Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involved a long hike over Esk Hause to Gable , and to avoid the intense mid-day heat we agreed to leave the valley at dawn . |
| 2 | ‘ We agreed to do the same number of hours … ’ |
| 3 | These included Candida , Heartbreak House , The Wild Duck and An Ideal Husband in which we agreed to play the dreadful Chilterns . |
| 4 | We fought to make the work quotas lighter and for salary rises , for a free midday meal , for women and children to get a full salary . |
| 5 | Such an approach was repudiated by Harold Macmillan , the then Prime Minister , when we applied to join the Community , as it had been by Winston Churchill before that . |
| 6 | Our Council officers , and I refer to their report , recommended that we applied to run the Scheme . |
| 7 | Authors ' reply , — W R Gransden and Susannah Eykyn say that we failed to emphasise the need for safe prescribing of aminoglycosides , and they mention two truisms applicable to all drugs . |
| 8 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
| 10 | We failed to lead the race for new products and we contributed to and suffered from heavy overcapacity . |
| 11 | ‘ To be honest , Clem , it started to go out twenty years ago when we failed to join the Common Market at the outset . |
| 12 | ‘ The danger was there for all to see , but we failed to heed the warning , ’ he groaned . |
| 13 | Team manager Ken Knott said : ‘ We failed to make the gate first so in many races we got hammered for it . ’ |
| 14 | Even in our championship winning year we failed to beat the ‘ elite ’ sides in the league and although Wilko has made a few changes to the squad we still have basically the side and thus the same problems that have cost us dearly in the most important games . |
| 15 | I have to confess that we failed to keep the secret until the day of publication : the sharp observation of sensed that ‘ something was going on ’ among his co-authors a few months before the book was published ! |
| 16 | If we failed to get the balance right , teachers would lack the necessary motivation to implement our programmes of study . |
| 17 | We failed to get the day 1 samples from eight patients and the day 8 samples from one patient . |
| 18 | We sought to test the proposition that , as a result of union hostility to temporary workers , the likelihood of their use would be inversely related to the strength of unions in the establishment . |
| 19 | I sought to score points earlier on the cavalier way in which previous Ministers dismissed the suggestions from the then Select Committee , by which we sought to limit the rate of increase in the residential care part of the Government 's budget . |
| 20 | We sought to investigate the hypothesis that episodes of spontaneous gastro-oesophageal reflux cause reflex UOS relaxations , which may be the mechanism of regurgitation rather than a deficiency of basal UOS tone . |
| 21 | Another way in which we sought to understand the nature of information structure in 5 was by saying that written discourse with a low degree of reciprocity proceeds as though answering a series of ‘ ghost ’ questions . |
| 22 | In preparing the timetables for these services we sought to meet the objectives of providing a series of connections between buses from central Livingston and trains to and from Edinburgh . |
| 23 | When we asked to see the tape on Thursday , the Beeb said it had mysteriously disappeared without authorisation . |
| 24 | We asked to have the radio back in case there was any news from his family . |
| 25 | And then we got know the go and get myself out of Marks and Spencers this weekend which for menswear particularly it was very dowdy . |
| 26 | ‘ For a start , we got posted the very next day . |
| 27 | till we got to near the den and do that and we spent er a year and a half there and all the time we were watching this house being built , because I was working at the Corporation and the number of people of the Corporation from the tea boy cadet down came up to see this , this and that , was nobody 's business , mm , without , we enjoyed it , it was quite funny really it is |
| 28 | When my mother met , we were met you know when we got married the solicitor had us in because he wanted us to make a will because see we did n't take the money that we got from mum . |
| 29 | As well as being a mate of Yeti 's at school we worked together at Whiteleys , the department store in Queensway , on Thursday evenings after school and all day Saturday — for which we got paid the grand total of 36 shillings or £1.80 today . |
| 30 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |