Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For budgeting purposes we agreed to take a figure of 20 sows a hectare ( 8/acre ) or 11ha ( 27.5 acres ) in total . |
| 2 | We agreed to have a summit meeting in Bromley High Street after school , where we 'd make a decision on what to do . |
| 3 | I I think I must come back with the fact that I have n't denied we made made a mistake . |
| 4 | We failed to identify a source of bleeding in 40 patients . |
| 5 | It was here that we sought to capture a record of the least-contacted tribal peoples while there was still time . |
| 6 | But at other times , if we sought to impose a level of rates against strong market opposition . |
| 7 | We expected to get a variety of other interesting specimens in the highlands of Arussi , where Ivor Buxton had discovered the mountain nyala in 1910 ; this large buck , resembling a greater kudu , was known only from the highlands of Arussi and Bale . |
| 8 | We got to see a man . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We got offered a lot of European dates after Reading , ’ says Gordon , ‘ but we backed off to rehearse and then went to America . |
| 10 | ‘ We got to know a lot of interesting things about your way of life and your education system — and we found many similar things . ’ |
| 11 | We were on the ground floor of the flats , and we got to know a lot of them as neighbours as well as some of them as clients . |
| 12 | As a shareware library with monthly deadlines for our advertorial copy we need a reliable Communications package , unfortunately a custom program we used developed a bug and two hours before our copy deadline we were unable to send the data via our modem . |
| 13 | As a shareware library with monthly deadlines for our advertorial copy we need a reliable Communications package , unfortunately a custom program we used developed a bug and two hours before our copy deadline we were unable to send the data via our modem . |
| 14 | Our target route — the splendid Tudor Rose , which takes a stunning line up of the best section of the cliff above Guillemot Ledge — remained unfulfilled , as we found handling a clutch of fine HVS and VS routes fully occupied our energies , leaving us totally sated . |
| 15 | Then we stopped to have a cigarette . |
| 16 | Well we tried to order a manual did n't we ? |
| 17 | We loved ‘ Jump ’ — we tried to do a cover version of it . |
| 18 | If we tried to describe a theory of legislation sufficiently uncontroversial to command close to universal assent among our lawyers and judges , we would be limited to something like this : if the words of a statute admit of only one meaning , no matter in what context they are uttered , and if we have no reason to doubt that this is the meaning understood by all the legislators who voted for or against the statute or abstained , and the statute so understood achieves no results not intended by all those who voted for it and would be so understood by all the members of the public to whom it is addressed , and could not be thought by any sensible person To violate any of the substantive or procedural constraints of the Constitution , or otherwise offend any widely held view about fairness or efficiency in legislation , then the propositions contained in that statute , understood in that way , are part of the community 's law . |
| 19 | Early one morning , we tried to find a clerk in a department that sprawls across a full floor . |
| 20 | She said we did a an experiment and we tried to perm a girl 's hair with Head and Shoulders |
| 21 | We tried to get a balance between a Test side and a one day side from the squad . |
| 22 | We tried to get a rubber that rubs , rubs ink out but you ca n't get one very well can you ? |
| 23 | As we prepared to interview a council official about the decision to allow the festival to go ahead on an airfield near Stratford-upon-Avon , an angry resident appeared and launched a verbal onslaught . |
| 24 | Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies . |
| 25 | Which put me off gambling for good , because whilst we won every day , it seemed , we 'd lost a lot of money at the end of the year . |
| 26 | Even before we 'd exchanged a word , I knew that she would let me do anything I wanted to her . |
| 27 | Jennifer , of Dewsbury , Yorks , said : ‘ As soon as we divorced we both realised we 'd made a mistake . ’ |
| 28 | I knew we 'd made a mistake as soon as we 'd … we 'd … ’ |
| 29 | Once Bernie and I dragged right across town to a pub in the back of beyond in North London because we 'd seen a gig advertised there featuring a band called The Teenage Rebels . |
| 30 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |