Example sentences of "we [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fact is , ’ wrote Clark himself on 15 August , ‘ that if we lose out in the Middle East , we shall be immediately destroyed . ’ |
| 2 | Oh we change over like this . |
| 3 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 4 | The wind died and we lay out in midstream drifting with the current . |
| 5 | I was beginning to become impatient as we lay about on the sand for several hours waiting our turn to go aboard one of the tank-landing craft , after it had discharged its cargo . |
| 6 | By taking a particular line of thought , we bring out of our memory banks the shadows of past events that form an analogy with our present fear . |
| 7 | It was much deeper and bigger than most of what we pick up on screens , our primary source of entertainment today . |
| 8 | You know , young , homeless people we pick up on this bus and er , we have , we we 've sort of ended up pursuing their cases with the housing department and getting temporary accommodation . |
| 9 | What are the cargoes we pick up at short notice and deliver to out-of-the-way ports in Africa ? |
| 10 | We eat up to ten times the amount of salt we actually need ; on average about two teaspoonfuls a day , half of which is added by manufacturers during food processing . |
| 11 | we had the old beach beds and we eat out over there |
| 12 | We make up for this , however , by an almost psychopathic competitiveness . |
| 13 | One of the few areas that we sell out on most match days , and there 's facilities for men and women and we actively develop these areas . |
| 14 | He wants to go back to the base camp before we push on towards Finland . |
| 15 | If we push down on the canvas by putting a heavy object on it we create a dent . |
| 16 | What we concentrate on in Britain , is earth observation . |
| 17 | We are taken through the political and social development of a country which the US regards as its gateway to South America — and we wind up in a situation little different from the past in which an elite group monopolized economic and political power . |
| 18 | And the worst thing you can do is give your skin a short period of intensive exposure to sun — exactly what we go in for when we jet off on our summer holidays . |
| 19 | That 's a fact we back up with our famous 60 day , low price guarantee . |
| 20 | Now , if we round off to three decimal places , we find that F can be written as the unit rank matrix , proportional to unc unc If we now revert to A and postmultiply by unc unc Thus , 1 = 25 . |
| 21 | So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’ |
| 22 | We sit around for a bit , chatting . |
| 23 | We sit round on bins , rugs and the floor for a chat . |
| 24 | They compose themselves as the laibon appears and suggests we sit down for tea . |
| 25 | Yet there will also be times when we sit down with someone we trust to open our lives and share our pilgrimage : |
| 26 | It is the SGP that we shall arrive at if we sit down with our chemistry textbooks , or strike sparks through plausible mixtures of atmospheric gases in our laboratory , and calculate the odds of replicating molecules springing spontaneously into existence in a typical planetary atmosphere . |
| 27 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |
| 28 | Over supper we sit down in the low evening sun and watch the hills change from one blue to another , to mauve , to grey , to black . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't suppose we sit out in the sun above twice a year . |
| 30 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |