Example sentences of "we [vb base] [prep] [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've learnt from our past mistakes in approaching Thurrock and Nottingham and we 'll use the experience we gain from Southwell to the full at Telford to build something on a far grander scale , ’ Muddle says confidently . |
| 2 | ‘ We hope to Witness to the Good News of Jesus ’ love for us all , and the hope and joy of his resurrection . |
| 3 | The People 's Hotel is on a grand scale , and we drive in style to the Foreign Language Institute , where our course takes place , every day , in company with Comrade Gao ( Ministry of Education ) , Comrade Yu ( our local interpreter ) and Comrade Wu ( a lady in her forties who is accompanying us on the rest of our tour ) . |
| 4 | Before we rush into changes to the homicide law , we must ensure that such changes do not do more harm than good . |
| 5 | Lord Rix farce actor Brian Rix has accused them of not fighting back , saying : ‘ We rush like lemmings to the water 's edge , devising fatuous so-called policies … which are feeble attempts to cover up the fact that we have been defecated on from a great height . ’ |
| 6 | By the time we arrive on tip-toe to the spot , whatever it was has either gone or revealed itself to be a log . |
| 7 | But when we move from Einhard to the Christian ideal of rule in general , it is at once necessary to point out an important fact about Christianity : that its book , the Bible , consists of two Testaments , which are very different from each other in ethic . |
| 8 | But when it comes to saying , ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Sun the evaporation/solar-flares analogy is being advanced , not in order to justify an answer to a question of fact that arises within the language-game , but in order to justify an extension of the language-game we have on Earth to the Sun . |