Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip . |
| 2 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ We got off to a bad start to the season , and we 've had to work our way back gradually . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , we got off to a bad start . |
| 5 | Sarah said : ‘ Although we got off to a shaky start everyone is getting it together now . |
| 6 | and as we 're right up towards the end and now after the bank holiday we 've had lovely fine weather anyway , we got off to the main road and turned at Fibwell traffic lights onto the A twenty one and we got the to end of the dual carriageway onto the tail end of the queue as it started into the road works so I just went over the central reservation and went back down the dual carriageway to the traffic lights at |
| 7 | We got in to an unreserved seating area for 13 quid . |
| 8 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 9 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 10 | As each tread was scraped flush and tamped , we moved up to the next ; when the surface water had run off , the step could be finished . |
| 11 | We moved on to the shallow stage , where Fielding had installed a raft of video equipment ( with two pistol-grip cameras ) , a stereo , a coffee-table space game , a fishtank , two sofas facing two low steel desks , and a fat little fridge . |
| 12 | Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow . |
| 13 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 14 | On Wednesday David Howell , the Energy Secretary , was forced to withdraw the threat of pit closures and on Thursday we woke up to a dreadful press accusing us of ignominious surrender . |
| 15 | I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’ |
| 16 | We turned back to the sprawling baggage , so profuse and various it seemed organic , mushrooming in the rich compost of arrivals and departures . |
| 17 | One day at 6.00 am we walked up to a disused school in our community and stood outside praying . |
| 18 | Having met him at the station on 3 December , a Tuesday , we walked back to the Old parsonage , in St Giles 's ( now a hotel ) , where Michael Cullis had pleasant lodgings . |
| 19 | However we pressed on to the increasing discomfort of our training lads . |
| 20 | We fell back to a horizontal position , kissing passionately . |
| 21 | On arrival at Llandrindod we crossed over to the other platform to board the train which had arrived from Swansea — there being only nine minutes between arrival and departure — only to be told that we would have to go back on to the unit we had travelled up on . |
| 22 | We crossed back to the other bank , Mandeville striding away from the barge , shouting orders at Southgate . |
| 23 | We sang along to a rousing tune while particularly enthusiastic members of the congregation waved their arms about like stalks of corn blowing in the wind . |
| 24 | We went over to the other bed , the higher and wider one . |
| 25 | Having got over the bad luck at the 6th we went on to a 69 . |
| 26 | Well , we really got on well together , and when the bell rang for the first round we went on to the first tee and an official is there to check out which clubs and what type of ball Butch is using . |
| 27 | and erm I actually received twenty seven and twopence a week , to start with it was paid weekly but subsequently erm we went on to the monthly erm payments and er but that 's what I had and er I used to pay my sister fifteen shillings a week for , for lodgings . |
| 28 | We went up to the second floor and knocked at Manisha 's flat . |
| 29 | We went up to the top floor and were told to sleep in a room full of grey metal bunks and steel lockers , and to sleep fully clothed to avoid the lice . |
| 30 | We went off to a little restaurant she knew near Leicester Square . |