Example sentences of "we [vb base] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We expect to contribute now a proportion of our income through sponsorships , events and appeals of ever more exotic and imaginative kinds . |
| 2 | So we get involved quite a lot in looking at teaching in various parts of the university where people want us to , very often involving the students as well as the other teachers in looking at a particular course and seeing if there are ways in which perhaps it might be taught differently or in a way that worked better . |
| 3 | And to qualify for that grant , you have got to submit two er your programme for the year and you 've got ta give the secretaries , you 've got to give a report and you 've got to give your balance sheet and er , Jean is always , I must say , very pleased with mine because erm you know , we do give quite a lot to charity . |
| 4 | Erm , we do know quite a lot about erm , why it is that when you diet you start to think about food all the time , and why it is that certain things happen , and I think that there 's more and more information and knowledge being gathered and yes , the na , the desire to change has to come from the individual but perhaps , having clinics available where people can go when they 're ready to change or where they can get help . |
| 5 | For your call , we do have quite a number of callers on the line at the moment , if you could just be patient with us , because the time now is half past twelve . |
| 6 | Erm I do recognise some faces , I know some of you recognise me and eh cos we 've done quite a lot of things together , but this afternoon what I 'm going to tell you about is how I fit in with Council , I do n't think any of you know that or know what the Local Government Unit is . |
| 7 | But at the moment , I can not speak with the same feeling of achievement about caring for er , elderly , the elderly relative , whereas I think I can say with conviction we 've done quite a lot for those with small children . |
| 8 | So how we , so there was no obvious leader and how are we gon na pull ourselves ah ahead , well we have to improve our media coverage and we 've done quite a lot on that , John 's been very successful in getting quite a lot of media coverage both for individuals within the firm and for the the firm as a whole . |
| 9 | And you know this brings another important aspect up which is very important about communications , erm you know we 've jollied along talking about what communication is making sure people know you know what you want etcetera etcetera etcetera but also do n't forget that different people can have different perceptions of the same same things but as I say here we are we sat here we done we 've done about an hour an hour and a half on written communications and yet you know when we passed the papers around it has n't been too bad but there has been different things that people have gone for both in the writing of these reports and both in the marking of them as well . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've seen quite a lot of completely sterile ears in winter barley , which is due to frost on secondary tillers . |
| 11 | We 've seen quite a lot of you lately . ’ |
| 12 | So we 've discovered quite a lot about it all really but erm in the second stanza he says , through the window I see no star . |
| 13 | I think we 've , we 've said quite a bit about erm previously about the symbolism of , of a wedding , if |
| 14 | We 've heard quite a bit of it tonight . |
| 15 | and I , I mean I , I think we 've heard earlier a lot o , people who , people who 've who have become carers because they need that , they need to care for somebody , and they want that dimension in their life . |
| 16 | We 've talked quite a bit about the , I suppose th th th the women 's side of er , of this programme 's title , what about the Scottish side ? |
| 17 | And I would say , in our school we 've had the Aids team in and we 've talked quite a lot about sex education and they 're still sniggering ! |
| 18 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 19 | We 've got just a bit of sun . |
| 20 | We 've got quite a variety here have n't we ? |
| 21 | So we 've got quite a bit off this one |
| 22 | And we 've got quite a bit well either that or we could watch the programme and then wash up , clear up and go to bed . |
| 23 | Yeah I mean we , we 've got quite a bit of a follow on down in er the Lewisham area |
| 24 | ‘ We 've got quite a haul . |
| 25 | We 've got quite a mixture . |
| 26 | We 've got quite a number in Sussex , have n't we ? |
| 27 | And what with Swindon chasing promotion and Gloucester playing in the cup semi-final we 've got quite a week ahead but the biggest crowd will be on the banks of the River Thames for the boat race . |
| 28 | We 've got erm yes we 've got quite a lot of land stock interest we might have accrued er and have n't , erm thirty million pounds in fact , but erm it has n't been accrued because in our view it 's some years off for being paid , but we think er or so I 'm informed by the Chairman of B-Sky-B er that things are going quite well |
| 29 | we 've got quite a lot of these reports together here . |
| 30 | Erm , now we 've got quite a lot out of that opening , so let's look at the rest of the first stanza . |