Example sentences of "we [verb] [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 | And you 'll see we 've got an application up for Rio tonight . |
| 3 | We intend to establish an Asia-America forum where communication issues can be discussed . |
| 4 | We welcome the emphasis on safety in the North sea , but we expect a parallel prioritisation of the extremely dangerous potential accident sites onshore , and we expect to see an improvement in that situation . |
| 5 | In the near future we expect to recruit an Asia Pacific representative who will enable us to expand further in this region . |
| 6 | If the issue of a hung parliament arises in the future , we should be asked if we want to hold an ostracism . |
| 7 | ‘ We want to see an economy in which firms , large and small , have an incentive to expand by winning extra business and creating jobs … . |
| 8 | New regional chairman Neil McCrae , of Design Publications in Banbury , said : ‘ We want to see an end to the beer-and-skittles approach and arrange a series of events that will be relevant and attractive to professional communicators . |
| 9 | But if we want to adopt an approach to family life which is Christ-centred in its essence , we must ask how we are to glorify God in the relationship of parents to children and children to parents . |
| 10 | Despite the minimalist parameters for the new channel set out in the Broadcasting Act , in profound contrast to the remit of Channel Four when it began a decade ago , we want to make an issue of the new Channel . |
| 11 | ‘ We want to make an impact . |
| 12 | Whenever we need to go to and from the Institute , or even if we want to make an expedition into town , we go to the Car Office , at the hotel , where they give us deluxe transport by car , and pick us up again when we want to return . |
| 13 | We want to get an idea of what 's going on in the rain forest canopy . |
| 14 | We want to get an idea of what 's going on in the rain forest canopy . |
| 15 | This became even more apparent to us when we tried to devise an intelligence test for horses . |
| 16 | From the very beginnings of the ‘ life preparation ’ course , we tried to write an independence curriculum , and to follow the principles of ‘ normalisation ’ . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | This is because we hope to establish an informality that we feel will be suitable here , even if it might be inappropriate in degree coursework , in a PhD thesis or in a research monograph . |
| 19 | By getting in early , we hope to get an edge on the competition . ’ |
| 20 | Church is the place where we hope to find an experience to love , to be known as a parson , sharing the stories of our lives and the stories of our faith . |
| 21 | We probably presented quite an obscene picture and suddenly we seemed to have an audience . |
| 22 | We came to do an article on this place and I doubt if you 've written one word . |
| 23 | I was glad we 'd made an impression . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ? ’ |
| 26 | , have we got to have an issue date for every procedure holder then ? |
| 27 | It is perhaps at this stage of our spiritual pilgrimage that we begin to develop an appetite for reading the Bible devotionally — that is , out of love for God . |
| 28 | It is only when we begin to face an illness that we can find a cure . |
| 29 | When are we going to get an article on the positive side of skins ? |
| 30 | Only by publicising the plight of these children can we hope to bring an awareness to their government and the rest of the world . |