Example sentences of "[that] we [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 But if we react too strongly to fear , the brake is applied so hard that we come to a standstill , and fail to grow — which means a wasted lifetime .
3 ‘ Now all this basic planning does take time , which is why it is essential that we come onto a programme during its very early planning stages .
4 With his own modest roots he dismisses the attacks on a class-based judiciary : ‘ The youngsters believe that we come from a narrow background — it 's all nonsense — they get it from that man Griffith . ’
5 The fact that we come from a capitalist country means that some topics tend to be dealt with delicately or avoided , but that is all .
6 Years later , on the day our first child was due to be born , when it became obvious that the birth was not imminent , my husband Roger suggested that we go to a film to take our minds off the event .
7 Well I think what you 've got to be careful of and it 's always a difficulty when you 're looking at er benefits and dis-benefits of major road schemes , you 'll see that we go into a tremendous amount of or collect a tremendous amount of information about the different impacts .
8 The only exception to this procedure was on those days that we went to a service in the church .
9 On some nights one can see so many of these popularly-called shooting stars that we speak of a star or meteor shower .
10 It is very rare that we disagree as an industry , but it is equally rare that we speak in a co-ordinated way , ’ he said .
11 To make sure that we 're able to put our point across clearly so that we speak in a clear way so that people do n't have any er doubts as to what you actually mean .
12 Then we had to ski down to the next lot of lifts which went even higher and when we had mastered that we got on a chairlift which took us right to the top .
13 But insisted that we got into a rowing boat instead , so we did , and after failures to dissuade us , we were promptly joined by three park-keepers who sat in the boat and insisted on ‘ helping ’ us to row !
14 The only local paper that we get on a regular basis is the Evening News which is scanned daily .
15 Let me read you two or three other verses from that same book of Hebrews that we read from a few moments ago .
16 And to ensure that we act as a group and not just a collection of separate offices .
17 We argued , rightly , that we believed in a diversity of supply and we wanted to ensure that that diversity of supply was available .
18 Er this is the end of the day report and that we keep in a file and they , they could be brought .
19 I mean it 's an enormous resource in terms of talented people , facilities , interesting ideas that we use as a bank to fuel other parts of the region which are less active .
20 It 's not like the prayers that we heard about a few weeks ago , from Paul 's letters to Timothy and Philemon , where he was addressing an individual .
21 I decided to make a development of a circular pedestal table that we made for a client last year .
22 That was the doctoring that we had for a broken collar bone you see ?
23 that we had in a six month period .
24 We were so incensed by her trying to run things just because she was Bob 's girlfriend — after all , what 's a concert party without a leg show ? — that we left in a bunch , and that was the end of that idea .
25 I remind that we put in a housing investment bid for a hundred and twelve million pounds and were given the right to buy thirteen million .
26 A song that we hear as a long light squeal .
27 Asked one angry betting shop punter : ‘ Why is it only afterwards that we hear of a betting coup ?
28 Many astronomers have thought that these very distant and powerful sources are simply quasars that we see at a special angle , but the new statistical analysis seems to rule this out .
29 In other words , the argument works equally against the view that we think in a kind of mental language , that mental sentences rather than mental pictures are the stuff of thought .
30 erm it 's it reminds me of the kind of embarrassments that we experience on a number of levels actually .
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