Example sentences of "we [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What are we up to date , a hundred and four ?
2 This leads us on to acceptance sampling .
3 This leads us on to OBSERVATION : so that quite a lot of time should be given over to looking .
4 Which brings us on to item nine which is er employment action .
5 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 .
6 And sometimes dad used to take us down to Serenity , to see the ships .
7 Bedelia said as she bustled us off to bed .
8 Jim became team captain in succession to Ian in October 1977 and led us up to Division One in 1978–79 as 2nd Division champions , then to the top of the Football League on 29 September 1979 , scoring as spectacular a goal in our 4–1 trouncing of Ipswich Town as any football follower could ever hope to witness .
9 It only remained then , in this tight little half-hour programme , for David Attenborough to bring us up to date on the mountain gorillas of Rwanda — they are mainly alive and moderately well but not thanks to poachers — and for Mr Soper to have a fleeting swipe at the conservation intentions of the government , and it was all over .
10 This , however , is not the thinking — and it may be presumptuous — that moved BBC2 to hit us between the frontal lobes with Jonathan Miller 's states of mind ( 20 February ) , a series that will march on for 15 weeks in the cause of bringing us up to date with what is happening in psychology .
11 For those who like their recordings to use the latest technology , ‘ Masterworks Digital Masters DDD ’ brings us up to date with , in welcome re-issues of his best Cleveland recordings .
12 Jamila butted in to add details and keep us up to date .
13 They have no relevance to the story , but do bring us up to date and give the all-important illusion of gravitas which accompanies everything Branagh does .
14 Undoubtedly , the Under-Secretary of State will bring us up to date on that .
15 Zoe will continue to monitor the progress of both our psoriasis sufferers over the coming months and keep us up to date with how they 're doing .
16 Erm the other part of course of quality control is making sure that partners and staff er to speak on quality er er it is ess essential that we attend the necessary courses to keep us up to date , it is essential er that the er that we get our C P units , it is essential that staff are not withdrawn from er training courses er when there 's a pressing client there er so that we should er ensure that everybody gets the necessary training to achieve this objective .
17 ‘ In that case it would be better if you brought us up to date with what 's been happening first . ’
18 We are also grateful to those younger members of the congregation , teachers of maths and the sciences , who keep us up to date with these fast-changing subjects .
19 for an insulation company and we were on a Government funding and money ran out and it took us up to Christmas really and after Christmas we were out of work for four months
20 Latin motets alongside modern crowd-pullers — which brings us back to hymn-singing , where we began .
21 ‘ It puts us back to square one , of course . ’
22 Tuesday 27th we camped at East Twinbrook , about five miles from where the waterway ends and where the Chewonki van would be waiting to take us back to camp .
23 He stayed with Palace , totted up 180 league appearances and tried all he knew to get us back to Division Two .
24 Richard 's taking us back to school Wednesday .
25 The reference to experience leads us back to Chapter 6 , for the beliefs of all religions arise out of experience and are misinterpreted at a very fundamental level by outsiders who see them as merely forms of words imposed upon people .
26 Which brings us back to Labour and the unions .
27 I see , thought Isambard , that all human life moves in inescapable circles , and brings us back to moment after moment we thought past .
28 Oh , the violet , leviathan heartblood , the twinkling amethyst draws us back to scarlet .
29 And that would get us back to castor oil and the secret police ; Lenin 's Kulaks in the cattle trains , Devil 's Island , English prisons .
30 And do n't worry : Masha will bring us back to earth tonight .
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