Example sentences of "we [verb] [vb pp] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew , 27 , explained : ‘ We 'd gone to bed at about midnight . |
| 2 | There were other acts by then like Morecambe and Wise and they were doing to us what we 'd done to others in our time . |
| 3 | And we 've progressed to journeys in Daimlers |
| 4 | Hello there … this week we 've come to France to the town of Chalon sur Soane for one of the most dramatic one of of the most dangerous of summer sports … that 's powerboating … |
| 5 | ‘ We 've come to terms with the rule fairly quickly , ’ said Pearson . |
| 6 | However , almost as soon as we 've come to terms with its limitations , the penis decides to create a whole new set of trails and tribulations for its owner . |
| 7 | Well , rightly or wrongly we 've come to arrangements with the Liberals , not because we like the Liberals , not because we wanted to , but we , we were fed up with be being in opposition to tell you the truth . |
| 8 | so there is this mixture of er of the older element and the younger element which we 've got to sort of marry during this course . |
| 9 | We 've got to sort of create the world , and so forth , and sort of run it , and so on , and , well , try to make some kind of , of , of sort of viable proposition of it , and all the rest of it , and it just seems to me that we can get better results if we treat the , if we treat the sort of , well , for want of a better word , the local inhabitants with a certain amount of , of , of respect , and , and , and trust , and and , if we help them , and and guide them , to the point where they can become sort of independent and sort of self-governing , within the framework of the free , well , of the free , sort of , well , of the , yes , free kind of system that we enjoy ourselves . ’ |
| 10 | and I mean it used to be the fact , oh god well we 've got to sort of have dinner at twelve o'clock , we 've got to be round there by four . |
| 11 | We had come to Minya by train , but hoped to leave by boat . |
| 12 | We had come to Rangkul to film bar-headed geese for the forthcoming BBC2 series Realms of the Russian Bear . |
| 13 | However , we will have to leave this for now with a sense of pessimism , because we will find no way forward until we have got to grips with forces other than production change which , very much in interaction with production change , are constitutive of civil society and of social being . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , it must be reiterated that we can not help others in their sexual problems until we have come to terms with our own . |
| 15 | We have come to terms with the fact that most of us have subtle differences which determine the strengths and weaknesses of our make-up . |
| 16 | I presume you have access to the various briefing papers we have circulated to branches over the last 18 months or so . |