Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 2 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |
| 3 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
| 4 | If we 'd left it to the day we 'd have been sunk ! |
| 5 | Repacking the camera gear , we decided to abandon it to the elements in orange survival bags , and bracing ourselves , we retreated down the steep and slippery slope . |
| 6 | We decided to show it to a booking agent who books cabaret , so I spoke to Harry Dawson who did a lot of , cabaret work and we auditioned it for him . |
| 7 | I mean I think there 's the same problem with children in a sense , I mean , you you talking about confronting them with the realities of the world and I suppose I perhaps if we if we did expose ourselves to the erm to the true meaning of what 's going on in the world , we could n't handle it psychologically without stopping it , without doing something about it . |
| 8 | We did make it to a boozer afterwards , though , and we all agreed it was worth making a note of for future reference . |
| 9 | When at 10.45am we had resigned ourselves to a day of swimming and sunbathing a farmer pulled up and asked , in German , if we were waiting for him . |
| 10 | No longer were we ‘ engagé volontaires ’ , who could be treated as nothings — we had proved ourselves to the instructors on our course , and henceforth they would treat us as legionnaires and expect us to behave as such . |
| 11 | And up in the cellar , after the shooting , we had to make them to a brace like that , a cockerel and a hen . |
| 12 | Nineteen of us had made it to the end . |