Example sentences of "[vb past] agree " in BNC.

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1 We did agree we 'd start before twelve . ’
2 Despite official denials , it appears the US did agree to play a limited , and deniable , role in the rebellion .
3 ‘ One of the things I thought we did agree was that we should not do the Government 's dirty work for them .
4 However , he did agree that there should be an international authority , as long as it included the USA .
5 Almost all of them , though , did agree on getting rid of the Russians .
6 Kylie did agree with him on that .
7 Of course , people did agree with each other , and they did disagree , and they argued , persuaded , insinuated .
8 Needless to say , there was no promise of 90% grant-aid which was not in the Ashby Report anyway , but the Minister did agree to reconsider the proposal to omit Tutorial Classes from the grant regulations .
9 After parents agreed to use the exchange ( and not all of them did agree ) , they were summoned with their child to an interview by a selection of the members of the local JAC , which had a list of vacancies , and the young person was sent to one of these .
10 These ‘ leading experts ’ did agree to recommend lower doses for elderly patients 7 ½ months later .
11 But they did agree to disagree about the how and why of storytelling and , as Ms Sontag concluded , ‘ We are going to go on talking about this for many years but now , alas , we have to stop ’ .
12 The Duc d'Orléans refused Stair 's demand to hand over the ships and their contents to Byng but did agree to unload the weapons and remove them for safe keeping to a French arsenal , a notable diplomatic triumph .
13 To those who did agree to sell , but now find their acceptance forms are being returned to them , I can only hope that you are not too disappointed at being involuntarily back on the winning side !
14 On this occasion , he did agree to make a speech on stage after the performance , although at first Sherek " thought he was not going to say anything at all , because he just stood there trying to see his wife 's face in the audience " .
15 The cat was set among the pigeons in 1952 when , von Neumann notwithstanding , David Bohm constructed a specific example of a hidden variable theory which did agree precisely with conventional quantum mechanics in all its empirical predictions .
16 That 's what I he did agree to it when I I mentioned it to him but I just ha I want to check if he 's doing one tomorrow , cos if he 's doing one tomorrow it might be tomorrow morning so I 'll have
17 A plan to go into business with Chris Blackwell at Island did not materialise ; but she did agree to operate a new company , InterDisc , under the aegis of CBS .
18 And thereupon their Majestyes were pleased that the said lords spirituall and temporall and commons being the two Houses of Parlyament should continue to sitt and with their Majesty 's Roy all concurrence make effectuall provision for the settlement of the religion lawes and liberties of this king dome soe that the same for the future might not be in danger againe of being subverted , to which the said lords spirituall and temporall and commons did agree and proceede to act accordingly .
19 The government also failed to take up the recommendation to ‘ ring-fence ’ community care budget allocations , except in the case of mental health services where they did agree to a specific grant which would only be spent on community care service plans developed jointly by the health and social services .
20 If , on the other hand , it never occurred to the defendant that the victim was young or mentally abnormal , and he was not aware therefore that he was in a situation of potential risk , he should not be liable for rape providing that he took reasonable steps to ascertain that she did agree to vaginal penetration , for in such a case his conduct is reasonable in the light of the facts as he perceived them to be .
21 Erm I , I never did agree with that very much really .
22 So really if we did agree that any of those supplementary factors were going to be significant .
23 " The next one can be yours , if this one is n't right , but we did agree to do it this way ; it was just luck it 's my answer first .
24 The government consistently refused demands from many quarters to reform the NSA but in October 1989 the DJP did agree to support a revision of the law as it related to the Agency for National Security Planning .
25 The discussion of military issues was postponed until February , but delegates did agree the military oaths for servicemen in the CIS strategic forces , and in the armed forces which seven states were to have in common ( i.e. not Ukraine , Byelarus , Azerbaijan , Moldova ) .
26 They did agree to continue lower-level meetings between party representatives and Brian Mawhinney , a Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office .
27 Ministers did agree that the IMF should accept the former republics as members by April [ see also p. 38747 ] .
28 Hungary did agree , however , to buy military equipment and spares worth $800 million in part-settlement of the debt .
29 He did agree to the sentence ‘ It 's legal now , ’ being included .
30 And where the beer did agree eventually , I mean under slight pressure .
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