Example sentences of "we [vb base] [adv prt] to " in BNC.

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1 We eat up to ten times the amount of salt we actually need ; on average about two teaspoonfuls a day , half of which is added by manufacturers during food processing .
2 Now , if we round off to three decimal places , we find that F can be written as the unit rank matrix , proportional to unc unc If we now revert to A and postmultiply by unc unc Thus , 1 = 25 .
3 He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience .
4 We 're putting some money away for e expenses , we 've taken up the option to purchase , we 've put in a planning application for change of use , we investigated possible grant applications , we 're investigating future expenditure and income generation , and then we report back to this committee once .
5 True intimacy begins when we cry out to God in the words of Psalm 27 : ‘ My heart says of you , ‘ Seek his face ! ’
6 We want back to basics .
7 ‘ Now I need your answer before we fly back to Hong Kong tonight .
8 We head back to the apartment only when the day folds in around us for good .
9 We walk over to a dusty square where over a hundred women , migrants from the countryside and recently closed state mines , are digging and paving with picks and shovels .
10 As we walk out to our cars , Peter shuffles in beside me , telling me about his children .
11 We walk down to the shore in the warm drizzling rain and wait at the quayside .
12 " I suggest we walk down to Moorlake , then , " Mr. Crowther said , " and have a look round . "
13 He laughs again , and as the light is fading we walk back to the village , past small boys running hurdy-gurdies ; he teaching me plant names for which I can find no translation .
14 We walk back to Dmitry and Kier 's flat .
15 ‘ I 'd just like you to understand the problems we have … we do the best we can , ’ sighs Soliz as we walk back to the bus stop .
16 When we walk back to his flat , the sun has melted the last greyness from the sky .
17 From the history of man in general we focus down to the story of a single individual , Abraham , and his descendants .
18 We taxi on to the runway , midday on the murder mile , to fly to the capital of the New United States Of Europe .
19 We cut down to the riverbank before we reached them and walked along the water 's edge out of sight of the buildings above .
20 Then we cut back to the newsreader .
21 I most grateful to the minister for giving way and it 's good to see the government er at last acknowledging the justice of the amendments to do exactly what we 're proposing now that we put in to most of the committees like the building societies c c c b b bill a and like the banking bill when they were discussing the nineteen eighties but Lord Justice Bingham also recommended er and I quote , the determination of the correct relationship between client , auditor and supervisor raises an issue of policy more appropriate for decision making by parliament than by the bank and the accounting profession .
22 We receive up to a hundred and forty week
23 A familiar disjunction : while we hold on to personal musical favourites dating back over twenty-five years because we still enjoy listening to them , the music which brings on the fiercest nostalgia is often a terrible , loathsome noise with which we think we have nothing in common .
24 If we hold on to the suffering of those nearest to us , we may not be strong enough to offer any real help by lifting them from whatever is affecting them .
25 Psychologists believe that we hold on to certain stories because they enable us to make sense of an otherwise confusing world — that we learn through stories and see our way through to maturity with their help .
26 Christian joy is found when we hold on to God 's hand and when we learn that fabulous certainty with which we can step out into the uncertainties of the coming day .
27 Then a bridle which is on the horse 's head and a bit , in the horse 's mouth and reins attached to the bit which we hold on to .
28 But our ‘ yes ’ is necessary , the ‘ yes ’ of faith which is ‘ the empty hand that we hold out to Christ and that he fills with himself , and the impulse and strength to stretch out the hand comes from the Spirit . ’
29 We give up to a 70% discount on some related products like paper , ’ Ms Knowles said .
30 It 's the spiel we give out to the tourists if they happen to capture one of us when they 're wandering round the grounds .
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