discharged against their will from the private sector . ’ |