Example sentences of "we [verb] [to-vb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | So we agreed to do it for him . |
| 3 | That is what we intend to do and we intend to do it on the basis of the criteria erm that we have set out . |
| 4 | ‘ We intend to keep it in its present immaculate condition and to taxi her up to take-off speeds at regular intervals to keep the engines and flight systems in perfect working order . |
| 5 | With machine knitting we tend to restrict it to a maximum of three stitches over three stitches because the machines are supplied with triple transfer tools . |
| 6 | When we examine something we tend to examine it within its own context . |
| 7 | We tend to see it from perhaps sort of Heathrow that you want to go in , into London because that 's where , where the links are , by roads an and then the part of the link we 've got is at Piccadilly line . |
| 8 | Beer seems such a simple drink that we tend to take it for granted . |
| 9 | Within the Western tradition of art we tend to take it for granted that much can be learned from the study of the art of the past and , traditionally , copying from the works of the Great Masters was one of a young student 's most important tasks . |
| 10 | Technology is so pervasive , so much an intrinsic part of modern life , that we tend to take it for granted . |
| 11 | For the rest of us , it seems commonplace and obvious that we should be able to think , imagine , perceive and remember in the ways that we do , and we tend to take it for granted that the rest of the world has the same sort of experience of everyday life that we do . |
| 12 | So we will need a tolerant and patient horse if we want to use it as a school horse , or a plough horse , or even a dressage horse . |
| 13 | Having found this macro we want to assign it to an icon but this entails designing an appropriate one . |
| 14 | We want to do it for him . ’ |
| 15 | Okay but we want to do it , good that 's it but we want to do it by times lots of these numbers times together . |
| 16 | and that if we want to borrow it in a couple weeks time |
| 17 | But we feel so ill at ease with silence that we want to fill it with endless clatter and talk about ourselves . |
| 18 | In fact we 've just refused er the application er to change the use of that site to housing , or some of that site to housing , er for the very reason that we want to keep it in employment use and at the same meeting we also refused another site , another major employment site , erm and we want to keep that in employment use as well . |
| 19 | We want to show it to you as we know it . |
| 20 | ‘ We want to make it to the restaurant some time this century ! ’ she heard him informing her . |
| 21 | Ferguson said : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation about Lee Sharpe and we want to end it by saying clearly what is wrong with him . |
| 22 | But we want to review it after a few months because as I say , once she 's got herself organized , it might be alright . |
| 23 | " We want to bring it to the attention of communities that they can do something about the rubbish in their streets , " said UNEP 's Richard Lumbe , launching the campaign in Nairobi . |
| 24 | The Copts will say we tried to put it on him and the Moslems will say we let him off . ’ |
| 25 | It did n't happen often , but when it did , we tried to put it from our minds — to remember only what we were trying to do for our country . " |
| 26 | Jesus , it was awful , and the worst thing about it was , when we arrived the baby was still warm , so we tried to revive it with mouth to mouth . |
| 27 | Scott , it declared , ‘ wants a tight rein , and we hope to see it in Lord Palmerston 's hand ’ , but he should resign rather than undertake work in any other than that in which he has distinguished himself . |
| 28 | ‘ We hope to get it off the ground very shortly and it will be run in conjunction with the Women 's Hospital . ’ |
| 29 | We are in negotiations with the local authority for planning permission , and we hope to obtain it for housing on some of that land . |
| 30 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |