Example sentences of "we [vb base] [adv prt] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The goods are sent on by large waggons , and meet us at Loch Crinan ; while the ‘ Cygnet ’ or the ‘ Plover ’ puffs along right merrily , and we sit down to have a quiet look at the bonnie bits of scenery that are everywhere meeting us .
2 If we set out to design the worst possible pelvis we could end up with something like a Friesian , Charolais or Belgian Blue cow .
3 We set out to win that Cambridgeshire and we set out to win the two races at Haydock which came before today , ’ he smiled .
4 We set out to pay the last mournful duties through a road almost impassable with snow which continued to fall with a boisterous wind which blew it into immense drifts .
5 It is against a background of near hysteria that we set out to propose an alternative account of what is happening on the football terraces — an account based not on the second-hand rhetoric of myth-creating media men but on our faith in people 's ability to render their own social action intelligible and meaningful .
6 One morning we set off to find the primal mound where the world began .
7 The following day we set off to walk the Clear Creek trail which winds along the Colorado river , following a high gritstone outcrop about 1,640′ above it .
8 As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge .
9 It 'll be interesting to see if I 'm still on this basic-guitar tack when we go in to record the next Tin Machine album .
10 When we go out to visit a new client — we look at the needs of the sufferer and the carer .
11 The dogs follow the trail , so there is no problem , but it does mean that I miss seeing the sudden three metre drop that we go down to reach a frozen river .
12 We settle down to watch the next film .
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