Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I would totally support the move that you 're suggesting Mr Chairman , if we are asked to provide another one percent or whatever can be done , erm , I would suggest that the obvious way to get that money would be to offer them the ten thousand that we agreed to spend this morning . |
| 2 | We agreed to give more money to the French for agriculture . |
| 3 | We agreed to contact each other first if that happened in the future , before making a reply . |
| 4 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 5 | You see we 've got some gentlemen here , they 'll do it for you . |
| 6 | ’ Yes sir , ’ the leader said , ’ we intend to interview that person before he leaves . |
| 7 | We intend to take this recommendation for action . |
| 8 | We intend to repeat that exercise . |
| 9 | How about a statement of what we intend to do this week , |
| 10 | As we intend to use this theory in Chapter 7 to explore the implications of new technology for the shape of organisations , it is important to develop our understanding of organisational processes in the light of this radical attack . |
| 11 | But the underlying purpose , that of reducing unnecessary bureaucracy , stripping away the red tape which hinders enterprise and good er governance in this country , is something that the government is very committed to and we intend to promulgate that doctrine throughout all the areas and that of course is being taken forward in legislation . |
| 12 | We intend to reject this approach , and instead to embrace Dahl 's claim that ‘ every large corporation should be thought of as a social enterprise ; that is , as an entity whose existence and decisions can be justified only insofar as they serve public or social purposes ’ . |
| 13 | And er we intend to er capitalize er on our and indeed er makers of Highland Spring Water their market share is reducing and we intend to capture that portion . |
| 14 | Erm , we 've got some publicity material produced , posters we intend doing several displays county hall , headquarters , all police stations will have posters sent out to them , probably libraries will be circulated with them , er it 's a last minute job typical we only just found about it , we do what we can we need some sort of press exercise do n't we you know . |
| 15 | We 've limited our ambitions to a number of very specific areas and we intend to develop those areas as rapidly as we can . |
| 16 | So the decision is whether we borrow to protect those services , that 's to the elderly , to the school children , to education and to try and enhance our road system . |
| 17 | But when it happens in our waking life , we tend to dismiss such incidents as meaningless . |
| 18 | Comfortably seated in a television studio or before a television set , we tend to forget that experience and offer pious hopes that public transport will improve to such an extent that in some miraculous way new roads will be unnecessary . |
| 19 | When we get our heads together , we tend to mess each other up . |
| 20 | One of the nice aspects of a task such as that is that I think we , as professional physicists — and I 'm a physicist too erm we , as professional physicists , feel there 's a right way of doing something because it 's the way we learnt and we 've got used to , and we tend to instil this idea into other people . |
| 21 | We tend to know each other pretty well , and to share a lot of things — goals , objectives , commitments . |
| 22 | Although we tend to get most spots in our teens , we are liable to get the odd pimple even after 40 , and ‘ cosmetic acne ’ can cause distress at any age . |
| 23 | Oh , he 's got to get motivated cos if we 're going away we got to save some pennies up and if we commit ourselves then we 've got to save pennies up , it 's no good coming and saying to me you 're going away next week , I shall turn round and say sod you matey we 're not cos we 've got no bloody money . |
| 24 | ‘ We got to feed those horses . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ So I auditioned for them and they auditioned for me and we got to like each other and at that stage we did n't give a shit what each other looked like , we just realised that there was talent there . |
| 26 | ‘ Although I tended not to write about her once we got to know each other , she has never asked me not to publish anything . |
| 27 | So erm the surrogate was artificially inseminated herself erm er , it took us seven months to achieve a pregnancy , and during this time we got to know each other very well |
| 28 | ‘ Scientists and engineers are devising ways of living that drop carbon dioxide emissions , but do we want to live that way ? ’ |
| 29 | Do we want to do that Jane ? |
| 30 | ‘ Do we want to find this menace or not ? ’ he shouted . |