Example sentences of "we [vb base] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In ordinary politics , however , we must treat integrity as an independent ideal if we accept it at all , because it can conflict with these other ideals .
2 We fail so utterly to reward responsible married women that if we give anything at all to single mothers we appear to be placing a premium — ‘
3 We glimpse him at this time as the ‘ very accurate , industrious young man ’ commended by ‘ Governor ’ Thomas Pownall [ q.v . ] .
4 In response to his prompting remark that ‘ the Jewish problem still has n't been cleared up ’ and ‘ we hear nothing at all about what sort of solution is imagined ’ , only three Party members ( 5 per cent ) expressed open approval of the right to exterminate the Jews , with comments such as : ‘ The Führer has decided upon the extermination of Jewry and promised it .
5 And it we drive it at sixty miles an hour , for two hours .
6 But we believe we know what at this moment the country wants , and we believe it is for us in our strength to do what no other party can do at this moment and to say that we at any rate stand for peace …
7 ‘ You have no idea , ’ said Healey , ‘ what it was like before you came into the committee , The prime minister was always demanding active intervention early on , with this crazy desire to go there and take things over , that we should side with the Roman Catholics and the Civil Rights movement against the government and the Royal Ulster Constabulary , though we know nothing at all about it . ’
8 We know nothing at all about the author of The Cloud of Unknowing .
9 We may do it badly , but the beauty is that we do it at all .
10 Blue here corresponds to 1.6 mm , and shows the cloud tops much as we see them at optical wavelengths .
11 We do n't see as much of you as we 'd like to ( if we see you at all ) .
12 None of us mind him at all and he used to be a special friend of Minch 's . ’
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