Example sentences of "we [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , I refused Toby 's offer of a drink , and we agreed to sleep on the problem and talk again sometime during the following day . |
| 2 | I knew that it would at the very least be fun to fail again , however effortlessly , and we agreed to meet at a pub in Barnes on the following evening . |
| 3 | Erm , members who are also members of the Business Grants Panel will recall that at the December meeting we agreed to grant to a company so he may relocate into the area creating twenty seven jobs , and Friday we learnt that relocation 's to go ahead to Telford . |
| 4 | We had tea afterwards in a hotel in Berthing , but we failed to come to an agreement . |
| 5 | In the meantime I have enclosed a statement which we helped to prepare in the run up to the Earth Summit . |
| 6 | we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons |
| 7 | ‘ If I tell anyone that we stopped to look for a ghost , they 'll laugh at me , and if I was you , I would n't tell your mates either . |
| 8 | Coming to Old Gang Smelting Mills we stopped to look for a while at the most complete collection of buildings still standing in the mining field , although comparing them now with photographs taken in the 1930s it 's obvious that they 're slowly falling apart . |
| 9 | The day after we tried to telephone from the post office but could not get through to Alassio . |
| 10 | He varied this routine by pushing rubbish through the letter box , pulling the flowers from the tiny strip of garden we tried to cultivate between the flagstones and chalking rude messages on my car . |
| 11 | We tried to keep about a mile in front of the runners , grabbing photographs whenever we could , but it was n't easy . |
| 12 | Once firmly established , it tends to justify itself , as we tried to show in the section on the strength of the boom . |
| 13 | Then we tried to cut across the fields at the bottom and that was a mistake , they were all ploughed up . |
| 14 | Just glancing through my logbook of 1939-40 , I find it astonishing how little we seemed to do before the advent of the German breakthrough in the Low Countries , I see what are described as security patrols , where we flew , and in daylight . |
| 15 | ‘ But we seemed to freeze at the start , ’ conceded Nicholl . |
| 16 | We were coming up to a twist in the precipitous road ; as we swung round it , the wheels screamed and we seemed to swerve towards the edge of the precipice . |
| 17 | We hardly said anything , we seemed to communicate through the chessmen , there was something very symbolic about my winning . |
| 18 | We came to live in the south side of the city , and joined the local parish church which , by coincidence , had been Leslie 's mother 's church ; he himself had not been a member , nor had I attended it . |
| 19 | Only when Marcella had relaxed sufficiently to sit back in her chair and release her tight hold on the dog did he risk intervention : ‘ We came to talk about the Garlands . ’ |
| 20 | Whenever these arguments showed signs of running out of steam , we turned to complain about the inadequacy of the supporting papers . |
| 21 | We arranged to meet at the hotel the following morning . |
| 22 | We arranged to meet on a bench outside the Royal Academy at five o'clock . |
| 23 | So we arranged to meet in the Brunel Bar in the Great Western Hotel at Paddington |
| 24 | Perhaps this debate wo n't be as lively and er as controversial as the one that er we arranged to have on the question of insider dealing but it is an important matter because auditing as I said , is not just as assistance to companies but it is a reassurance to the general public and the public at the moment are in need of grave reassurance that the insur that the er the financial services industry as well as industry generally , is being properly looked after and for these reasons er although we support er the orders before er the house tonight , we have no hesitation at all in ensuring that they are debated properly than not something that should simply go through on the nod . |
| 25 | Catesby instructed us to take a bench leaning against the far wall and , though the space was narrow , we began to pound at the door like besiegers breaking into a castle . |
| 26 | I saw how the well-documented material containing the truth about Fayed that we began to put before the DTI was received in embarrassed silence . |
| 27 | So we began to ponder on the circumstances which might have made it necessary for such a tiny place to be defended . |
| 28 | The very day that we began to meet in the community centre where we are based , three mothers with their children began to attend . |
| 29 | Inevitably , our friendship overlapped the boundaries of work and we began to meet in the evenings . |
| 30 | I also took part in conferences of Burma missionaries in Lahore , Lucknow and Mussourie , in which we began to think about the revival of our considerable educational work . |