Example sentences of "[noun sg] we [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's done as part of a rolling programme we decided to spend at each of the stations on the electrification route and Darlington got a significant amount . |
| 2 | Then there was always the harvest home dance , and then the school , that was the only place we had to dance in that day and they had it decorated with various kinds of the the the c corn dollies and erm |
| 3 | This is the sort of cheap bitter jibe we love to say to each other when we feel wronged by life and attribute it to the lukewarm stew of Englishness . |
| 4 | In the second part we begin to look at some of the arguments which have been developed about the possible effects of new technology on the kinds of jobs available in the future . |
| 5 | We have to ask ourselves , as consumers , exactly what part we have to play in all this . |
| 6 | The other responsibility we need to mention at this stage is planning . |
| 7 | At present we have to rely on several sources of information , which sometimes overlap , and which definitely leave great gaps . |
| 8 | Erm sorry about this , but er it 's a sort of a chore we have to do at this stage . |
| 9 | For the rest we had to depend on such persuasion as I could muster in my speech opposing the adoption of the agenda at the first meeting . |
| 10 | So it does seem to work this method , and it wor this is the method we have to use for all the numbers including the As and Bs and Xs and Ys where we do n't know what the number is . |
| 11 | Arthur Scargill put it that ‘ Whilst we exist in a capitalist society we have to extract from that society the highest possible reward for the labour power that we sell , whilst at the same time trying to change the society . ’ |
| 12 | On capital spending we tended to concentrate on that spending which would show a return on the investment and if we could we 've postponed er , maintenance spending erm , renewal of cars and that kind of thing . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , ’ says Howard , ‘ I think the thing we want to avoid at all costs — I mean , I really feel quite strongly about this — is setting up some kind of Utopia — some kind of over-simplified Arcadia which would n't stretch the imagination of the … ’ |
| 14 | If you are , what I want you to do is to , to create a , a team plan and the first thing we need to decide in that team plan is where do we wan na get ? |
| 15 | ( This was a situation we had to avoid at all costs . |
| 16 | If this year we have to stabilize in this way , do these things , then that 's not a bad achievement compared with what we set out with three months ago . |
| 17 | This makes one 's listening uncannily like attending a live performance instead of that sometimes feeble approximation we have to tolerate from many reproducing systems . |
| 18 | Yeah I did that at school we had to stay in most break times as a child cos I could n't remember , and I , I know that my mum bought me a books so I used to sit for days and days , then my mum going over and then my nan going over and I could n't remember if I wanted |
| 19 | As to why a peripheral , albeit a very smart one , should prove to be the saviour of a company we need to look at some history . |
| 20 | In that time we managed to talk to many broadcasters , primarily European ( which reflects where we see our main market potential and the fact that MIPCOM did seem to have greater numbers of European broadcasters than from any other significant territory ) . |
| 21 | At first it all seemed so simple : the discussions , the unfolding of new ideas , the boundless energy we seemed to generate in each other , the solidarity we felt in working towards tearing down patriarchal structures and attitudes . |
| 22 | After luncheon we went to look at some watercolours in which she is interested at Agnew 's , in Bond Street . |