Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv prt] to the " 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 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We got back to the Barracks at a quarter past seven , and then I realised something strange was going on : I got some breakfast . |
| 16 | When we got back to the platform the train was not yet in . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 20 | When we got back to the village we found a lot of Germans milling around . |
| 21 | I could see he was troubled by the need to start a new piece of paper when we got back to the surgery . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | The primary school was a small school on one side and then we moved over to the boys , and the the boys school was on the top floor and the girls school was on the bottom floor . |
| 24 | The house that I was actually born in is still there , number twenty five er after a while I moved across the road to a bigger house when , cos my mother had an another son and a daughter and then we moved over to the , so when we were quite a bit in the Stoke area . |
| 25 | As each tread was scraped flush and tamped , we moved up to the next ; when the surface water had run off , the step could be finished . |
| 26 | Next we moved on to the ‘ enlarger ’ on the E6000 . |
| 27 | With that behind us we moved on to the interaction of language and context which defines language function ; to the possibility of establishing overall structures of discourse related to particular discourse types ; and to conversational mechanisms ( although they might also be regarded , like cohesion , as formal devices linking smaller units ) . |
| 28 | Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow . |
| 29 | We moved on to the shallow stage , where Fielding had installed a raft of video equipment ( with two pistol-grip cameras ) , a stereo , a coffee-table space game , a fishtank , two sofas facing two low steel desks , and a fat little fridge . |
| 30 | We moved back to the strip of shingle and sat on a large baulk of timber that had been dragged up away from the water . |