Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [det] " 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 | We agreed to contact each other first if that happened in the future , before making a reply . |
| 5 | We could have looked after Bartholomew 's widow and his little son but we failed to do that . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ We got to feed those horses . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We got to know all the money he had from these grants to get all these machines and all these . |
| 13 | And we got to know all the people there . |
| 14 | ‘ Although I tended not to write about her once we got to know each other , she has never asked me not to publish anything . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | You will recall that the first task we set ourselves , in default of any clear instructions in the matter , was to decide what exactly we were doing , and that to this end we proposed to examine some of the various concepts involved . |
| 17 | The women began to congregate and we rose to greet each other , even though we 'd met at breakfast less than an hour ago . |
| 18 | A happy side-effect of electronic coursework is that we found marking less of a chore : indeed in small doses it has been interesting . |
| 19 | ‘ If we stopped seeing each other that would solve the problem , would n't it ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I think it 's time we stopped poisoning half the land and concreting in the rest . ’ |
| 21 | Even if we stopped using all CFCs today , depletion of the ozone layer — the earth 's barrier against cancer-causing ultra violet radiation — would carry on at the same rate for the next 50 years . |
| 22 | Then we tried to link all of this with the strategies the teacher was actually observed to use in her interactions with children elsewhere in the room . |
| 23 | We tried to sing that last Christmas , but . |
| 24 | We tried to do that in R E , do you remember ? |
| 25 | We tried to do this in Hills ( 1990 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ We tried to recover all the pieces that we could and still hope to recover more parts , ’ Kermit said . |
| 27 | We tried to test this hypothesis with respect to the use of three other forms of " flexible labour " , namely part-time workers , home workers and freelance workers by employers of temporary workers . |
| 28 | We tried to allay these fears by taking notes in as unobtrusive a manner as possible . |
| 29 | And it we tried to open all three together sometimes you know . |
| 30 | Last year was the centenary of the Borough Charters , so on the one hand I was trying to restore the traditions of the thing — erm we tried to reintroduce some of the pomp and ceremonial — and then on the other hand I felt that the mayoralty often did n't seem terribly relevant to people of my generation , and so I tried to involve a lot of young people in various activities and the offshoot of that has been a Youth Advisory Committee which I 've set up , which at the moment is in the process of trying to negotiate with the County Council for some premises to try and increase the sort of Youth Club type evening provision in the town . |