Example sentences of "we [verb] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working with the museum 's curatorial and education staffs , and our consulting architect , we consulted a broad group of experts . |
| 2 | After the meeting Mr Fallon said : ‘ We made a good bit of progress . |
| 3 | On 22 June we made a revised offer of 7.5 per cent for the nurses and 6 per cent for the ancillaries and administrative staff . |
| 4 | After that we made a thorough search of the chapel , its walls , flagstones and altar , but there was nothing . |
| 5 | We made a last cup of tea on the camping stove and retired midnight . |
| 6 | we made an awful lot of erm noise about erm you know , this is not actually a co a concert , this is come and do your party piece , come and show off , is there anything you 'd like to get together ? |
| 7 | It is not difficult to see that in understanding such an exchange we make a great number of detailed ( pragmatic ) inferences about the nature of the context in which ( 32 ) can be assumed to be taking place . |
| 8 | We also see that teaching will build people up and we make a small amount of time after worship for this also . |
| 9 | ( In this text we make a similar use of set theory . |
| 10 | To assess such a claim requires that we make a giant leap of the imagination to transport us to a state of ignorance about even the most elementary principles of physics . |
| 11 | We 've done relatively well in the past couple of years because we 've had a lot of petrol pumps , because of the new , the opening of the big supermar the , the supermarkets where there 's thirty , forty pumps go going , we make a fair bit of money in that way . |
| 12 | For infants under the age of 2 years ( on the date of their return flight ) , we make a nominal charge of £65 for travel and for providing a cot , and you settle directly with the hotel for food and any other extras . |
| 13 | But the paradox goes like this — I mean any form of it is as follows : proteins , as most of you know , are strings of amino acids and we make a whole series of quite specific proteins . |
| 14 | We make a big show of our moral objections , but what really puts us off are the technical ones . |
| 15 | ‘ We produced a major amount of paperwork . ’ |
| 16 | We produced a short series of 15 minute programmes featuring Bert Peachell and his String Quartet , which had a good reception , albeit string quartets are not the most popular of radio fare . |
| 17 | However , we produced a special lexicon of the corpus ( the ‘ Distributional Lexicon ’ ) giving details of the word co-occurrences and word-class co-occurrences . |
| 18 | Er that did n't draw any response from the County Council , so in er December nineteen ninety two when er when the deposit draft came through er we sought a clear understanding of the County Council position . |
| 19 | Before reaching St David 's Head we passed a massive rampart of stone stretching 200ft from cliff to cliff . |
| 20 | We asked a random sample of social workers around the country ‘ What do you think 1 April will mean for you and your clients ? ’ |
| 21 | We asked a random selection of women who were in Darlington for market day to tell us how old they were . |
| 22 | In 1986 we became a full member of the Tokyo Stock Exchange . |
| 23 | Ultimately we reach the ridge , where we favour an intricate design of vees and scallops called a ‘ block-cut patterned ridge ’ , held down by a heavy lattice pattern of hazel spars . |
| 24 | We got a tremendous shock of course and I was extremely upset because the love of my life had nearly been made part of the road surface . |
| 25 | are preferred supplier , for basically we got a hundred percent of the business in the States . |
| 26 | We got a massive box of them left over from Christmas . |
| 27 | We got a cold gust of er icy winds when that I think was out in blossom then there would n't be many conkers . |
| 28 | Now , that 's really great to me because I mean , you 're really stimulating the youngsters at that age , and quite obviously I could tell you loads of stories the way this neighbourhood engineers er er , scheme works at the moment but as I say we are embarrassed at the moment because , quite obviously , loads of school want us to participate but we got a very shortage of engineers . |
| 29 | ‘ Two days ago we got a dire warning of what would happen under Labour . |
| 30 | We planned a good tour of the near peaks of Windermere . |