Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [conj] we [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference can be seen easily if we turn the Apostles ' Creed into a series of questions ( Do you believe in God , the Father Almighty ? etc. ) and then ask what reply is appropriate . |
| 2 | The exiles from Ecuador — more accustomed to jungle and soggy heat — had gasped unashamedly as we rounded the bend above the cliffs , and they remained quite mute , awestruck , as we circled down into town and parked outside the Hotel Eberhardt for a dish of the king crab , centolla , and a mug of beer . |
| 3 | We had n't gone far before we spied the punt entangled in the branches of a willow which had collapsed into the stream . |
| 4 | We galloped along the sand , and I knew what had happened long before we reached the rocks where the King lay . |
| 5 | What we tend to do is to brief ourselves very thoroughly on vulnerable spots in the world , and in countries where we already have links and where we 've worked before and we know the background because we , we feel we need that and we monitor very carefully certain events which could lead to a disaster , so that when the disaster does happen , like for instance the Ugandan famine of nineteen seventy-nine to eighty-one , we knew exactly when it was going to happen and we knew exactly where the people were , we knew who was going to be affected , we knew why they were affected , we knew where the food stocks were , we knew how long it was going to take to get so many thousand tonnes of food from A to B erm and how many trucks you would need . |
| 6 | We have made as we intended to do , if you remember we er advertised widely in accordance with our equal opportunities policy , er for that post but also I think in accordance with equal opportunity we wanted to give people the er chance to develop their range of skills internally for some of the er lower grade posts and therefore er initially the other posts er have been advertised internally and we filled the temporary er assistant administration erm post er internally . |
| 7 | The Labour Party and the trade union movement are bonded together because we share the same objectives . |
| 8 | For example , the brutal effect of Example 141(c) can be changed considerably if we dispose the vertical components of each chord differently : Here , the harshness of the original , with its dissonant 2nds and 7ths , has been converted to much less discordant chord-successions . |