Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However we agreed to visit Cedars together in a few days ' time . |
| 2 | So there the subject rested for a while , except that we agreed to purchase coffins at some future date to put by in readiness for the inevitable , but owing to the usual pressures of day-to-day living we never got around to it . |
| 3 | PS I confirm our telephone conversation today when we agreed to make payment to you within 21 days of the last drop . |
| 4 | It thus ensures that wrongdoers do not profit from their wrongdoings , and is justified because if we failed to punish lawbreakers it would be unfair to the law-abiding . |
| 5 | Indeed I am rather coming round to the view that the trouble last year was not that we failed to produce as good policies as our opponents but that we failed to produce policies for the issues the electorate was most interested in . |
| 6 | We failed to offer proposals that could have been equally appealing but more constructive — such as more control over lifetime contributions to pension funds , greater stakes in enterprises through measures like employee share plans , more extensive rights as employees . |
| 7 | However , it is important for him and the Opposition Front-Bench team to understand that when we replaced the old supplementary benefit scheme we sought to target help on the people who needed it most . |
| 8 | The road became narrower , the drops either side more precipitous — and we sought to engage Abu in conversation , more to dilute his fanatical sense of destination than to practise our halting Indonesian . |
| 9 | Just when we expected to see Cordoba produce an extra gear as Walter Swinburn got to work with the whip , the son of El Gran Senor capitulated and it was Balla Cove who produced extra reserves to hold the late thrust of Rock City . |
| 10 | It was the day before we expected to see Treasure Island . |
| 11 | We reached Chelalo on the Arussi mountains in the afternoon of 5 October ; it was here that we expected to find nyala . |
| 12 | We expected to have security problems with Mrs Thatcher , but in fact they were nothing compared with those posed by the other guest on that show — Barry Manilow . |
| 13 | We expected to gain insight into what these transitions mean to the individuals undergoing them so as to find ways of offering them understanding and support . |
| 14 | ‘ When we asked to see test results so we could recommend the products with some confidence we were told that the data was confidential , between Colin Isaacs and Loblaws . ’ |
| 15 | We asked Denys Zacharopoulos , one of the three assistant curators , under the leadership of Jan Hoet , of Documenta IX , for further enlightenment about the 1992 version of this seminal exhibition , being held at Kassel from 13 June to 20 September . |
| 16 | Okay , so , where we got to last week then was looking at the analysis and modification of er work behaviour . |
| 17 | What with all the activity associated with moving house , it was two weeks before we got to see Arthur 's famous castle . |
| 18 | First we got to see Joey B. Where is he ? ’ |
| 19 | We went out to lunch to er Tesco 's we got to pick Christopher up from school and we went just for lunch time , that was quite nice |
| 20 | my travel agent fixed the tickets — i guess he had some problems as we got standing tickets ( ie no seats ) … i saw a poster or something mentioning that tickets for newcastles home games vs us and scum will only be available by mail requests ( sort of a lottery i guess ) with only 2 tickets pr request . |
| 21 | We 've danced on stage with Pete and Michaela and we got to meet Aswad . ’ |
| 22 | Right , we 're talking about such a , all we got to look T I T the sine of X , and it 's plus times plus times plus , so it 's . |
| 23 | obviously we got to have fears , because there 's something to be , they 're the largest nation in fucking Europe so everybody 's got to fear them , because they co-hearse all the other into being part of their group and that sort of stuff got ta be |
| 24 | ‘ Nana — we got to help Hyacinth ! ’ |
| 25 | My contract ran until two weeks before my son Adam s Barmitzvah and we planned to spend Christmas in Massachusetts then drive down to New Haven to begin re-rehearsing for our American opening at the Long Wharf Theatre . |
| 26 | We planned to cut ice bollards and ice threads to save our precious supply of abseil gear . |
| 27 | So that at that point erm , we ceased to receive evacuees and Felixstowe went to Redditch , Felixstowe Grammar School . |
| 28 | It is high time we ceased to allow people to talk about rugby union as a minority sport — even a post-World Cup modest club match on Rugby Special rated two million viewers . |
| 29 | Of course we helped to reduce road casualties by removing toads from the road for marking . |
| 30 | ‘ After we defeated defending champions Castlerock in the semi-finals , he thumped a table with his two All-Ireland Senior Cup medals before the final saying … ‘ this is what it is all about ’ … and it got us going again against Warrenpoint . ’ |