Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We agreed to keep an eye on her and stop Hilary jumping the gun on us . |
| 2 | This became even more apparent to us when we tried to devise an intelligence test for horses . |
| 3 | From the very beginnings of the ‘ life preparation ’ course , we tried to write an independence curriculum , and to follow the principles of ‘ normalisation ’ . |
| 4 | Is it not time that we tried to co-ordinate an effort on that basis to enable the Soviet Union to pick itself up and start taking a proper role in the world economy ? |
| 5 | We probably presented quite an obscene picture and suddenly we seemed to have an audience . |
| 6 | We came to do an article on this place and I doubt if you 've written one word . |
| 7 | I was glad we 'd made an impression . |
| 8 | This was a anti-tank and it fired a bomb and of course we put a demonstration on firing this and then we was up the Bell Lane end and right at the top by Bailey 's farm there was a row of seats , benches , along the walk there and of course the demonstration was we 'd show them imagine those seats are tanks course we never thought in the world we should ever even get near one anyway we hit one and broke it Cos they , they , I mean they was only dummies , they were n't , I mean there was no explosive just the dummy shell you know and we , we was quite pleased with ourselves being as we 'd got an audience . |
| 9 | Was it because she knew we 'd had an affair and was jealous or was it the heartbreak of coming face to face with Steve ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We needed to identify an enterprise which was more stable and yet would fit in with my experience as a farmer , ’ said Mr Singleton . |
| 11 | We decided to schedule an hour and a half each week for work on the additional assessment , and this seems to have been a successful approach . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , we did spend an evening in my apartment , ’ he said . |
| 13 | He 'd forgotten that we did have an increase . |
| 14 | I think we might get , if we did have an outing and the other institutes locally have n't got one . |
| 15 | We did have an argument that afternoon ; he came on to the set clearly hungover — he had been drinking heavily the day before , disrupting things , disturbing the atmosphere . |
| 16 | None of the six we tested included an invoice for the sample , nor have any , at the time of writing , sent one on later so it 's pretty safe to assume that the trial was free . |
| 17 | We had planned an edition of the Newsletter in June but this has not happened . |
| 18 | Even worse was the realization that we had cut an oblique through the outer ditch in our extended town defences section . |
| 19 | ‘ If they found a point they wished to query us on we had to give an instant , pressurised response , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The Americans were friendly and polite , but there was no mistaking their view that Britain had gone downhill to the point that we had become an irrelevance . |
| 21 | By lunch we had seen an all-run six for Mike Atherton . |
| 22 | It was with a certain sense of foreboding — as if we had seen an omen — that we descended from this mountain fastness to the domain of the Bugis , where we knew we had just two months left to find a prahu to carry us eastwards before the monsoon set in … |
| 23 | In those days we had to use an oil wool , which was all right after you washed it , if somewhat coarse . |
| 24 | Within two weeks , we had got an office — though still no desks and chairs , ’ he recalls . |
| 25 | ‘ At one point we thought we had got an agreement but then they said they did not want any conditions at all attached to the application . ’ |
| 26 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 27 | So we had chosen an exit at random , and I stepped over one of those high door-frames which are presumably intended to stop the sea water from sloshing into the saloon . |
| 28 | We have pleased to reserve this hearing until we had had an opportunity of acquainting ourselves with all the circumstances . ’ |
| 29 | Upon reaching Tarbes as forecast , the cloud base was around 600 to 800 feet and we had to fly an ILS approach . |
| 30 | And we had to keep an eye open for police patrols . |