Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I would totally support the move that you 're suggesting Mr Chairman , if we are asked to provide another one percent or whatever can be done , erm , I would suggest that the obvious way to get that money would be to offer them the ten thousand that we agreed to spend this morning . |
| 2 | We agreed to give more money to the French for agriculture . |
| 3 | And we agreed to do that , and we put out quite a lot of publicity . |
| 4 | Before contract 4870(A) was let we agreed to contribute 8206.14 per annum towards its cost . |
| 5 | We agreed to contact each other first if that happened in the future , before making a reply . |
| 6 | We met to discuss old times . ’ |
| 7 | We could have looked after Bartholomew 's widow and his little son but we failed to do that . ’ |
| 8 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 9 | Sometimes we got into a shoal of them and pulled them in as fast as we could handle the lines ; sometimes we failed to find any . |
| 10 | We failed to achieve initial haemostasis in one patient ( 3% ) of the epinephrine group , and none of the epinephrine plus pure alcohol group ( p>0.05 ) . |
| 11 | We sought to strengthen Welsh Office planning guidance in ways that encourage good design , prevent abuse and minimise the environmental impact of necessary development . |
| 12 | Recognising that the apparently low incidence of the sudden infant death syndrome was difficult to explain wholly in terms of currently recognised risk factors , we sought to identify other differences in infant care practices that may contribute to the lower incidence of such deaths in Bangladeshi babies . |
| 13 | Few people will dispute that that is largely a result of the legislation that we passed to reform industrial relations . |
| 14 | Oh , he 's got to get motivated cos if we 're going away we got to save some pennies up and if we commit ourselves then we 've got to save pennies up , it 's no good coming and saying to me you 're going away next week , I shall turn round and say sod you matey we 're not cos we 've got no bloody money . |
| 15 | But we got go grammatical each person has to speak . |
| 16 | We got wringing wet that week and on the Sunday after the Spurs match , I just felt ill . |
| 17 | ‘ We got to feed those horses . ’ |
| 18 | $850,000 — that 's half a mill more than we got to do Easy Rider . |
| 19 | ‘ So I auditioned for them and they auditioned for me and we got to like each other and at that stage we did n't give a shit what each other looked like , we just realised that there was talent there . |
| 20 | A senior citizen is one who was here before the pill , before television , frozen food , credit card and ballpoint pens , for us timesharing meant togetherness , not computers and a chip meant a piece of wood , hardware meant hardware and software was n't even a word , teenagers never wore slacks , we were before pantyhose , drip-dry clothes , dishwashers , clothes driers and electric blankets , we got married first and then lived together |
| 21 | It ai n't far back to the house , but it takes ages cos we got to walk slow . |
| 22 | We got to get ready |
| 23 | We got talking one evening last week , and he was asking about Carinish Court . |
| 24 | And we got payed seven and sixpence for each body we carried , you see ? |
| 25 | Oh did n't you know , I could 've told you that you know then we got to know all the all the things when it was too late but as regards my mother telling us anything brrr no . |
| 26 | We got to know all the money he had from these grants to get all these machines and all these . |
| 27 | And we got to know all the people there . |
| 28 | ‘ Although I tended not to write about her once we got to know each other , she has never asked me not to publish anything . |
| 29 | So erm the surrogate was artificially inseminated herself erm er , it took us seven months to achieve a pregnancy , and during this time we got to know each other very well |
| 30 | We planned to go full belt , we planned for 1989 to be either win or retire . |