Example sentences of "we [verb] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is in reply to a request we made of Greek Intelligence for as exhaustive a list as they could supply of all places where Andropulos is known either to do business or have contacts . |
| 2 | Why we eat what we do and how much we eat of any particular food is a fascinating subject . |
| 3 | The other point I have is N Y ten , can you tell me what erm we make of that one ? |
| 4 | The other demands talents beyond — in the case of the most creative far beyond — the average , the ability to have insights or craft exquisite objects which , by common consent , we judge of great scientific value or aesthetic worth . |
| 5 | So what do we make of that once we 've stopped chuckling ? |
| 6 | But what do we make of that gourd business ? |
| 7 | What can we make of that ? ’ |
| 8 | What can we make of this perspective on British politics ? |
| 9 | What can we make of this pattern and can we suggest dates for the elements within it ? |
| 10 | ‘ What do we know of these people ? |
| 11 | It is interesting that although idioms consist of more than one word , they display to some extent the sort of internal cohesion that we expect of single words . |
| 12 | Indeed often , and only sometimes rhetorically , we speak of such works as works of art — a particular knife , pot , aeroplane , bridge — but usually with the sense that this is an additional quality , when the primary purpose of the object has been already acknowledged . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is , perhaps it is not ; our ignorance shows that what we mean when we speak of personal identity is continuity of consciousness , not of substance . |
| 14 | When we speak of strong attachment or attraction between two people we are in the realms of love , the basis on which many people in our culture choose or are drawn towards their marriage partner . |
| 15 | In the Vindiciae the reply is that " when we speak of all the people , we understand by that , only those who hold their authority from the people , to wit , the magistrates … whom the people have substituted , or established … to represent the whole body of the people . |
| 16 | … it is what we imply when we speak of Primitive Culture . |
| 17 | They bring us immediately up against the complex and fundamental issue of how the images we hold of later life and ageing are put together . |
| 18 | The problem with many of the parents we interviewed of primary school children was that they did n't really know what their children were doing at school a lot of the time and , because they did n't know what they were doing , they sort of feared that it , they were n't doing anything or that what they were doing was not actual work , what they remembered as work . |
| 19 | ‘ I think , ’ she said in a tiny voice , ‘ we disposed of that smooth-talking kind of approach on the evening under discussion , after I burned my thumb . ’ |
| 20 | We disposed of surplus property and focused our investment expenditure on quayside facilities where we bought the former Texaco fuel terminal in Aberdeen , which is being substantially upgraded , and spent £1.2 million on building 27,000 square feet of offices and warehousing at the Wood Marine Base in Aberdeen . |
| 21 | In this chapter we consider of casual working in the hotels and catering sector . |
| 22 | In the earlier books of the Old Testament we read of these evil spirits ( I Sam . |
| 23 | ‘ What do we see of real life ’ ? |
| 24 | Well you sort of like say for instance erm we heard of recent burglary . |
| 25 | We heard of daily torture , public hangings , guards who walked about with whips , gas chambers , castrated children and prisoners who lay dead for hours in the communal beds . |
| 26 | When we hear of such cases , we investigate and draw on as many sources as possible to find out what happened … |
| 27 | We hear of other cases where the decision was based on Russian tribute being lighter than that of other overlords . |
| 28 | We hear of mysterious deaths of whales and dolphins on the Scottish coast , and of the virtual disappearance of sea-trout from some of their west coast rivers . |
| 29 | We hear of forced and hard labour , of beatings and groanings , of attempts to have all male children born to the slave women put to death at birth , of the screw being given yet another turn and the people being worked to near-exhaustion . |
| 30 | In his survey of London , published in 1889 , Charles Booth commented on the overlapping territory of the various visitors from churches , the Charity Organisation Society , and other charitable organisations in Deptford : ‘ we hear of one woman busy at the washtub calling out [ to a new visitor ] : ‘ you are the fifth this morning ’ ' . |