Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] we do " in BNC.
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| 1 | About one hundred million years ago , for reasons that we do not understand , the ammonite dynasty began to dwindle . |
| 2 | ‘ But check her for money before we do anything else . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know about England but we do use it here in Scotland . ’ |
| 4 | It takes a while for them to actually settle in , and they need quite a lot of support because we do work in teams and they 're quite well established teams with definite personalities . |
| 5 | the range of products that we do . |
| 6 | ( Of course since we do not know what happens in the jury room — and it is illegal to find out — the likelihood is that the jury will disregard the law and convict the accused of one offence or the other , hardly the best possible outcome . ) |
| 7 | But the danger is of course that we do n't cover everybody . |
| 8 | Now it could be said of course that we do n't offer the same kind of very intense opportunities that are on offer to undergraduates , but in some senses , and many adults have testified to this , this is an advantage , because it enables people in their own time , and sometimes over a fairly prolonged period , to explore with a tutor , a scholar , the kind of interests that they have in the issues that have concerned them in society . |
| 9 | Many of them have a wider spread of activities than we do , making things like glass containers , aluminium cans or paper and board products . |
| 10 | I 'm afraid Fran and I do n't get enough time with each other because we 're always so busy working , and that can lead to a lot of tension when we do meet . |
| 11 | There are various ways of improving the lot of hens but we do need to ask the hens themselves rather than make up their minds for them . |
| 12 | We use the same principle for getting money out of companies as we do getting products into them . |
| 13 | Perhaps I should just say a word about that that operation since you 've raised it , because it is one type of job that we do , that is taking part in a rather large group , in this case sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat at the request of the government of Uganda after the fall of erm of Amin , to assess the rehabilitation needs of the country and to suggest what policies should be priority policies for their point of view and what contribution could be made by other countries through aid and erm other ways of technical assistance and fellowships for training and so forth , to help in this rehabilitation . |
| 14 | Well er they would er Knowing the House of Commons as we do , there would inevitable be some catcalls and some hoots of derision . |
| 15 | I think either we as a Labour party are serious about having more women in the House of Commons and we do very badly compared with many of our European neighbours . |
| 16 | And I 'm going to get some tapes to Clare and the letter writing stuff , find out about a photocopying account , talk to about more tapes , transcription notes , erm meeting log forms , demographic transcription , and editing of transcription that we do . |
| 17 | Crewe says : ‘ We are not going for numbers — we have to stay contained to offer the level of service that we do and meet the needs of our existing customer base . ’ |
| 18 | Without it we could not possibly deliver the high quality of service that we do . |
| 19 | Okay Well and you 've seen the video so you 'll be aware of the sort of things that we do here . |
| 20 | . Let me say now , that most of things that we do in this part of the course , I do n't ask you to tell me what you 've written down , stress is a very personal thing , your reaction to it , so do n't worry , you write down anything that you want to write down , because it is for you . |
| 21 | God has set the seed of his Spirit in our hearts and intends to produce in us a crop of lovely qualities of character if we do not grieve the Spirit ( Eph. 4:30 ) by wilful disobedience or neglect . |
| 22 | And it is you know it seems to take up quite a bit of time for members of staff and we do as many as we can but sometimes we have to say sorry we we ca n't do any more this week . |
| 23 | We will never know what happened during that operation because , like most English people , we suffer from excessive politeness with figures of authority and we do n't question or harass them when their explanations seem superficial . |
| 24 | ‘ It is a matter of policy that we do not comment on any private correspondence which has been sent to the national secretary . ’ |
| 25 | We might just as well ask why , when we try to recall visually some period in the past , we find in our memory just the few meagre arbitrarily chosen set of snapshots that we do find there , the faded poor souvenirs of passionate moments . |
| 26 | It just might be a bit short of ink when we do . |
| 27 | ‘ No , the soul is in two parts : the gros bon ange is the big good angel , the part that deals with instinct and all the functions of life that we do without thinking about . ’ |
| 28 | This is a policy of indemnity and we do not pay damages for such items . |
| 29 | We may tend to assume that other companies and cultures operate with the same sorts of motivations and criteria of success as we do , despite the fact that Japanese companies , for instance , turn in a very low rate of profit compared to those in the United Kingdom , and indeed do not need to do so because of the low interest charges and ready availability of capital in their country . |
| 30 | We could be closed out of a lot of markets if we do n't employ environmentally sound principles . ’ |