Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We duly wrote to the CAA , asking them to confirm or deny this practice . |
| 2 | The suggested the distinctive Volvo 460 , which we duly put to the test . |
| 3 | So , still roped from the crevasse fields , we gingerly crawled to the top . |
| 4 | His first action had been in Greece in late 1940 : ‘ We soon went to the border , and the Germans invaded from Bulgaria and Yugoslavia which they had romped through . |
| 5 | The delicious things in the foil-covered dishes had long gone , we were getting drunk nightly on sweet German wine and tins of creamed rice were starting to look attractive , when we finally awoke to a day of brilliant sunshine . |
| 6 | Last week we mistakenly referred to a contributor , Dafydd Elis Thomas , as a Plaid Cymru MP . |
| 7 | And er inevitably of course , we always fell to the secretary you see . |
| 8 | If we ever got to a siege economy he , Jim , dreaded the effect on our democracy . |
| 9 | We also went to the cinema one night to see an English ( ? or American ) film dubbed into Italian , and starring Jeremy Irons . |
| 10 | We do not always go on sporting activities , we also went to the theatre to see , ‘ A Midsummer Nights Dream , ’ by William Shakespeare . |
| 11 | We also appealed to the Government to respond to an extraordinary press conference given by the Iranian chargé d'affaires in London on the anniversary of Terry Waite 's imprisonment a few weeks ago , but no-one took much notice of that , either . |
| 12 | We also referred to the wife of Coun Ray Flowers as Maureen , her name is in fact Marian . |
| 13 | We often went to the house of Don Cattabianchi , the priest of Santa Croce , a very eccentric but equally intelligent and learned man . |
| 14 | We immediately rushed to the ladies , washed Jessica carefully in the sink and dried her under the hand dryer . |
| 15 | We even spoke to the village where Lady Baden-Powell lived . |
| 16 | We then returned to the Galilee porch , past another small chapel and into the great white-stoned nave . |
| 17 | We then went to a summer school in general relativity at Cornell University in upstate New York . |
| 18 | We then went to an exhibition of the salvaged artifacts with some very realistic looking wax work people amongst them . |
| 19 | We then came to a stream and followed this to the little village of Le Buet , returning to Chamonix by train . |
| 20 | Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement . |
| 21 | We almost went to the Hackney Empire |
| 22 | We recently objected to the licensing of new supplies from Helwick Bank , off the Gower peninsula . |
| 23 | We recently objected to the licensing of new supplies from Helwick Bank , off the Gower peninsula . |
| 24 | Well yesterday we actually went to a school and you show them how to use with a condom demonstrator and allow them to touch the condoms , and in youth clubs you allow them to do practically anything with them , as long as they 're returned , they can blow them up , or they can |
| 25 | We , we actually wrote to the manufacturers of paper plates |
| 26 | We never went to the pictures and I never had any pictures on the wall . |
| 27 | ‘ We stirred it up , yes , but we never lost any money for anybody and we never added to the unemployment figures . ’ |
| 28 | But we never played to a tape , either . |
| 29 | ‘ We never submitted to the Italians : we went into exile because we supported the Sanusi ’ was not a thoroughgoing rejection of government . |