Example sentences of "we [vb past] to get [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we failed to get the balance right , teachers would lack the necessary motivation to implement our programmes of study . |
| 2 | We failed to get the day 1 samples from eight patients and the day 8 samples from one patient . |
| 3 | Mr Jimmy Airlie , secretary of the Ford union side , said : ‘ We expected to get a favourable majority . |
| 4 | We expected to get a variety of other interesting specimens in the highlands of Arussi , where Ivor Buxton had discovered the mountain nyala in 1910 ; this large buck , resembling a greater kudu , was known only from the highlands of Arussi and Bale . |
| 5 | And I said to our Joe we got to get a another lock for that door . |
| 6 | Then we tried to get a pair of shoes , also a standard model . |
| 7 | The coefficient of correlation value is good , considering that we tried to get a mathematical relationship from a physiological response . |
| 8 | We tried to get a balance between a Test side and a one day side from the squad . |
| 9 | We tried to get a rubber that rubs , rubs ink out but you ca n't get one very well can you ? |
| 10 | But one night we tried to get the whole entire floor out on the landing . |
| 11 | He was the son of Edward the Third , one of our more warlike kings , but he died the year before his father did , and that 's how we came to get the boy-king Richard the Second in thirteen seventy-seven . ’ |
| 12 | A heart-warming incident took place at a little up-country town where we rested to get a midday meal . |
| 13 | Oh we forgot to get a chair out today . |
| 14 | ‘ We made it difficult for ourselves , but we needed to get the early breakthrough , ’ he added . |
| 15 | ‘ We needed to get the BP and Unipart brands on to the petrol stations so they would be highly visible . |
| 16 | And then we got to the stage where we needed to get the wardrobes out . |
| 17 | When I was seven months pregnant we decided to get a flat of our own . |
| 18 | we decided to get a new one , and use the new numbers . |
| 19 | We love him he 's thirteen years old so we we decided to get a a puppy because we thought we 'd we would n't want to get one when he departs this world because you can never replace them . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a good job we managed to get a shepherd . |
| 21 | After a struggle with the wind we managed to get the meadow looking neat and tidy , tables were loaded on to a dumper and the villagers made for home with their booty . |
| 22 | In three hours we managed to get the contractors to build an earth ramp , roll it flat , cover it with gravel and put a handrail alongside so that people could walk down from the road to a flat area beside the ceremony site . |
| 23 | It must have been an hour and a half at least before we managed to get the thing out of the water . |
| 24 | We managed to get the kitchen , sitting-room , dining-room and our bedroom in order before his return . |
| 25 | We managed to get the cocoa changed to tea , and abandoned the hard-labour cells . |
| 26 | ‘ We managed to get the battery thing behind the hedge , ’ he said , ‘ and the can 's nearly full . |
| 27 | She said : ‘ It was shattering but well worth while , we managed to get the message across and people were very generous . |
| 28 | It started nineteen seventy one or seventy two , it must have been , when my predecessor and I were sat down , and we said what about a band , they all said , what band , well let's have a band , and and it started just like that , and we , we managed to get the whole of the brigade alerted to it , and we had a meeting at headquarters , to which about forty or fifty people turned up , of which two had probably blown a an instrument in the past , and there was enough enthusiasm to learn and we had a , a chap who was a musical teacher in town who was would happily teach our people you see and so we went out , we had a penny , with no help from the authority or anybody else and we got every type of brass instrument for a band on tick and we said we 'd pay for it , and er |
| 29 | Brownie helper Barbara once more came to the rescue and during the next week brought her daughter 's cassette tape-recorder to my home where , in spite of my nerves and her dim knowledge of recording , we managed to get the music for a small sequence on tape . |
| 30 | So we managed to get the lorry out and I got on the ‘ phone to Bristol University . |