Example sentences of "we [verb] [to-vb] 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | We have to find the next point of attack and be there first . ’ |
| 10 | He acknowledges that ‘ to make it fly , we have to get the next generation of telephones sorted out ’ and says that the European Telecommunications Standards Institution is working on the standard telephonic layouts , displays and icon conventions needed to ensure that users wo n't be too bewildered by the options offered by their neighbour 's phone . |
| 11 | ‘ We have to cross the first of the cordilleras according to the map you showed me . ’ |
| 12 | We might speculate that we need to teach the next generation the principles of establishing the Lady of the Hearth , the ways in which an environment can be made a happy , welcoming place . |
| 13 | In doing this , we need to make the first block of colours an odd number of rows in length , 1 , 3 , 5 , 7 , 9 and so on . |
| 14 | We need to find the next depot today , Oates wrote . |