Example sentences of "we [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | In the meantime I have enclosed a statement which we helped to prepare in the run up to the Earth Summit . |
| 3 | The day after we tried to telephone from the post office but could not get through to Alassio . |
| 4 | Once firmly established , it tends to justify itself , as we tried to show in the section on the strength of the boom . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ But we seemed to freeze at the start , ’ conceded Nicholl . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Whenever these arguments showed signs of running out of steam , we turned to complain about the inadequacy of the supporting papers . |
| 10 | We arranged to meet at the hotel the following morning . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The very day that we began to meet in the community centre where we are based , three mothers with their children began to attend . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And instead of seeing it as something God had ordained , we began to look at the exploitation of the poor by the rich in a political way , but using Christian concepts . |
| 16 | We needed to alternate between the past and the future , and while we had two good historical scripts in , none of the writers David had commissioned had yet produced anything set in the future which we could use . |
| 17 | As we drove back we started to plan for the return to Backnong in 1993 . |
| 18 | But , you know , if , if , if I 'd have put , when we , when we started to talk at the beginning of this term we had at the beginning a general discussion about what are we gon na put in land reform , if I 'd have come along to s to you and I 'd said well I think we should do this |
| 19 | It was then we found out who oc , who was the occupant of that flat then we started to look at the connection between and . |
| 20 | We decided to return to the Crot and ran into the Bruton brothers , Ron and Reg , who said they would come along with us . |
| 21 | One landed in the street , very close , and we decided to go into the cellar . |
| 22 | We landed near the southeast tip of Ronay. defeated by the elements , we decided to go with the flow and explore this wild , windswept and uninhabited island on foot . |
| 23 | The first bloke was late so , instead of waiting , we decided to go to the pub . |
| 24 | He was going to tell his mother and sister on the Friday and , to break the ice , we decided to go to the Fire Festival on Saturday ; he was to pick me up here at eight and we were going together . ’ |
| 25 | After a while we decided to round off the day by taking ourselves to the cinema , and ended up by catching the 11pm liberty wagon back to camp . |
| 26 | So , at the very last minute we decided to perform on the lawn outside the main building . |
| 27 | Denise Wong , the artistic director of the company and director of the piece says , ‘ We wanted to look at mothers , but it is such a vast topic that we decided to concentrate on the mother and daughter relationship , and the concept of unconditional love . |
| 28 | ‘ Because an objection was raised we decided to look at the matter again , ’ said Reg Pyne , assistant registrar , standards and ethics . |
| 29 | We decided to walk to the waterfall to see what Gullfoss , well known to us in the summer , had to offer in winter . |
| 30 | We decided to stay in the house and have an early lunch with some of Lady Furness ’ friends . |