Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We only went there to see what British Waterways were doing , ’ said Ian . |
| 2 | On seeing them waddle down the street , like a mass of quivering flesh , we usually ran upstairs to warn Mum of the advancing horde . |
| 3 | And being successful in that , we then went forward to seek its application . |
| 4 | We then went outside to practise singing it . |
| 5 | ‘ We never came here to steal anything , and that 's the God 's honest truth . ’ |
| 6 | When the war ended the OSS was busted up : they hung on to a few units — there was a whole alphabet soup of SI , SSU , X-2 , CIG , for a time — but most of us just went home to build a brave new world with law books and Shakespeare . |