Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We regret to announce the death of a distinguished man of letters . |
| 2 | We regret to announce the death of Mabel Adams FHCIMA who died recently at the age of 92 . |
| 3 | This involved a long hike over Esk Hause to Gable , and to avoid the intense mid-day heat we agreed to leave the valley at dawn . |
| 4 | We fought to make the work quotas lighter and for salary rises , for a free midday meal , for women and children to get a full salary . |
| 5 | Such an approach was repudiated by Harold Macmillan , the then Prime Minister , when we applied to join the Community , as it had been by Winston Churchill before that . |
| 6 | Our Council officers , and I refer to their report , recommended that we applied to run the Scheme . |
| 7 | Authors ' reply , — W R Gransden and Susannah Eykyn say that we failed to emphasise the need for safe prescribing of aminoglycosides , and they mention two truisms applicable to all drugs . |
| 8 | We failed to lead the race for new products and we contributed to and suffered from heavy overcapacity . |
| 9 | ‘ The danger was there for all to see , but we failed to heed the warning , ’ he groaned . |
| 10 | Team manager Ken Knott said : ‘ We failed to make the gate first so in many races we got hammered for it . ’ |
| 11 | I have to confess that we failed to keep the secret until the day of publication : the sharp observation of sensed that ‘ something was going on ’ among his co-authors a few months before the book was published ! |
| 12 | We failed to get the day 1 samples from eight patients and the day 8 samples from one patient . |
| 13 | If we failed to get the balance right , teachers would lack the necessary motivation to implement our programmes of study . |
| 14 | We make ourselves known in the village w erm you see we 've got the peace movement at the moment and last year er we always have put a wreath . |
| 15 | They have we 're having to employ a specially approved you see we 've got the Health and Safety . |
| 16 | Even see we 've got the grandson over for the |
| 17 | We sought to test the proposition that , as a result of union hostility to temporary workers , the likelihood of their use would be inversely related to the strength of unions in the establishment . |
| 18 | I sought to score points earlier on the cavalier way in which previous Ministers dismissed the suggestions from the then Select Committee , by which we sought to limit the rate of increase in the residential care part of the Government 's budget . |
| 19 | We sought to investigate the hypothesis that episodes of spontaneous gastro-oesophageal reflux cause reflex UOS relaxations , which may be the mechanism of regurgitation rather than a deficiency of basal UOS tone . |
| 20 | Another way in which we sought to understand the nature of information structure in 5 was by saying that written discourse with a low degree of reciprocity proceeds as though answering a series of ‘ ghost ’ questions . |
| 21 | We intend to persuade the Church to engage in policy studies with the aim of developing people-oriented policies for the communication task . |
| 22 | ICI has important patents in the field , covering a number of different monomers and fillers and a variety of techniques for their use and we intend to exploit the position by developing a range of filled dispersions and materials based on them . ’ |
| 23 | We intend to spread the ownership of shares , homes , pensions and savings . |
| 24 | Father Hugh Mcaleese said : ‘ We are devastated , but we intend to restore the church to its former glory . |
| 25 | Here we intend to explain the operation of another EC institution , the European Investment Bank , which will probably have an important part to play in future progress towards economic and monetary union within the EC . |
| 26 | the case should be diaried and the advised immediately on expiry of the limitation period if we intend to take the point . |
| 27 | Therefore , we intend to repeal the Act when alternative regulations governing working times are in place . |
| 28 | Oh no it is n't we intend to redevelop the site |
| 29 | Mr in his statement C thirty three , had said quote , although he wished to care for Anna Jane as long as possible , I have already begun to have problems with my back therefore we intend to introduce the use of carers gradually so that Anna Jane gets used to them . |
| 30 | At a press conference on Jan. 21 the new PS first secretary , Fabius , called for a " mobilization " against the National Front and declared : " We intend making the struggle against the far right … one of the central pillars of our activities . " |