Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Luckily , however , I managed to hold on and we got on to her bed , which I seem to remember was covered with a plastic sheet . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | right then we got on to talking about him going into the gents and what he does , he do n't shut the door and such |
| 34 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
| 35 | Now we got on to this the other day does anybody remember that ? |
| 36 | IBM is very touchy on the issue of morale : last week in New York when we got around to asking Bill Filip what the mood was around the joint , the spin doctors converged and shuffled him off . |
| 37 | Besides , he was sure we 'd quickly make up the time once we got out to sea . |
| 38 | We did n't know until we got out to woods . |
| 39 | He said : ‘ We got off to a bad start to the season , and we 've had to work our way back gradually . |
| 40 | ‘ Look , we got off to a bad start . |
| 41 | Sarah said : ‘ Although we got off to a shaky start everyone is getting it together now . |
| 42 | 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 |
| 43 | We got in to an unreserved seating area for 13 quid . |
| 44 | Yeah we got in to er Roseo and . |
| 45 | After the usual social exchanges we got down to business explaining the range of counselling that we could give and the various reasons why we thought it was important to ‘ talk about it ’ . |
| 46 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 47 | We got down to it immediately . |
| 48 | We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat . |
| 49 | ‘ Is n't it about time we got down to some work ? |
| 50 | We got down to number tend and they were all one liners . |
| 51 | ‘ But when we got down to signing the papers I saw there was £198 charged for the fittings and £223 VAT on the original sum I had been quoted . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | We got back to the Barracks at a quarter past seven , and then I realised something strange was going on : I got some breakfast . |
| 54 | The whole morning was a fair to average shambles , even when we got back to Battalion HQ We found the basement at Cadogan Gardens full of fainting civilians — mostly rather pretty girls . ’ |
| 55 | When we got back to the platform the train was not yet in . |
| 56 | We got back to camp around 4pm unloaded the van , cleaned all our blackened pots , put away our food , unpacked our gear , had hot showers , washed our hair and got ready for a big lobster dinner with fresh corn and a huge green salad and gobs of ice cream or frozen yoghurt . |
| 57 | ‘ 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 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | When we got back to her cottage she put her hand in her bodice and pulled out a string with her key and a whistle attached to it . |
| 60 | When we got back to our door Mrs Jonesy and Mrs Phipps were still loitering , all ears , so Frankie deliberately poured some of the icy water on Mrs Jonesy 's feet . |