Example sentences of "we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the fourth and last day we land in paradise : 45 Sandford Road , Dublin , the home of Helen Dillon , a gardener whose plants are encouraged and castigated like a wayward infants ' class . |
| 2 | ‘ The sweets will help your ears when we land , ’ she insisted . |
| 3 | We land on this loyal world for salvation … |
| 4 | Sure enough , within less than a minute we spot the sun glinting off the visiting aircraft already there and , after an overhead join to read the signals square , we land on Crowfield 's runway with the self-satisfaction of a flight well-conducted . |
| 5 | because we have an awful problem with impact when we land again . |
| 6 | We land just after one o'clock and get straight into a Jag jam-sandwich ( so a ford at both ends — ha ! ) . |
| 7 | ‘ You might be able to help me when we land in Lisbon . |
| 8 | ‘ Wherever we land , people accept us . |
| 9 | Fractures the dream-time , and we land |
| 10 | They know when the ship is due in and arrange to have a vehicle waiting for me when we land . ’ |
| 11 | Why do we persist in trying to know everything there is to know in the belief that one day , presumably quite soon , we will succeed ? |
| 12 | In the Fifties we expanded it . |
| 13 | The more we expanded , the worse our cashflow got till , in the end , our very success threatened us with bankruptcy . |
| 14 | ‘ We were playing a percentage game and as the points came so we expanded . |
| 15 | The latter sentence would be tautologous if we expanded ‘ appear white ’ in it as for the comparative use . |
| 16 | From nineteen eighty one to eighty seven , we expanded into this . |
| 17 | We then moved on and expanded we expanded we brought with with a minimum of two words to do with each of those twelve words that we generated and we did this in a much faster way a much more creative way a right brain activity . |
| 18 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 19 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 20 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 21 | Last month we endured the loss of our beautiful , two-year-old Airedale , Ben . |
| 22 | The nastiest little attack we endured at this time came from , of all papers , the Lancet . |
| 23 | We endured in our separate miseries the wilderness of unspoken recrimination , accusation and regret . |
| 24 | He fell over , and we endured a minute or two of bumbling comic relief . |
| 25 | Finally , we sketch likely future developments in residential child care . |
| 26 | Finally , we sketch the evolution of Marxism after Marx . |
| 27 | We sketch briefly the legal definition of casual working and go on to consider the special features of certain business operations within the hotels and catering industry which explain why casual workers are to be found there . |
| 28 | A year ago , we channelled all of our efforts on finishing the wings-eleven ply and spruce ribs on high-strength aluminium allow spars ( each wing ) . |
| 29 | Last year S C F programmes received almost eighteen million pounds of the hundred and forty seven million which we channelled through N G Os . |
| 30 | Mrs Humphreys said : ‘ Had we received the £68,000 the company would still be in business . ’ |