Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Are we goin' out the night or not ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ When 're we goin' out then , ’ Billy demanded . |
| 4 | We belt along the freeway , clearing a good fifty miles , when suddenly Lucker slams a hard fist down on the dashboard . |
| 5 | ‘ The fact is , ’ wrote Clark himself on 15 August , ‘ that if we lose out in the Middle East , we shall be immediately destroyed . ’ |
| 6 | We lose out . |
| 7 | if we lose out the argument that we should put in for some increase next year , and and we think it 's going to be very difficult to sustain an argument , |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , there 's the villages we rode through , ’ said Fenella , frowning . |
| 9 | As we rode on and emerged into open country a mist was hanging some feet above the ground , as if suspended by a conjuror . |
| 10 | We rode on to the moors and found Linton lying in the same place as before . |
| 11 | Then another man picked me up , swung me in front of him and we rode off . |
| 12 | We rode off to the field which was bursting with beautiful yellow melons , my favourite sort . |
| 13 | We rode along like three troubadours from some romantic tale . |
| 14 | Together we rode back to Thornfield . |
| 15 | Nothing more was said as we rode down in the elevator . |
| 16 | Oh we change over like this . |
| 17 | In the dark hours before dawn we crept up on our objectives and laid charges . |
| 18 | We crept down into the hall , through the kitchen and out by a small postern door . |
| 19 | We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin . |
| 20 | We pricked up our ears . |
| 21 | All I require is the payment we agreed on . ’ |
| 22 | We fought over scraps of flesh and gristle as if the economy was a rotting carcass . |
| 23 | But , we fought back , showing true fighting spirit , and looked as though we were set to win by a couple of points before the Americans rallied , salvaged some pride and squared the match . |
| 24 | And in the second half when we always make the bulk of our profits , we fought back and our second pre-tax er , er performance , exceeded by some five million er , that of nineteen ninety . |
| 25 | ‘ When you look at our results , the deflected goals we have had against CSKA and Brugge , and the way we fought back after being two goals down to Marseille , nothing holds any fears for us . ’ |
| 26 | Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time . |
| 27 | From the roof bar of the Pasha Inn , we gazed down on the harbour . |
| 28 | On the earlier occasion , the old man had also ‘ stopp 'd short ’ while on a holiday fishing expedition ; at that time his daughter Emma was already dead , but we flash back even further for a moment to recall her voice . |
| 29 | We tear off his false moustache and sun-glasses . |
| 30 | Ca n't we eat around here ? ’ |