Example sentences of "we [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel fidgets round the room like it 's a hotel we got to leave by ten . |
| 2 | This time we planned to take in two other Munros on the northern ridge of the corrie , Carn Liath and Stob Poite Coire Ardair , before dropping down to the window and back up on to Creag Meagaidh 's vast plateau . |
| 3 | We planned to come at four o'clock . |
| 4 | We arranged to meet at twelve-thirty under the clock . |
| 5 | We began to talk about four o'clock and the morning was most delightful , the sun shining along the Terrace and the air so balmy . |
| 6 | Earlier this year we began to meet with three other West Belfast groups with the view of jointly organising a conference on these issues . |
| 7 | We began to work on two hander pieces — she took the pictures , I wrote the words . |
| 8 | ‘ I took extra care about everything and , after the last time , we decided to wait until three months before telling everyone . ’ |
| 9 | Watching the Turks spray it around the park against our implacable foes , the English recently , the mystery deepened as to how we managed to knock in five goals against them at Lansdowne Road . |
| 10 | We managed to get in two dramatic runs under the Aiguille Vert and a great run down the Italian Bowl before lunch , finishing off the day by skiing the famous and steep Pas de Chevre . |
| 11 | In the evening we went to eat in one of the eating houses near the station . |
| 12 | For each of them we aimed to speak to one of their children and if possible one of their grandchildren too , in order to have more than one perspective from inside each family . |
| 13 | It was eighty-five miles to Orange , a distance we hoped to cover in three days ' marching . |
| 14 | We had to go on three trains . |
| 15 | And we had to go from one pub to the other to look for him . |
| 16 | Years ago we stored water in a big cream pot but that came to grief during a hard frost and we had to resort on one occasion to a possing tub — that is a fluted tub made from galvanized metal which was common to most households before washing machines — which , of course , had to be used for soaking the dirty clothes on washing day . |
| 17 | There 's an old saying do n't get mad , get even , and the only way we 're gon na get even with this government and we have to learn a lesson from history , is to do to this government what unfortunately we had to do in nineteen seventy nine and if any government deserve to be taken on , then it 's this Tory government . |
| 18 | We had to withdraw from two major contracts . |
| 19 | ‘ Because of the injury situation we had to throw in four new lads and they fitted in quickly . |
| 20 | T. D. After being on morning duty [ 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. ] , we had to parade at 2.20 p.m. at Sefton Park . |
| 21 | We had to fight for twelve months . |