Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We agreed to do the same number of hours … ’ |
| 2 | These included Candida , Heartbreak House , The Wild Duck and An Ideal Husband in which we agreed to play the dreadful Chilterns . |
| 3 | Nor when the Tory press informs us , as it does unceasingly , that ‘ Britain has a profound tradition of unregimented , tolerant order ’ should we rush to indict the historical embroidery of newspaper editors . |
| 4 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ To be honest , Clem , it started to go out twenty years ago when we failed to join the Common Market at the outset . |
| 7 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
| 8 | We intend to ask the local government commission , which we hope to set up , to consider whether people want unitary authorities to be treated as part of historical counties for certain traditional or non-administrative purposes such as sport , a theme to which I shall return . |
| 9 | We intend to implement the new Quality Framework in session 1992/3 . |
| 10 | You may ask how we intend to define the objective ‘ foremost ’ . |
| 11 | He added : ‘ Now we intend to win the European Cup . ’ |
| 12 | At Chorley , Manager Tony Willis said , ‘ It 's not every day a branch celebrates such an anniversary so we intend to make the most of it ! ’ |
| 13 | We tend to forget the immense labour involved in forging the literally thousands of wire rings , which had then to be beaten flat , holes drilled into each end , and rivets added . |
| 14 | We tend to regard the Middle East as a ‘ trouble spot ’ and our understanding of the region and its culture is limited by the stereotyped images we receive through the media . |
| 15 | As anthropologists we tend to regard the larger society from the local community 's viewpoint and to see events in terms of the impact that outside influences have upon known individuals . |
| 16 | Not only are we all primed to look for regularities , we tend to perceive the same regularities . |
| 17 | One reason advanced by some is that we tend to value the personal above other things . |
| 18 | As well as being a mate of Yeti 's at school we worked together at Whiteleys , the department store in Queensway , on Thursday evenings after school and all day Saturday — for which we got paid the grand total of 36 shillings or £1.80 today . |
| 19 | Now by impartment , we mean , we mean , enabling , we mean helping the voluntary sector to be more ef effective and efficient in the use of its scarce resources . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , we give notice that we mean to bring the individual actors back from the wings later , because we believe that states and systems do not account for everything important in international relations . |
| 21 | Could anybody bring us a bottle down here you know because that would be nice would n't it on a on a cool Saturday afternoon here as we sit overlooking the grand metropolis of York . |
| 22 | We cease to register the full meaning . |
| 23 | Do we need to teach the visual elements of communication ? |
| 24 | I E do we need to know that the trend is changing or do we need to know the particular slots where we get non performance . |
| 25 | 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 ? ’ ) . |
| 26 | Para 5.1.2 We suggest altering the final line to read ‘ … postholder 's subject specialisms which include botanical literature , botanical history , information management , database and other software . ’ |
| 27 | A very prosaic theory proposes that the electrical activity of the brain as we sleep produces the mental equivalent of white noise and that , just as we can make ourselves hear music in white noise , our unconscious can pick out a coherent story from the baffling array of visual images presented to it . |
| 28 | We have returns so far from sixty five per cent of the schools and we expect to have the remaining schools before the end of the month , I would n't expect it to change from where we are at the moment but if there was a significant variation then I will be in a position to report back to the Policy Committee at the end of the month but I 'm , I 'm not expecting that need be the case . |
| 29 | We expect to find the missing information in the largely unexplored group of algae and protozoans . |
| 30 | In this chapter we propose to consider the political relevance of the law , the courts and the judges within the context of the making and implementation of policy in the political process . |