Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We worked hard to avoid war … |
| 2 | We would n't have been passing the church except that we called in to collect Maggie Sullivan and it 's a shortcut from her place to the Feathers . ’ |
| 3 | THE following morning we trooped up to watch Kneeton Park 's continued , currently clarty , climb up the Hambleton Combination , third division . |
| 4 | We decided not to do teas , you may remember . |
| 5 | We tarried awhile to watch Messrs Anderson and Rowe perform doughty deeds with caber and shot on a pleasant summers day . |
| 6 | Most of the climb was through bush and we almost reached the top , but the outcrops were a rope job and we knew when to admit defeat ! |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , we 've had such a marvellous day , Uncle Albert took us to the Marine Museum and then we went on to collect sea-shells ourselves , he knew where to go for them , we found hundreds ; and we had a lobster picnic . |
| 8 | We went in to see Jennie before we left . |
| 9 | They used to have exhibitions of their pupils ’ work ; and we went there to help Lottie and showed people in , and we 'd put little pinnies on to start with . |
| 10 | Then , after the party we went along to see Man at The Lyceum . |
| 11 | We looked down to see goldfinches and snow buntings feasting on fallen seeds in the heaped litter of salt marsh plants : sea lavender and sea purslane . |
| 12 | I think we did well to buy bread |
| 13 | All of us have at one time or another contributed to the Great Bores of Today , with our moans of the other night when we sat down to watch television and ‘ there was nothing on ’ . |