Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd decided to have a ploughman 's lunch or some such at a likely-looking pub we 'd seen in the next village . |
| 2 | We chose to investigate in the first place the speech of those who are not very likely to be directly affected by mainstream norms , and whose speech is of the type that had been least explored by descriptive linguists — the urban working class . |
| 3 | If you feel comfortable going in second one of these and these alone , that 's fine by him do what we did come in the first place , you can go in , take your briefcase pop it down there , this says to them , this is where I 'm gon na work from , is that okay with you ? |
| 4 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 5 | It 's just the same as what we 've done in the first one , and we 're |
| 6 | er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've learned in the last go it 's the public accountability thing , ’ said a senior official . |
| 8 | Erm the only example that I can think of where that went wrong was where there was a delay in the post but er we certainly do endeavour , it was er it was something which we 've introduced in the last erm eighteen months and it 's been welcomed by members and er it is certainly our intention to give everyone as much notice as possible . |
| 9 | It 's for this reason that many of the shop stewards ' conferences that we 've convened in the last year have been pressing a policy of consolidating bonus pay into the basic rates and we 've achieved some small success in this in building brick and in one or two other industries . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's the last thing Portadown needs because we 've tried in the last year to regenerate the town . ’ |
| 11 | And just a wee Some of the achievements we 've had in the last ten years . |
| 12 | It 's probably the most serious incident we 've had in the last 6 months to a year . |
| 13 | Mrs Thatcher , who returned from the United States last night , said : ‘ Everything we have done in the last 13 years will be conserved and built on into the future . |
| 14 | ‘ But we are proud of what we have done in the last year and a half . ’ |
| 15 | As we have seen in the last chapter the surface of even the smoothest glass is infested with tiny invisible cracks and even if it were not , it soon would be when it had brushed against some other solid . |
| 16 | The aim of this research is to investigate the role of money income targets for a small open economy such as the UK , and their relationship with policies designed to avoid fluctuations in the exchange rate of the magnitude we have seen in the last few years . |
| 17 | Within five years Labour 's industrial policies would have wiped out the competitive advantage we have gained in the last decade . |
| 18 | We have Adopted in the last few years , the Modular Education System . |
| 19 | We have undergone in the last year a major refurbishment of all our guest and public rooms and now offer the comforts so necessary for a mini-break . |
| 20 | There are even special joys for women : the pride in learning a guaranteed way to keep the boots dry which , if performed behind waist-high bush , means ‘ you can casually and with dignity intact carry on a conversation with the rest of the camp ’ ; no more of the old ‘ search for a place to hide ( God forbid anyone should know we have to pee in the first place ) . ’ |
| 21 | Despite all the nuances we have introduced in the last few pages , there is no other way to put it . |
| 22 | Erm perhaps I can turn the the question on its head and and I think the way the County Council 's looked at it , what would be the implications of not providing for the needs of North Yorkshire , and that 's I think the approach that we have taken in the first instance , is to try and determine what the needs of North Yorkshire are and to borrow a phrase from Professor Lock , in strategic terms to look at er try to achieve full employment in North Yorkshire . |
| 23 | If so , the outcome will be close to that we have described in the last paragraph . |
| 24 | ‘ We plan to marry in the next few weeks and go to live with his parents in Toronto . |
| 25 | And it is increasingly common for us to need to bank in a third currency . ’ |