Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The five themes that we 've adopted in building a better will build on the progress we made in meeting the challenge and making the change . |
| 2 | Besides this , we asked about contacting the police for help . |
| 3 | She flagrantly refused to do so , and I 'm not sufficiently a fool , knowing Arabs better than most , that Saddam took advantage of this knowing perfectly well we reneged on helping the Palestine Arabs , deliberately invaded Kuwait so that because he thought he could get away with it . |
| 4 | We succeeded in negotiating a further period of tenure , until April 1996 , at a rent substantially lower than we have previously paid . |
| 5 | ‘ The moments we shared in making the nude paintings were best of all , and put a smile on my face . |
| 6 | Gnome passage , where we headed after leaving the cave entrance , was one of the highlights of the cave for me . |
| 7 | Whether or not horses understand landing procedure ( they do n't smoke or have to cope with seat-belts ) , it occurred to me that we had taken a couple of bites at the cherry on our approach — I could only guess how near we came to dismantling the gateway to India , for there are no windows in those vehicles . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ Things were looking very bad because the lowest estimate we received for putting the club right after the fire was £180,000 . |
| 9 | I explained this ( J. Milroy , 1982b : 43 ) in relation to the simplification pattern in short /a/ ( see chapter 4.5 for the findings of this study ) , which we measured by using a three-way analysis of variance . |
| 10 | We began by considering the concept of a ‘ mental lexicon ’ and we described the evolution of the Logogen Model of word recognition . |
| 11 | We began by studying the Bible and trying to relate what it said to our daily lives and the problems of the community . |
| 12 | I went to my house in Madrid with Nicolas Roeg , the lighting cameraman , and we worked on rewriting the script . |
| 13 | We talked about leaving a letter with a solicitor . ’ |
| 14 | We talked about shopping a great deal . |
| 15 | We worked out there were several ways we could compose a visual picture , before we settled on using the mirror technique . |
| 16 | We started by sending the Minister to a Desert Island , with just 8 records and 2 books ( come 19th May , we could have spared a few more ) . |
| 17 | ‘ I said last year that we had to try and continue the success we started by winning the FA Cup , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 18 | We started by observing the global conflict which exists today between socialism and capitalism . |
| 19 | We decided before starting the study that the primary response criterion would be mean change from baseline in Leicester score ( the most comprehensive single assessment ) at 16 weeks . |
| 20 | We thought of having a party on that day to watch what happens to one another . |
| 21 | , cos we thought about getting a . |
| 22 | To try and generate some more interest in aviation we looked into starting a project that was relevant to the area and after a lot of research we came up with a Flying Flea . |
| 23 | Coming in at all , so that 's , that is n't easy , but it , eh were it works it 's really good I mean for example we , we d o up the Poll Tax enforcement policy , erm and again it was where the Cou I mean if the Council had followed the legislation on Poll Tax collection , it 's you know , erm and it did n't want to do that , and so again well , it 's , well it 's related to this legislation bit , but we looked at , we looked at how we could get round that legal procedure and we looked at developing a more sensitive policy and we had to do that with other departments . |
| 24 | In order to cut costs in the design process , we looked at reducing the amount of design time required for each issue . |
| 25 | Majors spend more on one ad than we did on recording an album . |
| 26 | Well going back to the boards point about take over theatre as we did on making a loss . |
| 27 | We aimed at studying the histology of the duodenal mucosa in the presence or absence of chronic NSAID intake , H pylori , and duodenal ulcers . |
| 28 | By measuring H pylori antibody titres in serum samples collected and stored between 1969 and 1990 , we aimed at describing the pattern of acquisition of H pylori infection over a 21 year period in an adult population and thereby to determine the explanation for the higher prevalence of H pylori antibody with increasing age found in Western society . |
| 29 | We compromised on borrowing the Land Rover for positioning , followed by walking as far as their enthusiasm took them . |
| 30 | We ended up doing a ‘ Rodney ’ and ‘ Charles ’ routine about the Gibraltar apes . ’ |