Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in terms of actual control , we have forsworn many other areas where hitherto we sought to control by centralized edict . |
| 2 | The TV items are being selected on the criteria of level of interest and validity as examples of authentic spoken English ie. we tend to go for ordinary people speaking to camera rather than voice over or straight presentation to camera . |
| 3 | During counselling we tend to talk about physical symptoms . |
| 4 | We tend to think of joint finance , in the English context , as involving the district health authority , but there is a range of agencies — from the highest level in the NHS down to the family practitioner committees — who must have a part to play in planning community services and of course in supporting community services . |
| 5 | Although we tend to think of industrial effluent , sewage is a more important source of pollution . |
| 6 | We tend to think of light as being in some way ‘ different ’ from the other forms of radiation , but this is misleading . |
| 7 | Now the curious thing was that if you looked at the early atmosphere , the molecules in that were the molecules that we expected to see in interstellar space . |
| 8 | ‘ We want to stop in future anyone swinging the lead , ’ he stressed . |
| 9 | Talabani appealed to Kurds to return to their homes and stressed that " we want to stay in Iraqi Kurdistan , not leave it " . |
| 10 | Your reasons for this colossal exploitation of what is to you hi-tech may be quite divorced from ours ( we want to look for black holes , whereas you want to ascertain the precise time you should sacrifice a virgin in order to propitiate the gods ) , but the principle is much the same . |
| 11 | We want to specialise in high-reliability systems . |
| 12 | SDO Craggs said : ‘ We want to hear from young people in their early 20s . |
| 13 | The point we want to make for immediate purposes has to do with the way in which methodological problems arise from particular conceptions of the " order of things " . |
| 14 | ‘ P-please , sir , we tried to go in straight lines . |
| 15 | We are the ones miserably fiddling with our shell necklaces while we wait to turn from anaemic to lobster . |
| 16 | We stop to chat about national affairs or the state of the Common , hardly ever about what was on the box last night . |
| 17 | So , every penny that we receive goes towards cost-effective direct provision for the single homeless . |
| 18 | So , every penny that we receive goes towards cost-effective direct provision for the single homeless . |
| 19 | Some of the tapes we receive arrive on dodgy cassettes , have various bits and pieces of other music on them , and we have to waste time trying to find the relevant bit of the tape . |
| 20 | Both my husband and myself were members of a number of societies dealing with para-medical subjects such as hypnosis , dowsing and radionics , and through these we came to hear about psionic medicine ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 21 | Cos you know to look at the bottom line of total design fees against what they would have been if we 'd gone in fixed price ? |
| 22 | after we 'd taken in old Mrs Brent |
| 23 | Er we showed him one or two examples of similar sorts of presentations that we 'd had from other railway and outside organizations , er explained what we 'd done in the past , said that we were looking to get something more up-market and more erm professional , which was why we were looking to er er seek er quotes from er g graphics designers , linked in with printers . |
| 24 | It seems to me that many of the people involved in our industry have a fundamental lack of understanding of the needs and preoccupations of the modern child , and there are far too many groups , circles , committees and working parties which we seem to form in endless pursuit of the Holy Grail of better children 's bookselling . |
| 25 | Large as these numbers are , they are not large enough to account for all the particles that we seem to observe in strong and weak interactions . |
| 26 | He says success is judged on the number of people we manage to charge with criminal offences . |
| 27 | Only if this latter requirement is met can we begin to talk of linguistic competence . |
| 28 | ‘ What are we going to say to old Plumpton ? |
| 29 | Were we going to go for impersonal macro-solutions , or were we going to realise that the people were looking for us as their leaders to provide an answer to their difficulties ? |
| 30 | As I write , an emergency cabinet meeting entitled ‘ F— Maastricht — What the hell are we going to do about Fabulous ? ! ’ is considering declaring a nationwide state of emergency to deal with this unprecedented revolutionary threat . |