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

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1 He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience .
2 We head back to the apartment only when the day folds in around us for good .
3 We walk down to the shore in the warm drizzling rain and wait at the quayside .
4 He laughs again , and as the light is fading we walk back to the village , past small boys running hurdy-gurdies ; he teaching me plant names for which I can find no translation .
5 ‘ I 'd just like you to understand the problems we have … we do the best we can , ’ sighs Soliz as we walk back to the bus stop .
6 From the history of man in general we focus down to the story of a single individual , Abraham , and his descendants .
7 We taxi on to the runway , midday on the murder mile , to fly to the capital of the New United States Of Europe .
8 We cut down to the riverbank before we reached them and walked along the water 's edge out of sight of the buildings above .
9 Then we cut back to the newsreader .
10 If we hold on to the suffering of those nearest to us , we may not be strong enough to offer any real help by lifting them from whatever is affecting them .
11 When we look back to the present , it will be perfectly clear that in many sectors of the economy , the recovery has indeed started .
12 Having just been reading a bright-red leaflet we glance up to a plain , white wall — at which instant we see a green patch .
13 About 10.00 , dusk , we motor over to the drive-in which is showing a triple bill of horror movies .
14 He placed his arm round my waist , which gave me a pleasurable feeling I 'd never experienced , and then we set off to the picture house .
15 Then we drive down to the drive-in restaurant where we eat lots of crap including a double order of onion rings .
16 There again , rather than wake them up , and the they do a runner , we get on to the phone , tell the police that there 's a a juvenile or what looks like to be a juvenile , sleeping in in part of the flats but where it 's a a stairwell , an ou outhouse , erm even under the stairs , then they 'll come along and check it out .
17 We had just such a function there last Saturday , where the consensus was that making a living was getting a bit easier , that the economy was startling to move forward , and that , by the time we get round to the season of the darling buds of May , the prospects for Her Majesty 's Government might well be ’ perfick , just perfick ’ .
18 They need a touch of resin he decides , but as he has none it will have to wait until we get back to the camp .
19 By the time we get back to the tent Stig is limping badly and when Odd-Knut looks he finds he is bleeding profusely .
20 We get back to the subject of dating .
21 Then we get back to the taxi , and there you are waving your weaponry , and kidnapping us .
22 There are n't many OS/2 v 2 compliant packages available at the time of writing , which is where we get back to the battle , I suppose .
23 In the summer we can go out and draw from direct observation , but in winter it is too cold , but when we get back to the classroom we can draw from memory the tree we have just examined and put down on paper as much as we have learned and remembered about the tree , its form , its colour , and its texture .
24 When we get back to the house , Marie gives me the key to the door and I unlock it and let her go in first .
25 We get down to the nitty-gritty there really .
26 Right so if we get down to the hospital this afternoon
27 and they 're all pretty valid , and I can assure you that , if we allow up to a maximum of five hundred and we check out what they 're doing with it , and we put all the right s it 's not going to be money wasted .
28 On a beat , that is with the sheet pulled in tightly but as we turn on to a ridge you 'll see that we have to ease the sheet out so that the sail stays at the same angle for the wind .
29 Not needing any more we turn back to the shore .
30 After the introduction of Nicholas ( 3190 – 220 ) we turn back to the carpenter , of whom , too , we are instantly given details making him a perfect fabliau character : he is married , newly and ill-matchedly so , and thus perhaps green and inexperienced as well as old and jealous : The fabliau formulae themselves produce an unjust stereotyping in this case , as the carpenter 's jealousy , although referred to again by Alison ( 3294 ) , is nowhere evident in his words or actions in the tale .
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