Example sentences of "we [vb past] to do [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We agreed to do the same number of hours … ’ |
| 2 | We loved ‘ Jump ’ — we tried to do a cover version of it . |
| 3 | I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ? |
| 4 | I was allowed to give the impression that there was a helluva lot more going on behind her facade , but again that was taken out when we came to do the episode again for the version seen on Television . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Ironically by the time we came to do the first episode again , my hair had grown a little longer , so it was n't quite as eye-catching , but even so I think it 's a very unrecognised feather in Doctor Who 's cap that we created the look which launched Vidal Sassoon on his road to fame and fortune . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 7 | laughter so that by the time we came to do the five practical ev exercises you know everybody was in a very relaxed and jolly mood but I think that 's was it 's about but from the results that we were getting from the practical exercises clearly what he said had taken root you know roll key words , roll them around in your mind er try running through letters of the alphabet to match up with your key word chains and you know if if if the word is ball try roll see if you can get it to rhyme and ultimately the creme de la creme is if you can actually get the title of a song or |
| 8 | We came to do an article on this place and I doubt if you 've written one word . |
| 9 | Because we forgot to do , we forgot to do the spelling test last Friday , so we had to do it on Monday so we did n't get any spelling this week , so right now we did n't have a spelling test , this is brilliant , guess what we do now ? |
| 10 | We started to do the old trick of counting the time between the lightning flash and the thunderclap to discover how far away the eye of the storm was . |
| 11 | and during the , I was away actually I was n't there , but er , it was all burnt so I did away with that and we managed to do the bed up somehow |
| 12 | When we went , it was really funny , when we went to do the , the talk erm , afterwards when we were all sort of getting together and having a chat , they 're telling me about , they do artificial , they artificial inseminate pigs |
| 13 | In the early days , he says : ‘ We had to do a lot of nimble footwork to stay alive . ’ |
| 14 | The way the vehicle was hit , there was one person in the back so we had to do a 3-door conversion and made a 2-door car into a 3 , so it took longer . |
| 15 | We had to do a story when something unusual happened . |
| 16 | And then when we went out right , we had to do a tackle , you know a big tackle bag . |
| 17 | We had to do a three hour |
| 18 | It got so bad we had to do the full old lady bit and put up net curtains . |
| 19 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 20 | They would therefore probably be unacceptable to the majority of members , but at least we had to do the research in order to be able to give our members some facts and figures . |
| 21 | And then we wer found out instead of sitting and listening we had to do the service . |
| 22 | We intended to do a little bit of er beach work to try and get something like that but we have n't been able to , so . |
| 23 | We wanted to do a research project on the reasons for the low take-up of Health Clinics and Health Services by Asian women . |
| 24 | We were asked if we wanted to do the chassis . |
| 25 | Dra er some of us had to do a drama competition |
| 26 | Ask them if they are working-class or middle-class , and they tell you ‘ This is our fate , sister , to work , to slave , in Pakistan too some of us had to do the hard , hard work on the fields . |