Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] agree [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Jones 's response was ‘ No way am I going to agree with that . ’ |
| 2 | Now , I do agree with that , that if you phone up and somebody phones you and they just talk to you and then for about five minutes later , the person at the other end of the phone says , ‘ I 'm in a meeting ’ , and you just thought ‘ Well , why on earth did n't you say that in the first place ? ’ , so there is another side to that one . |
| 3 | Although I do agree with some of his points — the need for more public courses and more emphasis put on rules of etiquette — I was somewhat alarmed to read that in the interests of quicker play , we high-handicappers were being relegated to a boring , 9-hole course until we improve our game enough to join ‘ the big boys on the big-boys ’ course ’ . |
| 4 | I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian . |
| 5 | In 1989 in a television piece , Daley Thompson picked Ben 's run as one of the six greatest performances of all time , and I have to agree with that . |
| 6 | Oh I have to agree with that I 've been watching |
| 7 | Gav , Our beloved administrator , wants to put a team in late , I have agreed to this as a special concession unless he starts winning : - ) ) ) . |
| 8 | Air France , which had agreed in mid-1990 to merge with its main French international rival UTA and the domestic airline Air Inter , faced a new challenge on March 3 , when the French government announced that it would redistribute 16 of the airline 's routes to its competitors , in an effort to reduce the airline 's 97 per cent share of the domestic aviation market . |
| 9 | If , on the other hand , it never occurred to the defendant that the victim was young or mentally abnormal , and he was not aware therefore that he was in a situation of potential risk , he should not be liable for rape providing that he took reasonable steps to ascertain that she did agree to vaginal penetration , for in such a case his conduct is reasonable in the light of the facts as he perceived them to be . |
| 10 | She had to agree with that . |
| 11 | She had agreed to that and named her fee . |
| 12 | She had agreed to this dinner to try to find out the truth , and she must n't allow the attraction she felt for him to cloud that . |
| 13 | and I do n't know if we want to agree to that straightaway in which case we get on to the next item . |
| 14 | It should be is what we 've agreed in one of our suggestions , that unless you 're talking about something different . |
| 15 | ‘ And I thought that , because we had agreed to that , our working relationship had improved . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Yegor Gaidar , First Deputy Prime Minister , said : ‘ I am convinced that so far we have agreed on effective co-operation in order to resolve the problem by joint effort . |
| 17 | Moreover , we have agreed in full to the pay review body 's recommendations on how to fund the doctors ' new contracts . |
| 18 | When the heads of government of the five ASEAN countries held their first meeting for eight years in February 1976 in Indo-China they failed to agree on regional security and the communiqué of the meeting did not mention neutralisation . |
| 19 | They seem to agree with Grady that ‘ Many issues of sex bias can be addressed by making research in psychology more scientific … |
| 20 | While the major political parties are at each other 's throats over most areas of policy , they seem to agree on one idea to aid innovation — probably it is from an independent body . |
| 21 | Santer reported that they had agreed on four essential points : ( i ) a single market with a joint central bank and currency ; ( ii ) respect for human rights and the rights of national minorities ; ( iii ) defence , and ( iv ) foreign policy . |
| 22 | Whereas earlier they had agreed with each other , now they did n't . |
| 23 | If they had agreed with British Airways , I could understand that they might have left the issue alone , but they might have come to different conclusions and taken different action . |
| 24 | With the failure of these discussions on economic union the Nordic states were left with the limited form of cooperation to which they had agreed in 1946 , and also with Uniscan , a loose , consultative structure they had entered into , albeit reluctantly , with Britain under the latter 's urging , but one which would involve little more than a multilateral attempt at coordinating economic policies . |
| 25 | They have agreed to that . |
| 26 | Once his appearance has been changed to identify him with the group ( it may be dyeing his hair shocking pink or wearing a big badge ) , then not only will other people assume that he has agreed to all the ideas and implications of the movement but he himself will be more likely to feel this to be true , even to throw all doubt to the four winds without further investigation . |
| 27 | The subject is under strong social pressure to go along with the hypnotist ; he has agreed in good faith to be hypnotised , after all , and is determined to carry out the hypnotist 's suggestions . |
| 28 | They left after less than two hours of talks to report back to Saddam Hussein on the face of it having agreed to all allied demands . |
| 29 | A Swapo representative , Mr Harmut Ruppel , announced on Wednesday that it had agreed to this , but acknowledged that this was in exchange for an executive president . |
| 30 | The situation had too many of the elements of a farce about it , and he wondered briefly why he had agreed to such a scheme . |