Example sentences of "we [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rode to the fourth floor , the doors slid open , we regarded each other in silence from our chosen corners , the doors slid to , and by the time we returned to the ground floor divorce was forgotten and the marriage reconsummated . |
| 2 | ‘ We sold to the old Soviet Union but dealt only with the central import agency . |
| 3 | On the first day we got to the 17th , the Road Hole of course , which was a par-5 in those days , and he hit a great tee-shot . |
| 4 | My nerves were really jangling when we got to the 17th , the Road Hole . |
| 5 | When we got to the 17th , the last par-5 , he hit his third shot about three feet behind the pin , but he turned to me and said , ‘ You know , Pete , I 'm so damned nervous I ca n't see the hole . |
| 6 | ‘ Every time we got to the dying fall of Come Back to Sorrento she wound the damn thing up again . |
| 7 | As we got to the narrow road that runs past the spot where Mr Marr used to watch the night sky , he turned and held up his hands towards the stars . |
| 8 | We got to the Great Wall in about 2 hours , passing through mountain country which is unfortunately not very beautiful at this lime of year — brown , bouldery and inhospitable . |
| 9 | Anyway , we got to the first tee and one of these immaculate guys got his driver out and hit the ball about 15 yards — and took a divot out you could put a pot plant into . |
| 10 | Before we got to the first tee I could see that Jack was already on edge — or more on edge , rather , because a hangover had already eaten into his small reserves of patience and equanimity . |
| 11 | We went with Traffens one year , the first year in fact we went with Traffens and that was super because when we got to the other side sort of , it was then about ten o'clock he said well if you if there 's enough people want it we will transform your transform your seats into bunks and most people wanted and you were able to push the seats so one , two pairs of seats one of the seats went up and the other went down and you had four bunks |
| 12 | And when we got to the other end one of the lads actually walked in and did a waltz into the school with it which the kids thought was great . |
| 13 | When we got to the halfway camp , two of us were not feeling up to the rest of the climb , and spent the night there . |
| 14 | On we went , par after par , until we got to the 16th and I thought , this must be it . |
| 15 | We got to the 18th and there 's Greg Norman and Jack Nicklaus , who took five hours to get round ; we 'd done it in less than four , had a bit of lunch and more practice in that time ! |
| 16 | We did all right until we got to the last bit and I got my foot caught in Otley 's pocket when he tried to bend down , he fell and flung me over his head knocking my wig skew-whiff . |
| 17 | In section 6.1 , we referred to the empirical breakdown of the original Phillips curve in the late 1960s and we pointed out that one explanation for this involves bringing inflationary expectations into the argument . |
| 18 | In discussing the theory of the firm , we referred to the differential information available to shareholders and managers . |
| 19 | We referred to the 1992 NOP survey which indicated that 13,000,000 people wished to relocate to a rural area , and that this created a powerful demand which would be difficult to satisfy even if the provision of housing was completely unconstrained . |
| 20 | We referred to the forthcoming Welsh Affairs Committee inquiry . |
| 21 | When we moved to the new building we were promised vastly improved facilities , not a canteen but a carpeted restaurant , with special facilities for conferences and for private business lunches . |
| 22 | After these preliminaries , including some observations about Kensington , conducted before a rather feeble gas-fire , we moved to the low-ceilinged dining-room . |
| 23 | The truck took us to where the Imlil-Toubkal road branched off at the market town of Asni and there we swapped to the normal ‘ shared taxis ’ into Marrakech for a merry night at the Hotel Ali — famous for its buffet dinners and the starting point for many adventures . |
| 24 | THERE was not another house to be seen from the Boggle Hole hostel on the North Yorkshire coast , as we woke to the gentle sounds of the warden reciting Buddhist mantras , and waves lapping the sands . |
| 25 | Everything seemed to be plain sailing now as we came to the 17th . |
| 26 | After 15 minutes we came to the comforting realisation that the phone had come unplugged from its socket . |
| 27 | Someone whistled them out when we came to the narrowest place , bows strung and shafts fitted , shouting to us to halt . |
| 28 | There is nothing new in that ; we came to the same conclusion earlier when studying the field of a line charge . |
| 29 | Eventually we came to the Old Mill area where there were no railings at the waterside , making the mill pond quite a frightening place for small children . |
| 30 | But when we came to the Old Town , the Marshal and Sapt moved nearer to my horse , and I could see that they were afraid for me . |