Example sentences of "[that] we [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is in mercy that we most relate to fallen people like ourselves . |
| 2 | I told her we were Baptists and she said she would tell her husband because he thought Gran was an amazing woman having such a large family , but she had told him that we probably belonged to ‘ one of these odd religions ! ’ . |
| 3 | It does not matter that we already know to some extent what has happened to you . |
| 4 | Politics , for us , is evolutionary rather than axiomatic ; we recognize , in working toward a perfectly just state , that we already belong to a different one . |
| 5 | Perhaps when his desk collapsed through sheer weight of mail he finally will realise that we simply want to be left for 60 minutes an hour in our blinkered little world of leather and willow . |
| 6 | There are some things that we simply have to … let go . ’ |
| 7 | A third dimension that we also need to be aware of is the development of organisational structures over time . |
| 8 | One aspect of performance that one might expect of any machine that was to pass the test ( by behaving in such a way that the human interlocutor never even suspected a machine was present ) would be to have the sort of final authority over what state it was in that we normally concede to humans : when Jones , on the neurosurgeon 's table , insists that he is in pain , we tend to allow his authority even though the neurosurgeon says that , given the position of the brain probe at that moment , he should not be . |
| 9 | Submerged oxygenating plants are those that we affectionately refer to as ‘ weeds ’ , and their function is to maintain healthy , well-oxygenated water for the fish and other livestock . |
| 10 | I do not believe that we ever said to anyone in geriatric care or anyone who entered a home for any other reason , ’ Do n't worry — social security will pick up the bill , however reasonable or however high . ’ |
| 11 | So Grice 's point is not that we always adhere to these maxims on a superficial level but rather that , wherever possible , people will interpret what we say as conforming to the maxims on at least some level . |
| 12 | The constructivist thesis , it is argued , is not relevant because mental representations have not been defined away and replaced by talk of actions : we still have to say how mental life as we know it to be , with the representational character that we naturally give to it , relates to neuronal life . |
| 13 | His starting point was dissatisfaction with most sociological theories of crime ( especially anomie and subcultural theories ) for reasons which are now familiar : their assumption that we naturally conform to conventionally defined goals and the means of achieving them , and that we consequently require some ‘ push ’ ( or ‘ strain ’ , as Hirschi calls it ) to propel us into crime . |
| 14 | It seems probable that , to our ancestors , there was no clear boundary between fields of endeavour that we now consider to be quite separate — for example , astronomy and religion . |
| 15 | Our relationship does seem to be improving but obviously I 'm worried that we now seem to be paying 50% more than we expected . |
| 16 | Did you , you went to the one that we usually go to ? |
| 17 | ‘ Have you ever noticed that we seldom talk to each other at meals normally ? ’ |
| 18 | It is interesting to note that we often refer to the training rather than education of language teachers . |