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We and had
`` We had to do something ''.
We haven't had anything to eat all day ''.
`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.
We had been walking quite briskly, for despite your being so small and me so tall, your stride in those days could easily match mine.
We had stopped before a shop window to assess its autumnal display, when you suddenly turned to me, looking up from beneath one of your wrong hats, and with your nervous `` ahem ''!!
We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.
We found that a charitable society in New York had a long case-history of the two ; ;
He said, `` We had a good time tonight, didn't we, Earl ''??
We had walked it many times and shivered, figuring what a fish barrel it had been for the French.
We had assumed that at least this local legislative body had nothing to hide, and, therefore, had no objections to making the deliberations of its committees and the city commissions available to the public.
We had a couple of schools in this country, the principal one being on the Marshall Field estate out in Lloyd's Neck.
`` We just sit quiet and wait '', Prevot had said.
We came down off the wall as if he had toppled all of us, and we crouched behind it.
We both had hangovers.
We still had that much in common.
`` We found some owls had built a nest in the chimney, milord, but I promise you you'll never have trouble of that sort again ''.
We also continued to run a series of ads featuring endorsement of Rhode Island by industrialists who had recently established new plants here.
We have had sound grounding in the principles of the mailed-fist-in-velvet-glove school of diplomacy.
We had merely been discovered by the pool sharks.
We unanimously agreed that Prokofieff had won his rights as a world citizen to the first ranks of Twentieth-Century Composers.
We have seen good new products shelved because no one had the assignment to develop such facts and plans -- and management couldn't make up its mind.

We and hoped
We hoped that its practitioners and teachers might be put on some sort of reserve list and called back for refresher courses each year or so.
We had looked forward to what we hoped to be our first informal meeting with a number of Moscow's artists.
We hoped that in the future life, family and tribal relations would be resumed.
" Speaking at the May 2009 annual conference of the American Psychiatric Association, Carpenter said, " We had hoped to get rid of schizoaffective as a diagnostic category because we don't think it's valid and we don't think it's reliable.
We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot.
We just hoped the engineer was gonna be good enough to record us, and that was it, really.
... We hoped the next headline would not challenge our entire roster of poetic ideas.
:" We were glad to own fox terriers with the hunting color, and we hoped to use these four puppies successfully in breeding to establish a hunting fox terrier breed ( jagdfoxterrier-stamm ).
Noting that it would be hard for the party to a win a seat in the three-seat constituency, he said " We had hoped that the most recent electoral boundary changes would result in a fourth seat for Kildare South but this did not happen ".
We decided to put all Ken's songs on the album, and hoped it worked out the right way.
We are a great people living in a great place, and we can form our own nation with no difficulty ,” he told a local newspaper in 2005, saying the party had a few confirmed candidates for the 2005 provincial election, but hoped for a total of 50.
We want to see if they've done what we hoped they'd do to bring greater balance to OMB decision-making.
" We are naturally disappointed as we had hoped in our submission to make the chiefs see the self-serving interests behind this Bill, that had nothing at all to do with genuine reconciliation for the nation ," she said.
However, according to Rice, " When it proved logistically and financially impossible to do it and Disney took an interest, we changed gears .... We felt we'd been commissioned to write it as an oratorio, and still hoped it would be performed as such in Israel.

We and report
`` We won't know the full amount until we get a full report '', Wagner said.
Around 4 July, Poisson declared Galois ' work " incomprehensible ", declaring that " argument is neither sufficiently clear nor sufficiently developed to allow us to judge its rigor "; however, the rejection report ends on an encouraging note: " We would then suggest that the author should publish the whole of his work in order to form a definitive opinion.
When a general said in a meeting " We should throw in a nuke once in a while to keep the other side guessing ," Dyson became alarmed and obtained permission to write an objective report discussing the pros and cons of using such weapons from a purely military point of view.
" Only a few days later, Allan Kozinn wrote an investigative report citing that Leon Klinghoffer's daughters, Lisa and Ilsa, had " expressed their disapproval " of the opera in a statement saying " We are outraged at the exploitation of our parents and the coldblooded murder of our father as the centerpiece of a production that appears to us to be anti-Semitic.
Officials of the Presbyterian Church USA report: " We acknowledge the role of scriptural authority in the Presbyterian Church, but Presbyterians generally do not believe in biblical inerrancy.
* Heindel, Max, How Shall We Know Christ at His Coming ?, May 1913 ( stenographic report of a lecture, Los Angeles ), ISBN 0-911274-64-2 www
* Club of Rome report, quote: " We must also keep in mind the presence of social delays -- the delays necessary to allow society to absorb or to prepare for a change.
The ensuing report, created by Trent Lott and Christopher Dodd, issued in May 2003, cautioned that " It is too soon to determine the extent to which the goals of Maine ’ s and Arizona ’ s public financing programs are being met ... We are not making any recommendations in this report.
We deem particularly offensive ,” the report said, “ such utterances as her statement that the regents ‘ killed, brutalized ( and ) murdered ’ the People ’ s Park demonstrators, and her repeated characterizations of the police as ‘ pigs .’”
We have two forms of balace sheet the report form and the account form.
We had to report to the Elk Grove Masonic Building where we were given our family numbers, No. 2076.
The town of Hazard, as well as Perry County, is named after U. S. Navy Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, known for his victory report during the War of 1812 stating, " We have met the enemy and they are ours.
In September 2010, Plantronics surveyed over 1, 800 team knowledge workers and published " How We Work: Communication Trends for Business Professionals " This report found that 90 % of U. S. respondents work remotely at least some of the time.
We instruct the Council for TRIPS to find an expeditious solution to this problem and to report to the General Council before the end of 2002.
Contrary to what the report claimed, shortly after the accident and until his death Webb maintained that " We saw no flagman or fusees, we heard no torpedoes.
We do not even have hearsay accounts of conversations she had with anyone else that have a specific, scientific content, let alone claiming to report her ideas.
We are not against any Afghan or foreign journalist, and the reporters can be assured of their safety in our town, and can report on life in this country any way they wish.
Freud called free association ' this fundamental technical rule of analysis ... We instruct the patient to put himself into a state of quiet, unreflecting self-observation, and to report to us whatever internal observations he is able to make ' - taking care not to ' exclude any of them, whether on the ground that it is too disagreeable or too indiscreet to say, or that it is too unimportant or irrelevant, or that it is nonsensical and need not be said '.
According to its 2010 accreditation report, " We believe the ARTS grants this in a context of sympathetic, doctrinally homogenous schools.
The Waitangi Tribunal, in its 1996 report, Kaupapa Tuatahi, observed: " We are unaware of the evidence that the hapū agreed to this arrangement.
The Committee's report concluded: " We agree with the Commissioner that this element of Mr Donovan's complaint should be upheld, and we reiterate that the inclusion of material of a party political nature is not permissible in publications funded from parliamentary allowances.
We are dumbfounded at his report.
Speaking on GMTV on 30 January, Dyke himself questioned the conclusions of the report, saying " We were shocked it was so black and white [...] We knew mistakes had been made but we didn't believe they were only by us.

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