Example sentences of "we [vb past] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | ‘ We agreed to do the same number of hours … ’ |
3 | These included Candida , Heartbreak House , The Wild Duck and An Ideal Husband in which we agreed to play the dreadful Chilterns . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Our Council officers , and I refer to their report , recommended that we applied to run the Scheme . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
9 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
10 | We failed to lead the race for new products and we contributed to and suffered from heavy overcapacity . |
11 | ‘ To be honest , Clem , it started to go out twenty years ago when we failed to join the Common Market at the outset . |
12 | ‘ The danger was there for all to see , but we failed to heed the warning , ’ he groaned . |
13 | Team manager Ken Knott said : ‘ We failed to make the gate first so in many races we got hammered for it . ’ |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 ! |
16 | If we failed to get the balance right , teachers would lack the necessary motivation to implement our programmes of study . |
17 | We failed to get the day 1 samples from eight patients and the day 8 samples from one patient . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | When we asked to see the tape on Thursday , the Beeb said it had mysteriously disappeared without authorisation . |
24 | We asked to have the radio back in case there was any news from his family . |
25 | till we got to near the den and do that and we spent er a year and a half there and all the time we were watching this house being built , because I was working at the Corporation and the number of people of the Corporation from the tea boy cadet down came up to see this , this and that , was nobody 's business , mm , without , we enjoyed it , it was quite funny really it is |
26 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |
27 | On this first morning we planned to practise the ‘ reaching ’ — sailing at an angle of 90 degrees to the wind . |
28 | In the process we helped to reshape the whole of ICI 's redundancy policy and the terms under which people left the company . |
29 | We changed to meet the demands of the '70s and '80s and now we are into the '90s with many more changes to come ; I am confident that there is a very bright future for our Company which is blessed with a lot of very good professional people who we must be careful not to undervalue . |
30 | and after a mile we stopped to lower the seat . |