Example sentences of "we [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We sold to the old Soviet Union but dealt only with the central import agency . |
| 2 | ‘ Every time we got to the dying fall of Come Back to Sorrento she wound the damn thing up again . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In discussing the theory of the firm , we referred to the differential information available to shareholders and managers . |
| 10 | We referred to the forthcoming Welsh Affairs Committee inquiry . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After these preliminaries , including some observations about Kensington , conducted before a rather feeble gas-fire , we moved to the low-ceilinged dining-room . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | After 15 minutes we came to the comforting realisation that the phone had come unplugged from its socket . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When we came to the German trenches there was nothing to see . |
| 19 | We look like we came to the wrong party — like we brought our adopted son to his friend 's birthday , and called at the wrong address . |
| 20 | We had a car , an English Rover , so we drove to the southern part of the city . |
| 21 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 22 | Many people believe that standards in our use of English would rise dramatically if we returned to the formal teaching of grammar which was normal practice in most classrooms before 1960 . |
| 23 | We returned to the safe house for dinner with most of our theories shattered . |
| 24 | The frontier post spotted him from the photos we rushed to the western frontier . |
| 25 | Erm , er we talked to the departmental transportation departments er attended and it is I think fairly widely open to members of the county council so that , these issues can be pursued as and when they arise or choose to comes along . |
| 26 | We listened to the laughing and talking in the hall , as the guests were welcomed by their host and his housekeeper . |
| 27 | At home we listened to the official news , which we knew was full of propaganda . |
| 28 | Of course , there will be the process of introducing the council tax as there would be if we listened to the Labour party and introduced its tax . |
| 29 | We listened to the hon. Member for Lancashire , West ( Mr. Hind ) — we often must do so — and he defended the council tax with all the conviction with which he defended the poll tax just a few months ago . |
| 30 | Much closer to home for me , we listened to the hon. Member for Oxford , East ( Mr. Smith ) , who represents and lives in the Blackbird Leys part of Oxford . |