Example sentences of "we [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with everything else we rarely design for trouble or failure because that would threaten our confidence regarding success . |
| 2 | We rarely reflect on such mysteries . |
| 3 | Having grown up surrounded ( almost bombarded ) by spoken language , we rarely think about it . |
| 4 | Mr Eliot has lived abroad so long that we rarely think of him as an American and he is never written about from the point of view of his relation to other American authors . |
| 5 | As GRAMOPHONE readers know , CD prices are substantially lower in America than in the UK , and while we rarely complain about this it does raise the number of units which must be sold to reach the break-even point on a particular recording : this in turn discourages risk-taking on limited appeal issues . |
| 6 | They are people whom we rarely consider in this House , but when there is a suicide or accident on the railway , the driver , and his mate if appropriate , may be mentally scarred for life by the experience . |
| 7 | Our adversary lets us out from time to time , to visit other houses , but we rarely enter with power and authority into the heart of the city . |
| 8 | It follows that ‘ those sensations must be all that we can , at bottom , mean by their attributes ; and the distinction which we verbally make between the properties of things and the sensations we receive from them , must originate in the convenience of discourse rather than in the nature of what is signified by the terms ’ . |
| 9 | We duly wrote to the CAA , asking them to confirm or deny this practice . |
| 10 | The suggested the distinctive Volvo 460 , which we duly put to the test . |
| 11 | They give us and Perry Farrell ( who 's God in these parts ) ‘ HIPS LIPS TITS POWER ’ T-shirts which we duly wear on stage . |
| 12 | What restrictions did we additionally place on the articles ? |
| 13 | We mostly want to be left to get on with Afterwards . |
| 14 | And er we , we did n't do an awful lot on commercial later on , we gave up that er thing we , we mostly concentrated on the private cars . |
| 15 | According to classical criminology we mostly behave in a rational manner . |
| 16 | We rather hope to be asked to dance by a couple of twenty-year-olds , do n't we , old thing ? ’ |
| 17 | She had a strange name we rather connected with ‘ Salt Peter , ’ she was called Petula Clarke . |
| 18 | We rather go to Chimney 's tomorrow than to London Zoo . |
| 19 | Dysfunction is a term currently enjoying great vogue , perhaps because it so aptly describes so much of what we laughingly refer to as modern living . |
| 20 | It must have been nearly 5 o'clock when , having finally got the cars across that ferry , we eventually drove into Martigues in dazzling late afternoon sunshine to see the fishing boats come in . |
| 21 | We take a frozen river for a long way , a bumpy ride that keeps you concentrating , and when we eventually come off it , there is a lone tree that the dogs pull towards despite our efforts . |
| 22 | When we eventually get to it the Visitor Centre there explains with diagrams and scientific data why this is the driest place in Australia . |
| 23 | The tow rope snapped twice on the way and was getting shorter and shorter before we eventually got to Darlington . |
| 24 | We eventually got in there about coming up to half past two |
| 25 | We eventually went to the Austrian Police in an effort to get some assistance and , as good fortune would have it , we met it young Austrian called Thomas who worked at one of the Shipping Offices on the border . |
| 26 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 27 | We eventually pull into the garage forecourt . |
| 28 | But , thanks to the kindness of a lady in the petrol depot who agreed to phone our host when a delivery was about to be made and where , we eventually refuelled at about 9.00 am on Thursday we set out on the last leg of our journey . |
| 29 | The call was reflected in the name we eventually chose for the church : Cranham Community Church . |
| 30 | By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium . |