Example sentences of "what we [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 We are what we eat has become such a cliché that we rarely stop to think about it nowadays .
2 What we 're talking about , w what we intend to talk about in July is not just whether or not our policies are the right ones but the practicality of implementation , which is actually the hardest bit of all to grasp , and what sort of things we might do , whether it 's about spending more money , whether it 's about influencing people , whether it 's about physically restraining people on where they should go .
3 How about a statement of what we intend to do this week ,
4 The hon. Gentleman asks what we intend to do .
5 That is what we intend to do when we remove the Government from office at the earliest opportunity .
6 What we intend to do in this chapter is discuss the inferential structure that forms the backbone of many of the methods of data collection currently in use .
7 That is what we intend to do and we intend to do it on the basis of the criteria erm that we have set out .
8 The fifty thousand well I if they do they have n't been able to what what we intend to do .
9 here 's what we intend to do in order
10 And that 's what we got doing it that way .
11 There were what we got delivered yesterday was all we had , apart from a few bottles
12 information about a particular piece , so , Simon and I sort of , we were talking kind of fairly casually about that , but erm , what we agreed to do is , this was about the time when we first got the equipment I think and it , it occurred to me that you , and I 've checked this now , that you can actually plug a cassette , you know , a Walkman type of player into either the microphone for the
13 What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country .
14 And he kept roaring with laughter all the way through the set — well , what we managed to do of it .
15 As one explained , ‘ Well , what we try to do is basically to stop young people from getting into trouble , or prevent them , in other words we keep them out of court .
16 Well , that 's what we try to do , but you know you will get the perpetual troublemakers ’ ( FN 8/7/87 , p. 9 ) .
17 That 's what image means and it 's what we try to do in political campaigns .
18 whether we succeed or fail in what we try to do nearly always depends to some extent on factors beyond our control .
19 We can not separate politics from community action , no matter what we try to do about it , no matter how idealistic we may be .
20 What we try to do is help them to stop being victims . ’
21 What we try to do is to make available to people opportunities for study in depth and over a fairly long period of time , on issues and in subjects which are part of University activity .
22 Yes , I think for a lot of people that 's true and I do n't denigrate that because I think a lot of good work goes on in the Women 's Institute , but what we are particularly interested in is in the professional craftsman , the craftsman who has trained for a number of year to produce extremely good work , and what we try to do is to make that work more available to the public in a number of ways .
23 What we try do and is actually sort of focus in on the branches so that so , to try and get try and get all the strains together .
24 And then on that site as well , there 's a print group and a woodwork group , so there 's quite a range , a diversity of opportunities for people , that 's what we try to provide . .
25 I was suddenly infuriated at the thought of what we had believed about the Germans in England .
26 Why are there grave areas , areas of uncertainty and responsibility erm Rivers Authority er Area Manager I believe , Mr er presented the position from their point of view er in particular circumstances on the night of thirtieth December er the er Southern Water whose responsibility is primarily sewage erm er describes circumstances that they have been contending with and a great deal of criticism erm was what we had to anticipate if you like or do anything er to contend with the unusual circumstances of that night erm the consequence was that a large number of new houses in the very close to the that runs through Barnham and under the railway there erm and er not ordinary surplus water flooding , but sewage flooding and the consequences then for many years er it 's obviously going to give , quite apart from having to live with it , er it will on the properties themselves and adversely affect er the ability of individuals to sell them off .
27 I thought of Troy , what we had built her for .
28 That we consolidate what we had built up ; but Buckmaster had the bit between his teeth .
29 Well it was what we had to carry you see .
30 Erm I 'm surprised that slightly surprised that with council and Hugh were willing to go down given what we had given our information about how dangerous or not the site actually is .
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