Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We agreed to keep an eye on her and stop Hilary jumping the gun on us . |
| 2 | We said on twenty seventh July that we planned to pay an unchanged dividend for the full year . |
| 3 | However , we helped secure an enhanced sea bed survey , the results of which could help put an end to this dumping in future . |
| 4 | Most members of the RUC we encountered used an interpretative process which contains a set of typifications for distinguishing between ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ Catholics , as for ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ people generally . |
| 5 | We tried to manage an unruptured tubal pregnancy with high initial beta-human chorionic gonadotropin ( -hCG ) levels by prolonged prostaglandin ( PG ) F2 application via LEC . |
| 6 | We tried to create an exciting environment for people ’ . |
| 7 | This became even more apparent to us when we tried to devise an intelligence test for horses . |
| 8 | From the very beginnings of the ‘ life preparation ’ course , we tried to write an independence curriculum , and to follow the principles of ‘ normalisation ’ . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | But beyond Sohag we seemed to enter an even darker reach of the river . |
| 11 | We probably presented quite an obscene picture and suddenly we seemed to have an audience . |
| 12 | We came to do an article on this place and I doubt if you 've written one word . |
| 13 | I was glad we 'd made an impression . |
| 14 | The national spotlight was on us — and it appeared to most of us that we 'd missed an open goal . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Ooh great a , a lot of politic this is what I say they were , when I think of them I can remember them , even as , as a young girl and you know remember them they were all very , very er they were only just the average working woman er I do n't think , we had got , there again we 'd got an extremely good , they 'd got an extremely good secretary , a well-educated woman erm and er the whole family was involved and it was one of their family was went on to be an M P . |
| 17 | When the offer first came up we 'd had an even lower-budget series go out on a national US cable network but , apart from that critically-lauded effort , no TV experience . |
| 18 | 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 ? ’ |
| 19 | Another day we returned to find an empty space where my harmonium should have been . |
| 20 | ‘ We needed to identify an enterprise which was more stable and yet would fit in with my experience as a farmer , ’ said Mr Singleton . |
| 21 | We decided to schedule an hour and a half each week for work on the additional assessment , and this seems to have been a successful approach . |
| 22 | ‘ We decided to contact an American lawyer . |
| 23 | This system was not tolerated in pilot experiments , and we decided to perfuse an open segment of oesophagus and make appropriate corrections for contaminating saliva and refluxed gastric fluid . |
| 24 | I do n't think even in our wildest dreams we managed to spend an extra five million in the first few weeks of this council , I remember a couple of million going into schools and few hundred thousand for voluntary organizations , and er , and old people 's homes . |
| 25 | While we did observe an active and enthusiastic first-year readers ' club in action , and a considerable number of children using the library during lunch hours , there were indications of a conservative element at work . |
| 26 | Yet we did detect an easing off in harassment of Republicans and of itinerants . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , we did spend an evening in my apartment , ’ he said . |
| 28 | We did get an occasional glimpse of the sun towards the end of the month , and it was so welcome for even our ambulance station had been put out of action , and it was not easy to get patients moved before the next batch came . |
| 29 | As far as other union members ' attitude towards us , I think that we did get an enormous amount of support from like-minded colleagues in organizing around issues of race and sexuality . |
| 30 | If w if we we did get an |