Example sentences of "and we [vb base] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we cling to history as a series of salon pictures , conversation pieces whose participants we can easily reimagine back into life , when all the time it 's more like a multi-media collage , with paint applied by decorator 's roller rather than camel-hair brush . |
| 2 | And we go to agility with her . |
| 3 | And we tend to maths numbers . |
| 4 | But after a while straight pieces of knitting cease to be satisfying and we progress to shaping , which speeds up the making-up process and also saves on materials . |
| 5 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , having appealed to Leavis , we received from him almost by return a literary essay , and we set to work to write our own pieces . |
| 7 | Having collected the mail and picked up the following day 's patrol tasks , the vehicles arrive and we return to Rosemount for lunch . |
| 8 | I am happy to say the inspections were successful and we hope to steam these locomotives in public before too long . |
| 9 | ‘ BPX led the change in the North Sea and we continue to benchmark against the competition which is now hard on our heels . |
| 10 | ‘ Blast you , Kokos ! ’ she hisses , and we fade to black . |