Example sentences of "we [prep] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we ca n't cross the Sea of Storms , a tenth of the distance , what chance have we of navigating that far ? ’ |
| 2 | They have lied to us about eveything else . ’ |
| 3 | She does n't hector us about giving up things . |
| 4 | She done us for skating up the fucking |
| 5 | state in the book policy er stable is n't an a stability is rural to the future generations , thank er thank relevant to the suit of each and I really do n't think they would erm thank us for bringing about a demeaning for our premier , international premier this road . |
| 6 | All the creatures that we have to kill and eat , all those that we have to strike down and destroy to make clothes for ourselves , have souls , like we have , souls that do not perish with the body , and which must therefore be propitiated lest they should avenge themselves on us for taking away their bodies ( see Rasmussen , 1929 ) . |
| 7 | We had learned this at the very first lesson of the term — something most of the boys should have remembered from the previous year — when Mr Gillis had belted fourteen of us for setting off towards the door when the bell rang rather than waiting for his instruction . |
| 8 | Some people back there would be cursing us for raising so much dust . |
| 9 | ‘ Now , sit in this chair next to me , ’ he said , and with a sudden change of tone and manner , said , ‘ You must not blame us for keeping up such high standards of public behaviour . |
| 10 | If that money in that it does come into the policy and the guideline here and I erm he accused us of putting out er press releases talk about council tax and this may be popular with . |
| 11 | This , then , is the first stage of reacting to loss : denial — shock that something bad has happened — is our psyche 's way of defending us from experiencing too great a sense of harm too quickly . |
| 12 | Knowing where to look can be a danger if it completely stops us from looking elsewhere as well . |
| 13 | The nineties have yet to prove themselves a kinder and gentler decade , but that should not stop us from looking forward again . |
| 14 | It is the emotional and dynamic tug of a story which must prevent us from reading in too literal a spirit . |
| 15 | Pride holds onto the past and so prevents us from moving forward and achieving more with our lives . |
| 16 | Er the very fact that we 're at our desks er for more than seventy percent of our time filling these forms in er prevents us from moving on to the next prisoner and going out and arresting more people for crime . |
| 17 | Uniformity of policy throughout Europe would have prevented us from building up the strength of the City of London . |
| 18 | Encouraging us to exist on the brink of starvation is one way of stopping us from getting too liberated . |
| 19 | Some of these considerations are sometimes valid , and must be taken into account , but surely they should not excuse us from seeking out such evidence as does exist in relation to the period and style we are performing ? |
| 20 | ‘ The DoT has not given us definite promises and has discouraged us from expecting too much . |
| 21 | it is difficult to measure precisely the influence of factors by isolating them in experiments and , even if we could , there may be ethical problems which prevent us from doing so |
| 22 | However , booksellers are not able to do more because publishers are preventing us from doing so . |
| 23 | We trained hard as well but the snow stopped us from doing too much off-road riding . |
| 24 | This forces upon us a breadth of interest and concern which readily prevents us from becoming too absorbed in the affairs of our own small island . |
| 25 | But our deepest fears should be reserved for everything that keeps us from becoming more human , more personal , or more spiritual . |
| 26 | It is right that in the negotiations , which must remain confidential , they should seek to prevent us from going too far too soon . |
| 27 | Oh what wonderments has she got for us in printing today ? |
| 28 | Robin commented : ‘ The operation of the monthly audit has drawn the regional operations closer and assisted us in meeting even higher customer service standards . |
| 29 | But as we have just seen , Strawson gives us reason to think that it can not be explicable in just this sense , and he is therefore mistaken in concluding that a holist theory would involve us in responding objectively to all actions . |
| 30 | Arthur Acland , the Liberal politician and president of the Association , announced in 1910 that the Board of Education " would welcome help from us in putting forward a scheme for English teaching in Secondary Schools " . |