Example sentences of "we [vb past] [to-vb] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | We tried to create an exciting environment for people ’ . |
| 5 | This became even more apparent to us when we tried to devise an intelligence test for horses . |
| 6 | From the very beginnings of the ‘ life preparation ’ course , we tried to write an independence curriculum , and to follow the principles of ‘ normalisation ’ . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | But beyond Sohag we seemed to enter an even darker reach of the river . |
| 9 | We probably presented quite an obscene picture and suddenly we seemed to have an audience . |
| 10 | We came to do an article on this place and I doubt if you 've written one word . |
| 11 | Another day we returned to find an empty space where my harmonium should have been . |
| 12 | ‘ We needed to identify an enterprise which was more stable and yet would fit in with my experience as a farmer , ’ said Mr Singleton . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ We decided to contact an American lawyer . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ If they found a point they wished to query us on we had to give an instant , pressurised response , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ One was we had to take an international outlook rather than being a purely British company . |
| 19 | In those days we had to use an oil wool , which was all right after you washed it , if somewhat coarse . |
| 20 | Upon reaching Tarbes as forecast , the cloud base was around 600 to 800 feet and we had to fly an ILS approach . |
| 21 | And we had to keep an eye open for police patrols . |
| 22 | , this er fellow that was for in Conway told me we had to keep an extra erm for Douglas fir he says . |
| 23 | Th this type of thing until the , after the three months we had to pass an exam . |
| 24 | He says we had to climb an imaginary ladder . |
| 25 | I was a passenger in a microlight and just after taking off the engine spluttered and we had to make an emergency landing . |
| 26 | I pointed out the way we had gone about it in 1974 , when we wished to add an item to the ICAO agenda and were able to agree upon a concerted approach by the major European delegations towards achieving our aims . |
| 27 | What would happen when we wanted to cancel an entry ? |
| 28 | We wanted to have an urgent word with him on an important matter . ’ |
| 29 | Why do you think we wanted to have an overdraft Wal ? |
| 30 | We wanted to make an early start for home after a caravan holiday in Cornwall but I was so worried that we 'd oversleep , so my husband said he had an idea . |