Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] to the " 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 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We got back to the Barracks at a quarter past seven , and then I realised something strange was going on : I got some breakfast . |
| 24 | When we got back to the platform the train was not yet in . |
| 25 | ‘ We were preparing for what we thought might be our future and so we got back to the people who 'd singled us out , and a guy called Keith Wilson , who was eventually responsible for recording and co-producing our first Fleetwood Mac album , got us down and we put an album out , which kind of came and went . |
| 26 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |
| 27 | ‘ We did n't know much about ticks , and when we got back to the BBC , we mentioned them to Michael Andrews , author of The Life that Lives on Man , who informed us that , on BCI , ticks carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever ! |
| 28 | When we got back to the village we found a lot of Germans milling around . |
| 29 | I could see he was troubled by the need to start a new piece of paper when we got back to the surgery . |
| 30 | We reported back to the school secretary , who after a long pause said , ‘ I 'm sorry , we posted that order direct to the publisher , who was offering a 50% discount . ’ |