Example sentences of "we [adv] [verb] a " 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 | With our sister company , Wood Group Engineering Contractors , we successfully secured a long term contract from BP to provide integrated engineering services for the Miller , Magnus and Thistle platforms . |
| 7 | ‘ We successfully politicized a generation of women — those now in their thirties . ’ |
| 8 | The more times we successfully complete a manoeuvre , the more opportunity we are giving the mind to reproduce the same movements . |
| 9 | They are really frustrating to play against and we badly need a good start . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Gradually , as the stress level in our glass continues to rise , we eventually reach a critical point , some distance from the top of the glass , at which the body begins the signalling process that the stress level is too high . |
| 12 | We eventually picked a hotel which looked out over the main square and settled down in the bar . |
| 13 | Since we needed someone to skin and look after the specimens we collected , we eventually employed a lanky youth called Yusuf German who had worked for a Greek taxidermist in the town . |
| 14 | But unless we eventually found a body , there would also be the possibility of simple flight . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We entirely repudiated a personal liability on us to obey general rules . |
| 17 | Each year we naturally lose a few active teachers through ill-health , retirement or when having babies ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If we look at our relationships with others , we merely see a reflection of our love ( or lack of love ) for ourselves . |
| 20 | 2 clubs that were not only fighting for European places , but are good enough to win the league , but we obviously need a few slip ups at Old trafford . |
| 21 | But for our last point we had to rely on being half-right about two issues : we rightly predicted a Common Market between the US and Canada — but wrongly thought it would also include Mexico and Venezuela ; and we predicted that unemployment would rise sharply in the West , causing more flexible working patterns — but were over-optimistic about the implications , seeing masses of people returning to school in middle life and then starting a new career . |
| 22 | ‘ If we move to London , become bigger , when we come back we would want to play this place but there 's the danger that the manager is not going to pay us more than a hundred quid because we only draw a certain crowd … |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ We went three goals up away from home , ended up scoring five and we only got a share of the points . |
| 25 | We only get a certain amount a week off our dad [ parents separated ] and that 's about it — and what I take home . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I mean , we only heard a bit . ’ |
| 27 | In 1981 the government declared a 10% increase in those factories where it was economically viable , but we only received a 5% rise and our factory was very well off in economic terms . |
| 28 | By chastising a horse , we only make a tense situation worse . |
| 29 | However , we only charge a maximum of one month 's interest when a loan is repaid early . |
| 30 | however , we only charge a maximum of one month 's interest when a loan is repaid early . |