Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tow rope snapped twice on the way and was getting shorter and shorter before we eventually got to Darlington . |
| 2 | By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium . |
| 3 | I used to , no I only went away on er , we only went to Rotterdam once , that 's all . |
| 4 | ( Our sample was obviously biased because we only spoke to couples who felt secure in the knowledge that the adoption had just been completed . ) |
| 5 | We just seemed to time it wrong with the weather . |
| 6 | We soon went to bed . |
| 7 | We usually went to Switzerland , Holland , Germany , Denmark , Sweden . |
| 8 | And we once went to Scotland , then breakfast in it , when Pauline was with us did n't , were n't it John ? |
| 9 | The frenzied living for ourselves which we once used to value so highly now disappears before the far more vital longing to keep company with God in faith , hope and love . |
| 10 | However , we still got to school by 9.00am . |
| 11 | Vigno , who had served with the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes , intimated that if we ever got to Corsica we would be expected to do it in under forty minutes . |
| 12 | The nearest we ever got to Twickenham was Cardiff . ’ |
| 13 | We also went to Madrid again and saw a performance by the famous travelling circus , the Circo Price , about whose clowns I wrote a poem in The Prodigal Son . |
| 14 | On two scorching days in May , we also travelled to France to shadow the Inspector on an official visit to the Framatome company 's factory at Chalon-sur-Saône where the pressure vessel was being made . |
| 15 | When we originally talked to Barry about it , we already knew that the Prime Minister would be guest that night , so we told him all about it , and he had this great idea . |
| 16 | ‘ We simply went to work like normal citizens during martial law and now it seems that 's a crime , ’ he went on , gesturing at the 20 heads of party factory cells who were gathered to discuss the future of communism in Poland . |
| 17 | We then went to assembly which lasted anything from fifteen to twenty five minutes , we would then go into our classrooms and do whatever we were told . |
| 18 | We almost came to blows . |
| 19 | We hastily put to sea in deteriorating weather conditions , the freshening easterly wind pushing up a lumpy swell for which this area is notorious . |
| 20 | Er resumed on er we actually got to number eight this morning did n't we ? |
| 21 | That ai n't , that ai n't basically it , you do n't wan na do it , that is the main thing , I mean you never been one for wanting to go , I mean even when we lived in Jersey and you ai n't got any idea how small Jersey is , Val and John used to come to us , but we never went to Val and John 's , it 's hell all mighty getting him out , if I do n't go on me own , I do n't go . |