Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , I refused Toby 's offer of a drink , and we agreed to sleep on the problem and talk again sometime during the following day . |
| 2 | I knew that it would at the very least be fun to fail again , however effortlessly , and we agreed to meet at a pub in Barnes on the following evening . |
| 3 | Erm , members who are also members of the Business Grants Panel will recall that at the December meeting we agreed to grant to a company so he may relocate into the area creating twenty seven jobs , and Friday we learnt that relocation 's to go ahead to Telford . |
| 4 | We gazed enraptured at the city of Bath from the train as it drew in to the station — it was all laid out on the slopes of Lansdown like an aerial map of a moon landscape . |
| 5 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
| 6 | The standards we bring to bear in the act of appraisal have their purchase precisely because the act , or artefact , or creation , or social institution is not fixed , but has a degree of mutability about it . |
| 7 | We had tea afterwards in a hotel in Berthing , but we failed to come to an agreement . |
| 8 | ‘ You made the condition that we dance according to the music , ’ he reminded her . |
| 9 | As we have explained earlier in the book , insulin response to the carbohydrate foods we eat varies with the speed of absorption of the carbohydrate . |
| 10 | We make do with the dole and Ellie 's going in with a friend who 's just started a café which 'll help with the food . |
| 11 | Suppose we make known to a child that we have three sticks , all of different length . |
| 12 | Data-gathering should only be undertaken if we intend to act upon the information which has been accumulated . |
| 13 | We shall be writing to you around August 1989 to check that the information that we intend to put onto the Register about you is correct . |
| 14 | We intend looking at the situation again in … |
| 15 | Against these dramatic changes , we intend to remain at the centre as an effective resource for the voluntary sector , and an important bridge between the sector and others . |
| 16 | This is because our movements slowly become stereotyped as life goes on and we tend to move in a way that feels ‘ right ’ to us . |
| 17 | We tend to refer to the World Church as something outside our particular constituency and we must n't forget that we must own the World Church . |
| 18 | Living in the country , we tend to put on a bit of a show on special occasions , and Edward 's parties used to be very sought-after . |
| 19 | In Britain ( with all too few honourable exceptions ) we tend to accept as the norm , prefab huts equipped with smelly loos , worn carpets or line , tatty curtains and torn seat cushions . |
| 20 | We tend to play at the point of the evening when the temperature drops , so I tune up just before Bryan goes on and then after three or four songs they 're all sharp , because the temperature has dropped . |
| 21 | We tend to work from the Centre in the friendly critic role . |
| 22 | There are still areas where we tend to look at the other as ‘ the resident expert ’ , or at least more expert than we consider ourself to be . |
| 23 | she said what , what agenda do you want , so I said just the same and so she put the same venue , we tend to alter at the meeting she said |
| 24 | But there 's a procedure and the procedure , our stewards recognized that the procedure was there to be effectively operated and if words can resolve a problem , and that 's how we became trained in the situation affecting all our members . |
| 25 | It is high time that we got rid of the Government who have characterised the 1980s with cardboard city and got a Government for the 1990s who will start using bricks and mortar again . |
| 26 | Happily we got rid of the fighter and the navigator set course once more by his skilful application of the astro compass readings and crossed the Channel . |
| 27 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 28 | he could n't manage to think and I 've never learnt how to manage to , that erm , the engine , so we got rid of the boat and then our son he 's got a big boat , he 's got a real speedboat , a real big one and Julian he 's got a smaller speedboat , so both of the boys go there , when we go camping we always have a good time because it 's all a family affair like , you know , always get together and erm go on , on a boat , fishing , having fresh mackerels come back and clean them up and fry them straight fresh from the sea , never tasted as fresh , fresh as , fresher fish than , than |
| 29 | Well , the first one we got kicked on the head because take the pension . |
| 30 | He come at me and he was six foot two and he come he were gon na knock hell out of me so I had to protect myself and we got fighting in the shop . |