Example sentences of "we [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We gazed enraptured at the city of Bath from the train as it drew in to the station — it was all laid out on the slopes of Lansdown like an aerial map of a moon landscape . |
| 2 | We lay entwined on a secluded hillside . |
| 3 | We lay coiled like snakes , listening to the wind gathering force to rage into a storm . |
| 4 | The feeling was exhilarating ; the war and the fighting were miles away , and for the next four hours we lay stretched out on the sand drying off , and then into the sea again . |
| 5 | Although it may fill both our physical and mental viewing frames , we remain detached from it and have not entered the cluster . |
| 6 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
| 7 | It becomes possible , if we remain committed to living and working with men , to identify the terms on which we shall participate and what re-negotiation must go on if these relationships are to be transformed . |
| 8 | We remain committed to that . |
| 9 | ‘ We remain committed to supporting the needs of blind people and our aim must be to achieve a fair system right across Cleveland . ’ |
| 10 | Without the will for self-examination and the desire to change ourselves , we can make no progress ; we remain stuck in our types , experiencing only what that type allows and learning nothing new about ourselves or life . |
| 11 | You can see we , we 've done very well on this . |
| 12 | See we 've done it all without decimal point on the calculator , and we never done . |
| 13 | Now then , if the council could , could 've come to some agreement and put in there , it would of made it right for us , now , you see we 've done so before , this is what I do n't like about he , he applies for planning permission does er the notice was no bigger than six inches long and four |
| 14 | Well I think it basically means everybody does does wha we 've asked them to do , which is the work shadowing content of the first week . |
| 15 | Well perhaps to se se se er , you know streamline or rationalise what we 're doing I mean you know , we can we 've asked that we actually hand you in our section on this , right ? |
| 16 | See we 've run out of buns cos you had one yesterday and that makes one er , there was two there |
| 17 | You see we 've gone from paying these people twelve thousand to fourteen thousand to eighteen thousand |
| 18 | You can see we 've made quite a saint out of your little Gabriel . ’ |
| 19 | I rushed downstairs , and burst into the living room : ‘ I hear we 've invaded Sicily ! ’ |
| 20 | On capital spending we tended to concentrate on that spending which would show a return on the investment and if we could we 've postponed er , maintenance spending erm , renewal of cars and that kind of thing . |
| 21 | So you can see we 've had our share of tricky moments . |
| 22 | You see we 've had some very good reports , I mean that went through a very bad patch but they 've this new Doctor Colin he 's meant to be pretty switched on |
| 23 | But you see we 've had U er P V C before . |
| 24 | And I think that would have been the the classic situation where we would We 've got a procedure now for dealing with it and I think this covers all and I unless somebody wants to further debate the matter I 'll er I will propose that we adopt these the financial regulations for the er Tyneside Film Theatre Limited . |
| 25 | You see we 've got here a divergence of opinion immediately have n't we ? |
| 26 | But , we 've still two I still see we 've got two documents though . |
| 27 | We make ourselves known in the village w erm you see we 've got the peace movement at the moment and last year er we always have put a wreath . |
| 28 | But then you see we 've got a section which is Birmingham and then we 've got a Head Office . |
| 29 | So you see we , we 've got a three-tier movement you know , throughout the , throughout the country . |
| 30 | ‘ I see we 've got a visitor . |