Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] to [art] " 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 | ‘ They hit the bar and we were a bit lucky there but we deserved a break because we fought right to the death on a very heavy pitch . ’ |
| 4 | We clung helplessly to the upturned optimist until rescued by the instructor with a motor boat . |
| 5 | Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip . |
| 6 | We passed on to the family all the information we had . |
| 7 | On our way to the fishing grounds off Iceland we passed close to the Faroes . |
| 8 | The misty peaks of Rhum were draped in heavy cloud and shot with rainbows as we passed close to the curious Sgurr of Eigg . |
| 9 | We slanted across to the far bank and ran before the wind , well out of the main current . |
| 10 | Then we doubled back to the barges . |
| 11 | When we got up to the place , we found it was uninhabited . |
| 12 | After stops for punctures we got up to the snow . |
| 13 | but when we got up to the top of the house I needed to go to the toilet . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 17 | Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off . |
| 18 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 19 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 20 | We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank . |
| 21 | I think the last time you were here we were actually in the bottom half of the table but shot up to about seventh and since then once we got close to the people with games in hand and catching on the extra games we 've come up into the top three sometimes . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ We got off to a bad start to the season , and we 've had to work our way back gradually . |
| 23 | ‘ Look , we got off to a bad start . |
| 24 | Sarah said : ‘ Although we got off to a shaky start everyone is getting it together now . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | We got in to an unreserved seating area for 13 quid . |
| 27 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We got back to the Barracks at a quarter past seven , and then I realised something strange was going on : I got some breakfast . |
| 30 | When we got back to the platform the train was not yet in . |