Example sentences of "[adv] we [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in terms of actual control , we have forsworn many other areas where hitherto we sought to control by centralized edict . |
| 2 | ‘ We are happy to support local schemes which wo n't worsen our mainstream business , and while hitherto we 've waited for passenger executives or consortiums to come to us with a proposal , we might in the future consider taking more initiative . ’ |
| 3 | Then suddenly we had to leave for London , so I suppose the call-up people did n't know where I was . |
| 4 | Quite suddenly we had driven into soft , damp sand , grey and treacherous . |
| 5 | However much we try to stave off the raw realities of birth and childcare — with pain-killing drugs , for instance — they must somehow be taken into account , or they will force their way through into consciousness in even more painful ways . |
| 6 | It 's an important question , because unless we remember the past , we 'll forget how much we have achieved during the last years . |
| 7 | What is becoming increasingly evident is how much we have to learn from dolphins — and how much they may have to teach us . |
| 8 | To a very large extent the way our primary schools develop in the future will be a comment on how much we have learned from the largely fruitless traditionalist v progressive debate of the '60s and '70s . |
| 9 | We can delay cashing orders whenever the need arises and we have complete control over them and how much we save depending on the particular needs of the children at a particular time . |
| 10 | ‘ Naturally we 've talked about the investigation . ’ |
| 11 | In erm Romans chapter three and verse twenty seven it says that er Jesus died for our sins and I 'd just like to leave this thought with you , that n er just like me , when I could have died the other week in that plane crash , that none of us knows how long we 've got on this life and , however long or short it is , there 's no time like the present to get right with God if you , if you are n't and the only way to do that is through Jesus . |
| 12 | For too long we have lived with no expectation of renewal , or growth , or power . |
| 13 | For too long we have sat on the fence regarding when a lone rescuer should leave a collapsed victim to seek medical help . |
| 14 | ‘ Or perhaps we 've strayed into a black hole , ’ Philip Swallow continues , evidently enchanted with his flight of astronomical fancy . |
| 15 | In the light of this difficulty , perhaps we need to speculate on the Code 's purpose in a wider , policy-making context . |
| 16 | Perhaps we have achieved in our landscape what we deserve . |
| 17 | Perhaps we have to reckon with an element of chance . |
| 18 | Perhaps we have hit on the real reason for scheduling … land ear-marked for government use but no one else 's ? |
| 19 | perhaps we have to look at the societal thing in that there 's something very macho seen as macho about football in Scotland which is stand on the terraces with a short sleeve shirt in zero degrees and having someone urinate down your leg and |
| 20 | I can understand that obviously we 've got to be cautious about that sort of thing . |
| 21 | " We can go on watching the place — obviously we 've got to . |
| 22 | But obviously we 've got to be very careful about looking at actual work carried out , bearing in mind that is |
| 23 | so , so it 's a lot of , sorry about that , er it 's , it 's a substantial sum of money and obviously we want to look at how the one works . |
| 24 | As the car chugged down the M1 motorway I stopped cursing my bad luck and thought of how we could have made the first descent if only we had concentrated on the job in hand and not got the press involved or told so many people all about our daring endeavour . |
| 25 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 26 | So we came to look for you . ’ |
| 27 | So we went to live with my aunt in Tembisa , a township in the East Rand . |
| 28 | And so we tend to wobble between these two extremes in seeing our uniqueness . |
| 29 | So we agreed to look for a new approach " . |
| 30 | So we agreed to compromise with him on certain things , in return for him keeping his nose out of my business . ’ |