Example sentences of "we [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 According to Cyril Ray in his penetrating profile Bollinger ( 1971 ) , one house was spared and he records that fifteen years after the riots Madame Bollinger overheard a passer-by outside one of her windows say , ‘ That 's the Bollinger house , you know : we did n't touch it during the riots here — as a matter of fact , we lowered our flag to it when we passed ! ’ 'Probably the red flag , ’ Madame is supposed to have commented with pleased irony .
2 Is it usual to kill prisoners , or have we broken your law ?
3 We lose its simplicity , its beauty , its joy , its expression of the inner source .
4 Lose the resurrection hope , though , and we lose our way .
5 We lose our temper , feel cornered and frightened , it can be the work of an instant .
6 If we lose our grip on this , if it gets away from us , we 'll be very unhappy , very embarrassed , and very much in debt to all sorts of people we prefer to control rather than be controlled by .
7 Right , we lose our shield .
8 Even this great cathedral will become a museum and mausoleum the day we lose our confidence in the resurrection .
9 Religion can not be divorced from morality in his view for it is belief in an ordered moral government of the universe and when we lose our basis in morality we cease to be religious .
10 If we change your holiday
11 IF WE CHANGE YOUR HOLIDAY
12 If we change your holiday arrangements
13 That pattern is repeated across Europe ; that is why we must ensure that we reduce and not add to the delays when we change our system and introduce new rights .
14 Therefore , if we change our attitude , we get rid of the craving that produces suffering .
15 Have we heard his word ?
16 ‘ And if we raise its value , then Robert Menzies will raise our rent . ’
17 7 The following reflex pathway is the route along which impulses travel when we prick our hand on a sharp pin .
18 After lunch , either from members ' own nosebags or from the Museum café , we reboarded our coach and set off on a magical mystery tour in search of Butterley and the M.R.C. It is quite fun ‘ turning round ’ on a fairly busy main road in a large coach !
19 Today we launch our campaign , as the Community Care Act causes more elderly people than ever to rely on the six million people who care for relatives at home .
20 We fought our way back into the game at Goodison to get home advantage and the whole club 's been boosted by Don Howe 's recovery this week .
21 After a short respite in the lee of Lundy ( one of Phil 's minor ambitions ) we fought our way in towards Clovelly against the rising sea and wind .
22 A wound in the flesh of our society had cracked open , we looked into it , and we smelled its sepsis .
23 The day we met her diet was soup at dinner time , pineapple and cottage cheese for tea with a packet of crisps and a cup of tea .
24 Twenty minutes later we met our guide , seated in the snow making radio contact with the hut .
25 We met His Worship Mayor Camilien Houde in the anteroom , about a dozen of us , and walked through a passageway under the bleachers to the side of the rink .
26 On the way , all my sisters talked about was the murder and when , on reaching the corner of Fair View Road and Kelsey Road , we met my cousin Violet the gossip was renewed with interest .
27 He carried me in his arms , for near a quarter of a mile ; when we met my father & Sir Stafford 's servants .
28 We perceive his doubt and weariness simultaneously as a natural reaction to circumstances , and as a temptation , even a phantasm or illusion of the Dark Tower .
29 Strict left-to-right strategies , while intuitively similar to the way we perceive our recognition of fluent speech , force computational systems to tackle immediately stretches of sound , which are of poor acoustic quality , or which are relatively unconstrained by higher level knowledge .
30 We communicate our inwardness in great waves , all about us , carrying it with us wherever we go .
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