Example sentences of "we [verb] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rode to the fourth floor , the doors slid open , we regarded each other in silence from our chosen corners , the doors slid to , and by the time we returned to the ground floor divorce was forgotten and the marriage reconsummated . |
| 2 | Our arguments are based not only on our national interest but on the risks we perceive to the competitive position of the Community as a whole . |
| 3 | ‘ Every time we got to the dying fall of Come Back to Sorrento she wound the damn thing up again . |
| 4 | As we got to the narrow road that runs past the spot where Mr Marr used to watch the night sky , he turned and held up his hands towards the stars . |
| 5 | We got to the Great Wall in about 2 hours , passing through mountain country which is unfortunately not very beautiful at this lime of year — brown , bouldery and inhospitable . |
| 6 | Anyway , we got to the first tee and one of these immaculate guys got his driver out and hit the ball about 15 yards — and took a divot out you could put a pot plant into . |
| 7 | Before we got to the first tee I could see that Jack was already on edge — or more on edge , rather , because a hangover had already eaten into his small reserves of patience and equanimity . |
| 8 | And when we got to the other end one of the lads actually walked in and did a waltz into the school with it which the kids thought was great . |
| 9 | We went with Traffens one year , the first year in fact we went with Traffens and that was super because when we got to the other side sort of , it was then about ten o'clock he said well if you if there 's enough people want it we will transform your transform your seats into bunks and most people wanted and you were able to push the seats so one , two pairs of seats one of the seats went up and the other went down and you had four bunks |
| 10 | When we got to the halfway camp , two of us were not feeling up to the rest of the climb , and spent the night there . |
| 11 | We did all right until we got to the last bit and I got my foot caught in Otley 's pocket when he tried to bend down , he fell and flung me over his head knocking my wig skew-whiff . |
| 12 | Finlay explains : ‘ Since we round to the nearest metre it could be 914.5 metres , say , which would make it a Munro . |
| 13 | The problems arise when we shift to the first person , asking how we come to have knowledge of the world , and asking how we are justified in dismissing the possibility that reality is wholly other than we take it to be . |
| 14 | Are we to jump to the unlikely conclusion that John 's heart has at last been melted by the love of a good woman ? |
| 15 | In section 6.1 , we referred to the empirical breakdown of the original Phillips curve in the late 1960s and we pointed out that one explanation for this involves bringing inflationary expectations into the argument . |
| 16 | In discussing the theory of the firm , we referred to the differential information available to shareholders and managers . |
| 17 | We referred to the 1992 NOP survey which indicated that 13,000,000 people wished to relocate to a rural area , and that this created a powerful demand which would be difficult to satisfy even if the provision of housing was completely unconstrained . |
| 18 | When we moved to the new building we were promised vastly improved facilities , not a canteen but a carpeted restaurant , with special facilities for conferences and for private business lunches . |
| 19 | After these preliminaries , including some observations about Kensington , conducted before a rather feeble gas-fire , we moved to the low-ceilinged dining-room . |
| 20 | Only now are we returning to the age-old problem of nationalism to which my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool , West Derby ( Mr. Wareing ) referred . |
| 21 | NOT AT ALL — WE FLY TO THE ROMANIAN ORPHANAGE ON MONDAY … |
| 22 | These fears may be greater , for example , than those which we attach to the actual penalties imposed by the law — hence the use , and fear , of publicity in relation to criminal offences . |
| 23 | The importance that we attach to the further education of adults will be clearly demonstrated through this debate . |
| 24 | ‘ We object to the economic philosophy of the Treaty of Rome , ’ says Ms Lahnstein . |
| 25 | THERE was not another house to be seen from the Boggle Hole hostel on the North Yorkshire coast , as we woke to the gentle sounds of the warden reciting Buddhist mantras , and waves lapping the sands . |
| 26 | After I 've stopped chucking and coughing they restart the video and we cut to the other scene and the tall hospital chair and the little guy again with empty eyes and McDunn says his bit about Persistent Vegetative State . |
| 27 | But if the music changes , our attention is immediately alerted , and we listen to the new message with pleasure . |
| 28 | Even if we accept , as we should , that Thucydides is right about the ‘ truest cause ’ ( and in the passage last quoted he comes near to running together true cause and alleged reasons , so we should not try to separate them too sharply ) , there is still a major problem : what weight should we give to the various instances of encroachment ? |
| 29 | After 15 minutes we came to the comforting realisation that the phone had come unplugged from its socket . |
| 30 | Someone whistled them out when we came to the narrowest place , bows strung and shafts fitted , shouting to us to halt . |