Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] to " 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 | Together we rode back to Thornfield . |
| 4 | Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip . |
| 5 | It was a wonderful drive on an afternoon balmy enough to warrant lowering the electric windows and we cruised along to Mahler 's music playing on the six speaker sound system , through some of the most beautiful countryside we have ever seen . |
| 6 | It was a wonderful drive on an afternoon balmy enough to warrant lowering the electric windows and we cruised along to Mahler 's music playing on the six speaker sound system , through some of the most beautiful countryside we have ever seen . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Er who ran bus services from Gala to Selkirk and Melrose and er we sold out to them because we , the other side of the business where the private car side seemed to be growing . |
| 9 | We produced up to 10000 sterile hybrid males per day . |
| 10 | And so , refreshed , we passed on to Hong Kong . |
| 11 | The YTS we passed on to our Plant Raiser was no better . |
| 12 | We passed on to the family all the information we had . |
| 13 | Then we doubled back to the barges . |
| 14 | All too soon the islands were a memory , as we steamed down to England , with calls at Liverpool , the Isle of Man and Welsh ports . |
| 15 | An' then we 'ave a look at Bill 's book to check out what it was we got up to . |
| 16 | God , the things we got up to . ’ |
| 17 | When we got up to the place , we found it was uninhabited . |
| 18 | That 's right , we used to go to Road Methodist and erm we got up to all sorts of capers there you know . |
| 19 | We got up to mischief obviously like a lot more , youngsters do even today , but er there was none of this sort of vandalism , we did n't use to destroy anything . |
| 20 | After stops for punctures we got up to the snow . |
| 21 | Did I tell me when we got up to erm Newcastle we turned on the local news , they 'd had five inches of rain which is a winter 's rain in four days . |
| 22 | but when we got up to the top of the house I needed to go to the toilet . |
| 23 | I remember that we got round to talking about historical hindsight , or the kind of attitude to which André Maurois ( to whom I was to introduce Eliot years later ) referred when he imagined a man saying ‘ Gentlemen , we are about to enter upon the Middle Ages ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Then we got round to Edwin 's death and Francis 's murder . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 28 | Recently , we were having a debate in the Lords and we got on to nationalization and I said that one thing that we need to nationalize in this country is the Treasury , but nobody has ever succeeded . |
| 29 | We got on to dreams because Vern 's interested in them too . |
| 30 | 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 . |