Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’
2 ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’
3 Appreciation of the ways in which the various shapes are related enables the teacher to ask further leading questions when a suitable opening presents itself in a child 's play ( e.g. commenting on the way the flat slabs will go together to make a staircase of three steps — ‘ What would we need to make the next step ? ’ ) .
4 This time we want to make the 1st division .
5 We deserved to win the 1st leg too .
6 We prepared to leave the next day .
7 ‘ Ironically by the time we came to do the first episode again , my hair had grown a little longer , so it was n't quite as eye-catching , but even so I think it 's a very unrecognised feather in Doctor Who 's cap that we created the look which launched Vidal Sassoon on his road to fame and fortune . ’
8 I thought we 'd seen the last of him , after what he did to Jennifer . ’
9 Joe did n't speak again until we 'd finished the second stage .
10 We thought we 'd had the last laugh when we got to the play-off finals against Charlton but he was an even bigger pain in the arse after that .
11 I kept making the point on Saturday here at Lane Martin , that I did n't think that erm we 'd had the last of the goals as they kept er popping in at both ends , and I 'm sure though we 've had three with a little over half an hour played here , we have n't seen the last of the goals here either .
12 We called ploughing the last furrow in a stetch taking up the brew .
13 Eventually we reached the Aru Islands , close to the shores of west New Guinea , where we managed to record the first ever colour footage of the golden-tailed bird in its natural habitat .
14 and yeah we did forget the first paragraph of the of what we had learned so we just covered what we 'd done really
15 ‘ If we do join the Third World it will be as a member of OPEC . ’
16 Right as far as I 'm concerned we 've completed the first four points on the agenda right .
17 Slide through an alleyway that seems to have history inscribed on its cobbled stones and we 've reached the first stop .
18 But we 've noticed the last few times it 's all Jacqueline now .
19 We 've seen the last of him . ’
20 As his wife Susan says : ‘ I do n't think we 've seen the last of him . ’
21 I 'm sad to say it but I think we 've seen the last of him , Bless him !
22 And I do n't think we 've seen the last from Pisa at two one .
23 Only as we 've lost the last one , I 'm hanging on to , it 's hanging in my wardrobe , I 'm not making a third one
24 And me we 've missed the first two innings .
25 We 've missed the first two innings .
26 The police do n't think we 've heard the last of the attackers who seem prepared to endanger many lives in an attempt to reach their targets .
27 ‘ Now we 've finished the last series of Pemberley , I hope I can get down to some serious work on it . ’
28 we 've finished the last , we 've finished the last one .
29 we 've finished the last , we 've finished the last one .
30 my Lord I think so yes , erm if I can just say this I understand on the structures that a letter has been , er , an offer has been made by a letter erm of the structure and obviously there would be and that , that was done I think some time ago , erm and it might be my Lord how to what sort of structure is , but , but , erm I think from our side , erm we , we 've taken the first step and we 're going
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