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 | And from this we naturally derive an account of what the meaning of a particular statement S is : |
| 18 | Each year we naturally lose a few active teachers through ill-health , retirement or when having babies ! |
| 19 | free to come and go and er there is a contribution that 's held at the back , but here in , in the talk it 's highlighting their various ways , this is one of them that we can keep spiritually awake is by being aware of the need for financial contributions , Jehovah has done much for us through his organization and we can show love for him by full support with our time and finances and then another one look stay awake by showing love to you and act loyal sometimes it 's easier to show love to some in the congregation than others , we naturally have an affinity for one another and certain types of personalities seemed to gel with others do n't they ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If we look at our relationships with others , we merely see a reflection of our love ( or lack of love ) for ourselves . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 … |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ We went three goals up away from home , ended up scoring five and we only got a share of the points . |
| 27 | We only get a certain amount a week off our dad [ parents separated ] and that 's about it — and what I take home . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I mean , we only heard a bit . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | By chastising a horse , we only make a tense situation worse . |