Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rode on to the moors and found Linton lying in the same place as before . |
| 2 | We rode off to the field which was bursting with beautiful yellow melons , my favourite sort . |
| 3 | Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip . |
| 4 | We passed on to the family all the information we had . |
| 5 | Then we doubled back to the barges . |
| 6 | When we got up to the place , we found it was uninhabited . |
| 7 | After stops for punctures we got up to the snow . |
| 8 | but when we got up to the top of the house I needed to go to the toilet . |
| 9 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
| 10 | I done it , I did it all neat and tidy the whole way round till we got round to the door and I says you can do it , no way am I cutting round there big chunk |
| 11 | Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off . |
| 12 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 13 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ We got off to a bad start to the season , and we 've had to work our way back gradually . |
| 15 | ‘ Look , we got off to a bad start . |
| 16 | Sarah said : ‘ Although we got off to a shaky start everyone is getting it together now . |
| 17 | and as we 're right up towards the end and now after the bank holiday we 've had lovely fine weather anyway , we got off to the main road and turned at Fibwell traffic lights onto the A twenty one and we got the to end of the dual carriageway onto the tail end of the queue as it started into the road works so I just went over the central reservation and went back down the dual carriageway to the traffic lights at |
| 18 | We got in to an unreserved seating area for 13 quid . |
| 19 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 20 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 21 | We got back to the Barracks at a quarter past seven , and then I realised something strange was going on : I got some breakfast . |
| 22 | When we got back to the platform the train was not yet in . |
| 23 | ‘ We were preparing for what we thought might be our future and so we got back to the people who 'd singled us out , and a guy called Keith Wilson , who was eventually responsible for recording and co-producing our first Fleetwood Mac album , got us down and we put an album out , which kind of came and went . |
| 24 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |
| 25 | ‘ We did n't know much about ticks , and when we got back to the BBC , we mentioned them to Michael Andrews , author of The Life that Lives on Man , who informed us that , on BCI , ticks carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever ! |
| 26 | When we got back to the village we found a lot of Germans milling around . |
| 27 | I could see he was troubled by the need to start a new piece of paper when we got back to the surgery . |
| 28 | Can we think back to the original complaints about company car allocation ? ’ |
| 29 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |
| 30 | We reported back to the school secretary , who after a long pause said , ‘ I 'm sorry , we posted that order direct to the publisher , who was offering a 50% discount . ’ |