Example sentences of "we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The superintendent of police in my area has told me that , were we to round up about 150 people in the county of Cleveland , it would eradicate about 80 per cent . |
| 32 | If we are working hard , then we drive ourselves harder ; if we are lonely because of the break-up of a relationship , we isolate ourselves . |
| 33 | To the extent that we isolate and concentrate on phonic rules we seem to encourage only awareness of the surface features of written language . |
| 34 | We do this , notionally , in any matrix multiplication : if we are performing the operation BC = A then we isolate a row of B and a column of C — respectively ( 1 × n ) and ( n × 1 ) submatrices — to produce an element — i.e. a ( 1 × 1 ) submatrix of A. Similarly , we could , for example , isolate the first three rows of B and the first four columns of C and multiply these submatrices , of order ( 3 × n ) and ( n × 4 ) , to give a ( 3 × 4 ) submatrix in the top left corner of A. Again , since unc it makes no different if we divide the range , s , of summation into subranges ; each subrange can be summed , and these sums added to give the total . |
| 35 | Whether we covet , confine or curse it , the mink is only minding its own business . |
| 36 | And then Sylvia came in with apologies and that perennially green hat , and we lowered the lights while she recited De Musset 's ‘ Nuit de Mai ’ . |
| 37 | According to Cyril Ray in his penetrating profile Bollinger ( 1971 ) , one house was spared and he records that fifteen years after the riots Madame Bollinger overheard a passer-by outside one of her windows say , ‘ That 's the Bollinger house , you know : we did n't touch it during the riots here — as a matter of fact , we lowered our flag to it when we passed ! ’ 'Probably the red flag , ’ Madame is supposed to have commented with pleased irony . |
| 38 | By the time we lowered ourselves over the bergschrund and had descended the soggy snow of the glacier , the sun was dipping below the satellites of Mt Blanc . |
| 39 | Before leaving , we lowered one of our motorboats to circle the area . |
| 40 | Then we lowered the sail and sat in the sun , and Pierre spoke of the lot he and his fellow villagers had been born to , the weeks at sea , the gales , the great hauls of fish , the hardships and achievements of a Breton fisherman 's life , while we ate the food he had brought with him , and drank his rough cider . |
| 41 | ‘ Nah then , how are we goin' to get across this bloody river ? ’ the Mayor inquired . |
| 42 | ‘ Are we goin' out the night or not ? ’ |
| 43 | We goin' pick them like they ripe avocados . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ We goin' take these politician' , leetle dog , an' we goin' put them in one beeg hole so they don' come back . |
| 45 | ‘ We goin' take these politician' , leetle dog , an' we goin' put them in one beeg hole so they don' come back . |
| 46 | We goin' have planes landin' like flies goin' land on your body after Miguelito keel you . |
| 47 | ‘ We goin' take a leetle walk now , leetle dog . |
| 48 | ‘ Well , what are we goin' to do ? ’ she said . |
| 49 | ‘ When 're we goin' out then , ’ Billy demanded . |
| 50 | ‘ Where are we goin' first ? ’ he yelled over the wind noise . |
| 51 | Her response was almost a plaintive mutter : ‘ What are we goin' to do ? ’ she asked . |
| 52 | ‘ What 're we goin' to do ? ’ asked Dolly . |
| 53 | If the horse is thumped by the farrier , or we belt it with a cane , the horse is likely to become so upset that the chances are we will never be able to shoe the horse ! |
| 54 | We belt along the freeway , clearing a good fifty miles , when suddenly Lucker slams a hard fist down on the dashboard . |
| 55 | The classical continuity which remains for the plucked string is that each of its harmonics can be sounded as softly or as loudly as we please . |
| 56 | Narrow the aperture of the microscope and then we shall have as accurate a knowledge of the photon 's direction as we please and thus the uncertainty in the momentum transferred to the electron will be controlled . |
| 57 | For us , we go to Court or not , as we please . |
| 58 | ‘ We are summoned to audience with Artai later , ’ he said , ‘ but until then we can do as we please . ’ |
| 59 | First , there is legal sovereignty — the legal right to do as we please . |
| 60 | Our workmen do work hard , but we live at ease ; We go when we will , and come when we please ; We hoard up our bags of silver and gold ; But conscience and charity with us are cold . |