Example sentences of "we [adv] [verb] [art] [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 | And as I continued to think about how we rarely get the measure of little children , I suddenly realized why they 'd been making so much din . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We rarely challenge a conclusion we have derived from experience . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Consider Billy Brace 's letter ( Letters ) which says of Gaelic : ‘ We rarely lament the loss of those languages now ’ . |
| 8 | And of course , we duly kept the appointment . |
| 9 | ‘ We successfully politicized a generation of women — those now in their thirties . ’ |
| 10 | The more times we successfully complete a manoeuvre , the more opportunity we are giving the mind to reproduce the same movements . |
| 11 | We badly need the help of the public . |
| 12 | It was hard , but we badly needed the money the holiday lettings were bringing us . |
| 13 | Arsenal paid a bargain £40,000 for Peter in March 1981 after our 1st Division return had gone sour and we badly needed the cash , but he came back to Selhurst Park on loan in October 1983 and his tenacious and skilful experience was a key reason for our 2nd Division survival in that difficult season . |
| 14 | ( By which , of course , I do n't mean that we dis believe that we have them : merely that we mostly have no belief either way about what beliefs we have . ) |
| 15 | We effectively own the property ! |
| 16 | James Cropper who was at the centre of the efforts to establish a national antislavery body to work directly for emancipation declared roundly , ‘ We have no wild schemes of emancipation … we rather wish the thing may work its own way by the force of faith and the operation of circumstances . ’ |
| 17 | When we speak of our economic growth on the basis of market relations ( this is the ‘ meaning ’ of NEP from a certain angle ) , we thereby disprove the thesis of the opposition of socialist accumulation ( even ) to the law of value . |
| 18 | But the wavelength multiplied by the frequency is always equal to the velocity of light , so this decrease in wavelength has the result at the same time of increasing the frequency v. Inevitably we thereby increase the energy carried by a single photon and make its interaction with the electron correspondingly more rumbustious ( with the effect of increasing the degree of uncontrollable disturbance to its momentum ) . |
| 19 | Dr Goode said he trusted himself , and clearly he is a good doctor ; but can we always afford to trust , or do we thereby run the risk of taking a step down the road towards euthanasia , both voluntary and involuntary . |
| 20 | We wholeheartedly condemn the Government 's policy of Non-intervention which has permitted the Fascist countries of Italy and Germany to pour into Spain vast amounts of arms , ammunition , men , whilst it has denied the Spanish Democratic Government the legal right to purchase necessary supplies to defend the State . |
| 21 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We eventually left the outback by way of some tiny townships , widely spaced , and came down onto the Queensland coast at the busy city of Townsville with a modern cylindrical building surmounted by a silvery roof feature . |
| 24 | We eventually picked a hotel which looked out over the main square and settled down in the bar . |
| 25 | But unless we eventually found a body , there would also be the possibility of simple flight . |
| 26 | Sally , after much thought , bought a small rosewood clock for her flat and we eventually found the car and headed for home . |
| 27 | We eventually found the car by good luck more than good management ; I wished we 'd had time to start from the top end and find how we 'd gone wrong . |
| 28 | also we have had promises of items on loan when we eventually open the Museum . |
| 29 | Wandering with pleasure along the Corso , the knobbly spine of the town , we eventually open the guide book , to find we have failed to focus on seven modest palaces . |
| 30 | 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 . |