Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] a " 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 | In 1987–88 this was not the case and we failed to predict a dramatic upturn in School of Business F T E s , principally as a consequence of students electing to take tourism modules as an extra-field choice . |
| 5 | We failed to identify a source of bleeding in 40 patients . |
| 6 | It was here that we sought to capture a record of the least-contacted tribal peoples while there was still time . |
| 7 | But at other times , if we sought to impose a level of rates against strong market opposition . |
| 8 | Mr Jimmy Airlie , secretary of the Ford union side , said : ‘ We expected to get a favourable majority . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We got to see a man . ’ |
| 11 | And I said to our Joe we got to get a another lock for that door . |
| 12 | ‘ We got offered a lot of European dates after Reading , ’ says Gordon , ‘ but we backed off to rehearse and then went to America . |
| 13 | ‘ We got to know a lot of interesting things about your way of life and your education system — and we found many similar things . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And er we did a couple of weeks erm teaching in schools and we helped run a erm a lunching club for old people . |
| 16 | As well as this , in August we helped orchestrate a series of practical workshops at the London Print Workshop . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | starting a little brown smoulder mark it were like that all the through the electric blanket of course all the through the the sheets all through the sheets and blankets and it had just coming through the top counterpane we used have a |
| 20 | At nearby Newgate Bank we disembarked to inspect a gallows ' stone . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Then we stopped to have a cigarette . |
| 23 | Well we tried to order a manual did n't we ? |
| 24 | We loved ‘ Jump ’ — we tried to do a cover version of it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We now had to grapple with problems of ethics , with questions of morality and of personal philosophy , as we tried to draw a simple police code of practice together to frame those new deviancies created in the 1960s by the Acts of Parliament relating to drug use . |
| 27 | ‘ He was one of the top men we tried to keep a close eye on — when we could . |
| 28 | Early one morning , we tried to find a clerk in a department that sprawls across a full floor . |
| 29 | On our way home we tried to find a Mothers Day card for Mark to send to his Mum , but I think all the Dalseattie shops must have the same supplier and sell those ghastly pink-ish cards with really crass ditties inside ugh . |
| 30 | Clearly if we tried to apply a legal definition of ownership the asset belongs to Fred , however , unless the business is set up as a company in most countries the law does not recognize the separation of the business assets from those of the owner . |