Example sentences of "[vb past] we [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was positive in all he did and this approach helped us to win many games against the clock or the weather . |
| 2 | He advised us to treat any claims of recovery with caution , and he forecast sluggish demand over the next 18 months . |
| 3 | And then the solicitor asked us to advised us to have certain things amended and Mr had no problem when I told him over the telephone , he just said send it back and we 'll just amend it . |
| 4 | A breed book advised us to get another Yorkie of the same sex , and so we acquired Ollie as a young puppy . |
| 5 | He says they told us to wait for two hours which we did then they told us to wait another hour and a half . |
| 6 | Our sincere thanks go to all the patients who have volunteered to share their experiences and allowed us to divulge intimate details about them , in the hope of helping others . |
| 7 | The availability of omeprazole allowed us to achieve complete healing of oesophagitis in all our patients which would not have been possible before this drug was available . |
| 8 | Moreover , histopathological examination of fundic argyrophil cell growth allowed us to make several observations . |
| 9 | The multiple alignments whose fragments are shown in Figs. 3 and 4 allowed us to obtain optimized calculations of the similarity existing among the yeast , Drosophila , vaccinia virus and ASFV RNA polymerase subunits . |
| 10 | The food and drinks offered by the hosts were , I thought , just about right , and very reasonable in price , which encouraged us to use this service , despite the service station stops . |
| 11 | This controversy and the importance of intestinal carnitine handling prompted us to investigate carnitine concentrations in malabsorption . |
| 12 | The high level of enquiries resulted in another intensive year 's effort by the tendering teams which enabled us to submit more tenders by number and value than we did in 1991 . |
| 13 | Insertion of a ventilation tube in only one ear enabled us to assess this procedure both alone and in combination with adenoidectomy and adenotonsillectomy . |
| 14 | Chris Bird , exploration team leader of the Atlantic Frontier Programme said : ‘ The success of the survey has accelerated the whole ‘ 204 ’ exploration and appraisal programme and at the same time enabled us to obtain additional data on the area . ’ |
| 15 | And they were led — incredulity forced us to ask each other later if we had seen it — these legions of men in full battledress were led by a lone soldier in a forage cap sitting atop a T-62 tank , playing a flute . |
| 16 | Our efforts to provide Cuba with the petroleum products it needed put a heavy burden on our own shipping system and forced us to order extra tankers from Italy . |
| 17 | Having to tackle procedures restricted by legislation also forced us to apply political theories to practical realities without too much compromise . |
| 18 | But within the S S A , the government expected us to have three point nine million receipts . |
| 19 | The completeness of the oocyte test system led us to utilize this system when we started our studies on the requirements for formation of N 2 , N 2 -dimethylguanosine in position 26 ( m 2 G26 ) in yeast tRNAs . |
| 20 | It is , of course , important to improve the trial process as much as possible but the trial can not be expected to offer an alternative to testing by way of re-investigation for reasons similar to those that led us to reject prosecutorial review as an alternative . |
| 21 | Quite unexpectedly , we found that there was another type of ganglion cell which we called the on-type directionally selective because , when plotting their receptive fields with a stationary spot , they only responded at onset , unlike the other type I have just illustrated which responded at both onset and offset ; we still do not understand the reason for this , but it led us to discover other differences . |
| 22 | Hitherto , when they asked us to obey those laws , we have known that we could change them , but hereafter a combination of people with different languages , understandings and cultures can set , and are by combination setting , upon us standards , rules and laws which may be suitable for Greece , central or northern Europe , France or Spain but which are not right for us . |
| 23 | Now , is it the intention of the people who asked us to take this action that we should just boycott Nestles products , or we should do the whole range of the conglomerate that owns all these people like Rowntrees and Cross and Blackwell , and many other companies as well . |
| 24 | I understand the C E C asked us to withdraw this motion because they say it is not necessary . |
| 25 | Wherever we walked people asked us to treat inflamed eyes , limbs swollen by filariasis , and all manner of festering sores . |
| 26 | SUZANNE WILKINSON , Consumer Research Editor , reviews the subjects — hot and cold — that you wanted us to investigate this year . |