Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [adj] [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 | We met to discuss old times . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We failed to achieve initial haemostasis in one patient ( 3% ) of the epinephrine group , and none of the epinephrine plus pure alcohol group ( p>0.05 ) . |
| 7 | We sought to strengthen Welsh Office planning guidance in ways that encourage good design , prevent abuse and minimise the environmental impact of necessary development . |
| 8 | Recognising that the apparently low incidence of the sudden infant death syndrome was difficult to explain wholly in terms of currently recognised risk factors , we sought to identify other differences in infant care practices that may contribute to the lower incidence of such deaths in Bangladeshi babies . |
| 9 | Few people will dispute that that is largely a result of the legislation that we passed to reform industrial relations . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ We got to feed those horses . ’ |
| 12 | $850,000 — that 's half a mill more than we got to do Easy Rider . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | We got talking one evening last week , and he was asking about Carinish Court . |
| 15 | ‘ Although I tended not to write about her once we got to know each other , she has never asked me not to publish anything . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | We planned to go full belt , we planned for 1989 to be either win or retire . |
| 18 | We planned to include 10 plants from each collection in the bank , enough to offset the risk of trees dying through disease or neglect , while keeping the overall area within manageable limits . |
| 19 | Erm I think it would be nice if the grammar were checked from , we promised to give high priority in responding , surely we can give priority to responding , and as a small point , I was gon na go on about the most important road which of course is Breadfield Street |
| 20 | The women began to congregate and we rose to greet each other , even though we 'd met at breakfast less than an hour ago . |
| 21 | In Chapter 3 we identified ten ‘ generic activities ’ which we found to underpin primary classroom practice regardless of the subject labels used by the teacher , and argued that these activities therefore constitute at least as important a curriculum reality — certainly for children — as terms like ‘ topic ’ or even ‘ language ’ . |
| 22 | When we stopped serving white meat and seafood to become totally vegetarian there is no doubt we lost a lot of customers but you have to stick to your guns . |
| 23 | ‘ If we stopped seeing each other that would solve the problem , would n't it ? ’ |
| 24 | Even if we stopped using all CFCs today , depletion of the ozone layer — the earth 's barrier against cancer-causing ultra violet radiation — would carry on at the same rate for the next 50 years . |
| 25 | We tried to test this hypothesis with respect to the use of three other forms of " flexible labour " , namely part-time workers , home workers and freelance workers by employers of temporary workers . |
| 26 | We tried to allay these fears by taking notes in as unobtrusive a manner as possible . |
| 27 | ‘ We tried to install modern conveniences but they 'd rather have typhoid than aqueducts . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We tried to take Grand Met to a tribunal but they refused . |
| 29 | The point was to create first-time theatre-goers , so we tried to target poorer areas on the whole . ’ |
| 30 | We tried to identify distant hills , but in the dense heat haze that now hung about us , we could only just see Whernside and Penyghent . |