Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | We sought to strengthen Welsh Office planning guidance in ways that encourage good design , prevent abuse and minimise the environmental impact of necessary development . |
| 7 | $850,000 — that 's half a mill more than we got to do Easy Rider . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | We got talking one evening last week , and he was asking about Carinish Court . |
| 10 | ‘ Although I tended not to write about her once we got to know each other , she has never asked me not to publish anything . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | We planned to go full belt , we planned for 1989 to be either win or retire . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | The women began to congregate and we rose to greet each other , even though we 'd met at breakfast less than an hour ago . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ If we stopped seeing each other that would solve the problem , would n't it ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ We tried to take Grand Met to a tribunal but they refused . |
| 20 | We tried to make each area a village with its own identity , a village hall and community , ’ she said . |
| 21 | As we tried to attach fresh wallpaper to the wall , we found that the damp had so undermined the structure that the wall fell down . |
| 22 | ‘ We were having fun with the children but we seemed to lose each other , ’ says Davina . |
| 23 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 24 | We seemed to suit each other in every particular . ’ |
| 25 | Two thirds of all the teenagers we interviewed agreed that sex education at school missed out too much . |
| 26 | But the worsening weather conditions as we cycled destroyed any possibility of us seeing such stunning views . |
| 27 | When we went to Portugal there was er a lass , we 'd saved some money and I said , I said do n't spend it all |
| 28 | actually no that was the night she was really pissed off because erm people were paying more attention to me than they were to her , I do n't know why , it 's because I decide that I 'm gon na be really outgoing and I really do and I was really loud and really boisterous and she 's quite resigned like that and she thought I sh bit shagged off with me and then like I was doing , there was this really good looking bloke and he was like we , we 'd given each other eyes over the bar in this pub and Lottie goes well if you do n't hurry up with him I 'm gon na go and have him , if you do n't hurry up , you know , and just like marched over I said Charlotte give me a break |
| 29 | I do n't see them very often but when we meet it 's as though we 'd seen each other yesterday . |
| 30 | When the hundred came up it weas from a very different Hick and Worcestershhire to what we 'd seen this morning . |