Example sentences of "we [vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | We agreed to have him for a fortnight but when the time came he refused to go , and would be with us yet if it had not been for the First World War and your father having to go … |
| 3 | ‘ We tried to sign him in the summer that we bought Jim Leighton from Aberdeen , but the money Brondby were asking was out of the question , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 4 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 5 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 6 | We began to treat him like a strange alien person who need to be over-protected , who needed to be shielded from outsiders and the press . |
| 7 | I thumbed through the aeroplane magazine looking for articles on pre-ski protuberances — curiously there were none , and we decided to ignore it in the hope that it would go down roughly when the plane did . |
| 8 | ‘ When you 're writing stuff , these kinds of songs come out and you know you 're never going to use them seriously , but we had such a laugh when we were playing about with that one , we decided to use it on the single . |
| 9 | We decided to hire him for the day , and negotiated a price . |
| 10 | Repacking the camera gear , we decided to abandon it to the elements in orange survival bags , and bracing ourselves , we retreated down the steep and slippery slope . |
| 11 | We decided to show it to a booking agent who books cabaret , so I spoke to Harry Dawson who did a lot of , cabaret work and we auditioned it for him . |
| 12 | We decided to present him with a small token which he can take to his new life , and keep in memory of his bachelor days and the friends he has left behind . |
| 13 | However , we decided to try it with the food and tucked into some quite outstanding starters , including terrine of foie gras with wild mushrooms and some grilled bites of red mullet with caviar which positively leapt into the mouth . |
| 14 | ‘ We managed to sell it as a going concern , but got next to nothing for it and had to take a massive write-off . |
| 15 | I actually felt they hustled better than us though we managed to catch them on the break quite a bit , ’ said Blaney . |
| 16 | But at least we managed to keep it in the UK , although we had lots of offers to go abroad . |
| 17 | We were using the UK schedule when we said to expect them by the end of this month . |
| 18 | The cylinders were causing minor explosions and we had to tackle it from the outside , using the protection of adjoining buildings and cars . |
| 19 | The water was rising all the time , and we had to seal him inside a waterproof bag and drag him through the sump . ’ |
| 20 | The main problem was that we had to do it with a RELIANT ROBIN three wheeler car , looking remarkably similar to Del Boy 's . |
| 21 | And er it was er we had to develop it from a poorhouse into an old folks ' home . |
| 22 | When we 'd see these old people , we had to help them in every way , we were taught to do that . ’ |
| 23 | In the beginning an arm-band was all we had to identify us with an assortment of weapons , not enough ammunition , and not really knowing what our role was . |
| 24 | And obviously we would want to take money out of reserves , our original amendment took one point three million pounds out of reserves and it 's interesting to see now that you 're suggesting almost that figure again and yet for years you 've been telling us you ca n't take this money out of the reserves , er you know we had to keep it for a rainy day . |
| 25 | Er we also had one very large , cumbersome machine which carried things like lighting and breathing apparatus , and heavy lifting gear and all the other bits and pieces of rescue equipment , which came along in slow time , now that has been improved upon no end , and they 've got a very modern equipment now for that , erm er modern in the sense that new , new pieces have come on , cutting equipment with hydraulic jaws which er just slice through the top of a car roof , whereas we had to cut it with a hacksaw perhaps , or , or another metal saw , we , these can be done with just like cutting through cheese . |
| 26 | And then we had to tell her in the end ! |
| 27 | And up in the cellar , after the shooting , we had to make them to a brace like that , a cockerel and a hen . |
| 28 | ( That is why we refused to treat them as a separate school . ) |
| 29 | Our next meeting of our local group we refused to launch it on the day that we were doing the training , and if you 'd seen the launch yesterday it was absolutely bloody abysmal . |
| 30 | ‘ We wanted to put you in the picture , ’ Otley said . |