Example sentences of "we [vb past] [to-vb] [art] " 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 take no further action . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ We agreed to do the same number of hours … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We agreed to keep an eye on her and stop Hilary jumping the gun on us . |
| 6 | These included Candida , Heartbreak House , The Wild Duck and An Ideal Husband in which we agreed to play the dreadful Chilterns . |
| 7 | We agreed to have a summit meeting in Bromley High Street after school , where we 'd make a decision on what to do . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Our Council officers , and I refer to their report , recommended that we applied to run the Scheme . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
| 14 | We failed to lead the race for new products and we contributed to and suffered from heavy overcapacity . |
| 15 | ‘ To be honest , Clem , it started to go out twenty years ago when we failed to join the Common Market at the outset . |
| 16 | ‘ The danger was there for all to see , but we failed to heed the warning , ’ he groaned . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Team manager Ken Knott said : ‘ We failed to make the gate first so in many races we got hammered for it . ’ |
| 19 | We failed to identify a source of bleeding in 40 patients . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | If we failed to get the balance right , teachers would lack the necessary motivation to implement our programmes of study . |
| 23 | We failed to get the day 1 samples from eight patients and the day 8 samples from one patient . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was here that we sought to capture a record of the least-contacted tribal peoples while there was still time . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But at other times , if we sought to impose a level of rates against strong market opposition . |
| 30 | 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 . |