Example sentences of "we [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All except ( 6 ) have an introductory adverbial clause or phrase providing a point of orientation before we launch into a main clause . |
| 2 | We agreed on a short-term goal of maintenance of nutritional intake and Mrs Allen said she would make sure she ate one ‘ proper ’ meal each day . |
| 3 | I see from my files that we agreed to a slight change to the Agreement for the above tape , and a revised page 2 of the document was sent to you on 20 April . |
| 4 | We agreed to a limited extension on the basis that we would have to show the court that we had provided reasonable opportunity for the Department to consider the matter . |
| 5 | ‘ We met on a professional basis , ’ said Gregson , his smile broadening . |
| 6 | My photographic equipment was a bit limited by the fact that as a leader I was required to carry a heavy hunting rifle all the time we were ashore , just in case we met with a polar bear in a nasty mood . |
| 7 | And in the dark , when we lay beneath a single sheet and I gave off a Calabrian sweat , when the middle stretch of the night was shorter but still hard to get through — then , as I turned towards that loose S beside me , she would , with a soft murmur , try to lift the lost hair from the back of her neck . |
| 8 | There is no logical starting point , since we bring to a literary text simultaneously two faculties , however imperfectly developed : our ability to respond to it as a literary work and our ability to observe its language . |
| 9 | My group has nothing to be ashamed of , but , like everybody else nowadays , we suffer from a general shortage of cash . |
| 10 | Cos we advertise in a special format do n't we ? |
| 11 | We cruised to a big lead without getting out of bottom gear and continuity was difficult to obtain after half-time . ’ |
| 12 | Indeed , he had hardly referred to her except once as we passed through a small hamlet and had seen children baiting a poor , crazed woman by the crossroads . |
| 13 | On the verge of Connemara , we passed through a steep valley of rocks poised as if to roll down upon us . |
| 14 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |
| 15 | We lived on a small farm which had been partly burnt down , some 1½ km from the main military camp . |
| 16 | We lived in a three-bedroomed council house , one of the bedrooms being little more than a boxroom , and by this time there were seven of us in the family . |
| 17 | But we lived in a middle-class neighbourhood and I met with a lot of disapproval . |
| 18 | And , if the positions were reversed and we lived in a black-dominated society … |
| 19 | Let me put it another way , if we lived in a magic world , and were n't having things like essays and package deals together , and any officer was being asked to forecast the money that would be needed for the sensible and , and virile implementation of five B , would you arrive at a figure of about thirty thousand pounds or not ? |
| 20 | We lived in a rented cottage in a remote Welsh valley with no luxuries . |
| 21 | We owned no property , as we lived in a rented flat and in any case needed a home in London for at least two more years . |
| 22 | We lived in a large farmhouse , that belonged to the farm my father worked for . |
| 23 | We lived in a high-rise apartment , so I wo n't miss that , and the only garden I ever get to see is my mum 's when we go down there on Sundays sometimes . |
| 24 | We went off and we got to a steep hill , we all had to get out |
| 25 | Here , we concentrate on a partial equilibrium story and explore how economic agents tackle a rather difficult dynamic decision problem ; in later work we shall embed this story in a market context , but this first step will enable us to isolate certain elements in the market story . |
| 26 | The area , I mean , we back onto a big council estate . |
| 27 | Bailey gives me instant coffee and a plate of Tesco jam doughnuts , still in their plastic packet , and we sit at a dusty picnic table outside , slapping off flies . |
| 28 | Now can we think of a famous thing that sometimes appears in space ? |
| 29 | If at some stage we entered into a single currency , we should have to deal with a different matter . |
| 30 | In May 1979 , partly out of desperation , we entered upon a great experiment . |