Example sentences of "we [verb] [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We agreed to do the same number of hours … ’ |
| 2 | 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 ! ’ |
| 3 | Not only are we all primed to look for regularities , we tend to perceive the same regularities . |
| 4 | So the crucial question is not whether party programme A is preferred to party programme B ; the issue is whether we want to keep the same government for the next five years or whether we want a different one . |
| 5 | " Just as we used the tiger as a symbol to secure the protection of a huge diversity of habitats in India , so we want to achieve the same with the elephant in Africa " , Simon Lyster adds . |
| 6 | Speaking about the deal , Senseless Things manager Adrian Boss told NME : ‘ We want to make the most of this deal and maximise the opportunities that come along with having a worldwide deal . |
| 7 | We want to make the most of our membership , and create the sort of institutions and rules which we believe are in our best interests . |
| 8 | We hope to reassure the latter by showing that quantification is a less essential part of stylistics than this definition suggests . |
| 9 | I talked to the lady for some time and we seemed to like the same things , so I was pleased when their bid was the successful one . |
| 10 | We seem to think the same way . ’ |
| 11 | We decided to use the same system that we used for hospitals , making referrals to team leaders in the same way that we do to consultants . |
| 12 | But if we try to use the same two adjectives with the same two nouns in a predicative construction we shall find that the result is ungrammatical : ( 49 ) that rival was possible those two sailors are occasional As in other instances , it is not enough merely to record that possible , occasional and certain other adjectives are ungrammatical in predicative position when constructed with certain nouns . |
| 13 | This may seem harmless enough , but problems arise once we try to describe the latter kind of fact . |
| 14 | We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it . |
| 15 | If we wish to produce the same flux density as in the absence of the gap , we need to increase the current . |
| 16 | After er , purchasing we continued to produce the same materials erm , mainly er , directed towards the saddlery trade . |
| 17 | we had to make the most of it ! |
| 18 | Elizabeth Adams : ‘ I think perhaps I did not require from Somerville as much as I might here , fromJean Stanier : ‘ Somehow the fact that it was wartime put a sharper edge on things , as if we had to make the most of something that might not last ’ . |
| 19 | In a sense and a I 'm not sure if it 's only in a sense , that , that when we talk now of say are n't we trying to approach the same ? |
| 20 | ‘ David gives us that little bit extra , though we wanted to play the same tight 4–4-2 formation . |
| 21 | I 'm expecting him to chip-up and two-putt for a five ( the 17th was a par-5 ) , so I 'm thinking we have to do the same in reverse . |
| 22 | We tended to have the same meal on the same day of the week : roast on Sunday , cold meat on Monday , a steak-and-kidney pie or pudding on Tuesday , stew on Wednesday , salt beef on Thursday , fish on Friday and toad-in-the-hole on Saturday . |