Example sentences of "[adv] we [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 It was extraordinary , but suddenly we seemed to be on quite different terms .
2 Suddenly we screeched to a halt at a checkpoint .
3 However language does not just reflect the society in which we live , it also contributes to how we experience that reality and how much we contribute to keeping things as they are .
4 We tend to take our water for granted , a turn of the tap and we have all we need , but we should consider more this most important mineral , without which we could not exist , the dry summer of 1976 proving how much we owe to water companies and the men who operate them .
5 ‘ All our players are contracted , and naturally we object to these unofficial approaches , ’ McIntyre said .
6 If we were selected at Lille , apparently we proceeded to Paris and then on to Marseilles after a number of further tests .
7 Yes I mean basically we need to first of all decide , I think this is what we 're deciding in the first instance , which option for the provision of information you find the most helpful .
8 Towards 4 o'clock we returned to the station to catch our train , which was to be hauled by a famous locomotive — ‘ Evening Star ’ .
9 Perhaps we need to MAKING A SHORT STORY 55 look , not at their content or form , but at their effect when we try to ascertain what is true for all of them — at least , all the stories that work .
10 So perhaps we need to be more concerned with providing the right environment and with removing constraints than with creating ‘ master plans ’ .
11 We have heard quite a lot , colleagues , about pensions and pension schemes over the last eighteen months perhaps we have to actually thank Mr Maxwell for raising the issue , even if those pensioners he cheated wo n't thank him .
12 The problem of course arises , as I 've said earlier , when things go wrong , things like Chernobyl accidents and so on so we 've got ta use nuclear power obviously we have to erm er make sure that we do n't have accidents like that .
13 ‘ We try to plan well in advance , but obviously we have to be flexible .
14 So today puts us back into third place if we win and and obviously we want to be there .
15 So we says to him , why did n't he get a half of lager a h a bottle of Kaliber which is a half of lager non-alcohol , and put it in a pint glass .
16 So we set to under our section corporal , Jimmy Brough , and slogged away until we had completed ten such excavations , wondering where the tents were that were to fill them .
17 So we came to the AAA Championships .
18 So we came to the halt , everything worked perfectly and I was astonished how easy this all was , I rather fancy it was the one blade digging gently in and scribing a beautiful arc to port , all the time into wind ; it was the gentlest of one-wheel landings that could ever have been attained .
19 So we went to bed . ’
20 So we went to bed .
21 So we went to France to this huge warehouse in Les Halles .
22 So we went to the locker-room of Portmarnock and Peter introduced me to the great Arnold Palmer .
23 After our return from France we felt that we still did not have the complete story of that operation , and so we went to the Public Records Office at Kew to look up the records of 22 Squadron over that period .
24 So we went to the dining room .
25 And anyway so we went to er over to Egypt and then it was when we came back and I I , the other morning on the radio they was talking about asking people to ring in about , I 've never rang in , I never bother ring , er how they spent their twenty first birthday .
26 Well so we went to the I L P and er at this time we started getting er a class together in the , where I worked there was a hundred men and hundred lads , approximately .
27 So we went to Sarajevo .
28 You see , and so we went to oh Inverness , Aberdeen and across to the Isle of Skye , and down the Skye and back across the water to Mallaig you see and er then we stayed one time at Fort William and because I love Scotland , so did he and erm and , and then and all r and then , and another thing , erm , this is before I married erm I went down , oh no , both of us , that 's right , we went down to stay at erm not , not Portsmouth er Southsea er there , there 's a place near there , next door
29 So we went to Sopot ,
30 So we went to a restaurant in the King 's Road . ’
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