Example sentences of "we [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We expect to maintain into the next century our North Sea production of more than half a million boe/d . |
| 2 | We want to hear about the last visit you made to the hairdressers . |
| 3 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 4 | I agreed and we arranged to go to the second house . |
| 5 | We arranged to meet at the next new mum 's group at my house the following week . |
| 6 | ‘ This declaration is not a blind bit of good to the workers who have to take over the jobs of those who have emigrated , ’ and ‘ Why do we have to wait till the next central committee meeting ? ’ were other grumbles . |
| 7 | We decided to forget about the third canister and made off across the cornfield at speed , the jeep bouncing up and down on the very uneven surface . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In this study we aimed to record for the first time patterns of UOS motility associated with occurrence of GOR in children referred for evaluation of suspected disorders of oesophageal motility including pathological gastro-oesophageal reflux . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So we had to wait for the next bus , which was six o'clock . |
| 12 | We had to wait until the next day before we got the results . |
| 13 | I have to say I enjoyed the first programme much more , simply because of the subject we had to discuss on the second one , which was Christmas . |
| 14 | We had to walk from the next stop . |
| 15 | 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 ) . ’ |
| 16 | But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority . |
| 17 | ‘ We plan to marry in the next few weeks and go to live with his parents in Toronto . |
| 18 | As a matter of urgency I think chairman , be because if we 're going to apply , we need to apply for the first of April |
| 19 | We still have a six-point buffer but I expect us to have to go to the last day of the season . ’ |