Example sentences of "we [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rarely took a vote sitting around the board table . |
| 2 | London we passed through , on our way to and from school , but except during the half-term " long leave " from Eton we rarely spent a night there . |
| 3 | Now , apart from the noise and pollution , a petrol-driven outboard is usually unnecessary for punt fishing , for we rarely use a punt to reach very distant areas . |
| 4 | We rarely challenge a conclusion we have derived from experience . |
| 5 | The problem here though and the show is quietly and very deliberately subtitled ‘ Lesbians take photographs ’ is that we rarely see a pairing of two sleek , longhaired and long-legged blondes . |
| 6 | ‘ We successfully politicized a generation of women — those now in their thirties . ’ |
| 7 | The more times we successfully complete a manoeuvre , the more opportunity we are giving the mind to reproduce the same movements . |
| 8 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 9 | We eventually picked a hotel which looked out over the main square and settled down in the bar . |
| 10 | But unless we eventually found a body , there would also be the possibility of simple flight . |
| 11 | I retaliated with detailed instructions on how to bowl off-breaks to left-handers on a drying pitch , and we eventually declared a truce as we watched the sun sink across the oil-storage tanks beyond the creek . |
| 12 | We can not expect pupils to learn the sophistication necessary for handling difficult concepts if we constantly draw a veil over them and shut pupils off from the real debate . |
| 13 | If we look at our relationships with others , we merely see a reflection of our love ( or lack of love ) for ourselves . |
| 14 | Which was which was that we did n't take the whole of the vacant dwellings , we only took a part , even though we are not aware of any planning policy that will restrict occupation of dwellings as second homes . |
| 15 | ‘ We went three goals up away from home , ended up scoring five and we only got a share of the points . |
| 16 | ‘ I mean , we only heard a bit . ’ |
| 17 | However , we only charge a maximum of one month 's interest when a loan is repaid early . |
| 18 | however , we only charge a maximum of one month 's interest when a loan is repaid early . |
| 19 | ‘ We only had a bottle . ’ |
| 20 | Once you 've created the jobs for people it has given the economies an upturn and I feel it 's rather a shame that the erm the great problems of the of the Germans particularly have put that pressure for high interest rates through the er E R M , through those currencies and one , I think , good thing of Britain 's disaster last year , with with their position in the E R M , is that by lowering interest rates , if we only had a government who wanted to use that opportunity probably , we could train people for for work . |
| 21 | If we only had a part for Dustin Hoffman , that would be terrific . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We only had a matchbox size kitchen from which we had to fees the likes of Spike Milligan , Harold Wilson and Ken Dodd . |
| 23 | And , and we only had a rain on one day I think it was . |
| 24 | We only become a Christian by the radical work of grace in our heart , the bible calls it salvation , conversion , being born again . |
| 25 | It was mainly equipment setting up , and then when we did rehearse we only did a couple of songs a day . ’ |
| 26 | However , our lives worked out , we are both happily remarried and , since we only live a mile apart , it 's very easy for the children to come and go to visit their father . ’ |
| 27 | And of course we only spend a minority of our time actually teaching . |
| 28 | We could have gone back to the where we started and then we only paid a couple of hundred pounds a year for the land that they used to keep the grass cut and everything but the problem was really the area . |
| 29 | If we only opened a door partly er there is room for somebody to hide behind it and then when we go into the room then we would encounter problems . |
| 30 | ‘ We only have a rabbit , ’ he found himself saying , ‘ but we kill that usually . |