Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally we have found some success in moving into areas where , for example , we bring either a customer base , or a skill or research base which can be applied to another business . |
| 2 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 3 | And we before that we made quite a few runs to Kirkwall with a that was a small one that we had and erm you had to get the bus from Evie of course to Kirkwall and back the same way . |
| 4 | So , we lack both a time and a place for the murder . |
| 5 | We have as many lovely things here as on the Mountain of Butterflies but we lack only a prophet and the eyes and emotions to see them . |
| 6 | We , we sell quite a lot of Amnesty products , a lot , a lot of clothing in every |
| 7 | We became quite a regular there , as a matter of fact , nine consecutive mornings , including two Sundays , past the battlements , through gardens , then down the long loot-crammed passages , with glass cases full of baubles and beauties , and oblongs of oils and tapestries and embroidered maps reeling past our sight — to the waiting room . |
| 8 | For example , somebody would go into a restaurant in Lime Street — we got quite a few of those . |
| 9 | ‘ We got quite a few people giving us their old notes which was quite naughty — especially as the bank refused to change them . ’ |
| 10 | Thank you Mr Chairman , I , I 've got a certain amount of experience in the subject because we got quite a big one in our village . |
| 11 | oh well , we ca n't very well be whether Julie said she liked boys to go out with her , go , and we provisionally booked , I think it was the last week in February , we got quite a bit on , I said er if I ca n't make it I 'll ring you , but then , oh that was it she rung me up , and she said Lynnie |
| 12 | And when when he gets to know us a bit better we got quite a welcome tonight . |
| 13 | We got , we got quite a lot of meat |
| 14 | We got together a jury of 13 good hairdressers and asked them to nominate the hairdresser they most admired . |
| 15 | We got together a group of important dealers and they all came over and testified , and the gallery owner said the artist was lying , but in the end the show was closed and the gallery closed . |
| 16 | Between Silver and myself , we got together a crew of the toughest seamen you can imagine . |
| 17 | We got there a quarter of an hour early , around nine in the morning . |
| 18 | I even made sure we got there an hour early in order to take everything in . |
| 19 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 20 | ‘ Can we wait just a minute ? ’ |
| 21 | We drew quite a few games away . |
| 22 | ‘ We began filming at 7.00am at the Bryman Airways check in. was shouting directions and the cameraman and soundman were fretting over which positions were best — we drew quite a crowd . |
| 23 | We report here a simplified and reliable protocol for fast minipreparation and denaturation of plasmid DNA which takes only half an hour to produce single-stranded template DNA of high quality for sequencing . |
| 24 | In one key experiment , for example , we trained over a hundred birds , measuring their imprinting preference score and motor activity ( that is , how much they ran in the wheels ) as well as RNA synthesis . |
| 25 | We propose here a name for the gene we have partly described , and for the protein products ( GGFs , NDF , ARIA , heregulins ) derived from it . |
| 26 | We want just a week 's paid holiday ! |
| 27 | We found instead a high general standard and — a very strong international body of work which is actually topographical , or environmental , rather than architectural . |
| 28 | And er we , we did erm we , we started making er bench models because we found quite a lot of these had been made in Germany . |
| 29 | Yes , where erm my next neighbour gave me some stuff erm , then I went into her shed cos she had erm , some mice problems so dad went in there to have a look round , seeing the poison were wore off and we found quite a lot of old gardening chu , tools . |
| 30 | We stopped briefly a couple of times , presumably for checkpoints and , as on other occasions , the driver would sometimes get out and speak to the people manning them . |