Example sentences of "[coord] we [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Obviously the new stand and the increased interest in racing at Down Royal are likely to bring a new generation to the track and we wish to be there to provide a professional service , ’ a member of the bookmakers association told me . |
| 2 | ‘ L Detachment on the other hand , had set a minimum standard to which all ranks had to attain and we had to be most firm in returning to their units ( R.T.U. ) those who were unable to reach that standard . ’ |
| 3 | The net result of having so many favoured people around was that tickets for the Kirov and Bolshoi ballets were obviously rationed , and we had to be content with second league fixtures of circus and puppet shows to fill any gaps in the programme . |
| 4 | Apparently there was an exam in the hall next door to the music room and we had to be quiet . |
| 5 | ‘ Tremors of this magnitude , although rare , have been recorded in the region and we had to be comfortable that the plant could withstand the worst-case scenario . |
| 6 | The following three hours passed with surprising speed , but I had already learnt a valuable lesson : it is very tiring and hard being in general surgery ; every patient expects that the doctor knows all about them the moment they walk in the door , and we had to be empathetic , not sympathetic . |
| 7 | It was Monday when we left and we had to be out of Debenham by quarter to seven in the morning . |
| 8 | It had to be passionate — and we had to be naked . |
| 9 | Well , to keep it tidy , you see the , the creases used to come out so quickly , and we had to be , well on parade you were , you were looked at and you had to be very tidy and proper and er if you did n't do it you were told to do it and that was that . |
| 10 | and er , and we had to be so we got Ian 's one did when we pedal up and down |
| 11 | My new agent , Anne Hutton , who coincidentally was Joyce Grenfell 's agent , is a good partner and we intend to be very very happy together . |
| 12 | This year is important , and we intend to be in the forefront of promoting and supporting this EEC initiative . |
| 13 | We 've got three percussionists , some backing vocals , a lead vocal , bass guitar , two lead guitars , and we tend to be extremely threatening to the audience . |
| 14 | There is no sign of that from our point of view and we tend to be late in the cycle anyway . |
| 15 | She just said a bed , so I told her there were special beds that we are very useful in fact very necessary in cases and we tend to be short of them |
| 16 | It will house a nucleus family of gorillas in its other half and we hope to be able to start a breeding programme and also to collect funds for and publicise the Digit Fund , set up to conserve gorillas in the wild . |
| 17 | We will have the first sevens tournament in Prague in August and we hope to be able to organise sevens competitions before top soccer matches . |
| 18 | Manager Joe Kinnear confirmed last night : ‘ Yes , the negotiations are taking place and we hope to be back at Plough Lane next season . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's been laid up for a while with a problem in the starting mechanism , but a friend is now completing a repair job for me , and we hope to be up and running again soon , ’ explained Gordon , pictured with the vehicle 's log-book . |
| 20 | Thousands of fans are lining the streets , and we hope to be joining the team , on the bus , later in the programme . |
| 21 | ‘ Our Somerville Hypermarket is already trading successfully in Stockton and we hope to be able to offer the same quality of goods and standards of service to the people of Middlesbrough . ’ |
| 22 | And we hope to be able to show you a video . |
| 23 | And yet despite all this the pounds were creeping up on us and we seemed to be fighting a losing battle . |
| 24 | He 'd come round and it had been so nice , and we seemed to be so comfortable with each other , not just in bed you know , and it did n't occur to me we would n't do things together and see each other . |
| 25 | ‘ With free trade the European community is becoming a strong force and we want to be a part of it ’ , says Nereaux-Weber . |
| 26 | Yes , we 're in competition and we want to be able to say to our members do n't go to that trade union because they will put you all in one lump , go to this one because we 've got sections , because we look at our members with individual needs and please support this motion . |
| 27 | And we want to be able to provide the controllability that we achieve traditionally through centralization in the mainframe environment in what will inevitably be a distributed world . |
| 28 | So I had a meeting with Dailey to talk about the workshops and so on , so we 've bashed out the format and er , and what we think we 'd like to do , but it 's partly dependent on D T I , because it is their event , and we want to be seen to hijack it . |
| 29 | and we want to be very very careful |
| 30 | We think someone in the community is protecting the killer and we want to be sure we 've spoken to everyone |