Example sentences of "and we [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we got to New York . |
| 2 | We went off and we got to a steep hill , we all had to get out |
| 3 | And we got to there from starting off with fifty pounds between a hundred and fifty of them which was quite hard to handle but by making it smaller this is called cancelling fraction when you take really we 're dividing this side we say , well we 've got ten on the top and ten on , ten times five on the top ten times fifteen on the bottom . |
| 4 | ‘ L Detachment on the other hand , had set a minimum standard to which all ranks had to attain and we had to be most firm in returning to their units ( R.T.U. ) those who were unable to reach that standard . ’ |
| 5 | The net result of having so many favoured people around was that tickets for the Kirov and Bolshoi ballets were obviously rationed , and we had to be content with second league fixtures of circus and puppet shows to fill any gaps in the programme . |
| 6 | ‘ Yeah , and we had to fork out fags for the water . |
| 7 | Apparently there was an exam in the hall next door to the music room and we had to be quiet . |
| 8 | And why the problems there is that any sort of loud music was actually buried under the auditorial I mean that was the problem that occurred and we had to sort of tone it down a bit . |
| 9 | The only time I spoke to the cameras was when me and another woman were in the kitchen and we had to sort of make a conversation . |
| 10 | And then , after two years , we were allowed on to the wards in our white coats and we had to erm find out about the patients and initially we were all very slow and we were given two hours to talk to a patient to find out all about them . |
| 11 | ‘ Tremors of this magnitude , although rare , have been recorded in the region and we had to be comfortable that the plant could withstand the worst-case scenario . |
| 12 | The following three hours passed with surprising speed , but I had already learnt a valuable lesson : it is very tiring and hard being in general surgery ; every patient expects that the doctor knows all about them the moment they walk in the door , and we had to be empathetic , not sympathetic . |
| 13 | It was Monday when we left and we had to be out of Debenham by quarter to seven in the morning . |
| 14 | I and the girls , that 's , that 's all they got fifteen shillings because I was in the office I got a pound and mind you we slept in , we had all our food , you see , and we had to all sleep in . |
| 15 | It had to be passionate — and we had to be naked . |
| 16 | A nightmare and we had to actually ring the emergency number and in an emergency ring this number |
| 17 | And we had to . |
| 18 | Yeah , I think that we need to look into more depth the issue of the County Farms estate , we agreed from the start it was something that could not be rushed , and we had to , the principle question that needed to be answered was that was there a viability for County Farms or role for County Farms in the nineteen nineties . |
| 19 | Well , to keep it tidy , you see the , the creases used to come out so quickly , and we had to be , well on parade you were , you were looked at and you had to be very tidy and proper and er if you did n't do it you were told to do it and that was that . |
| 20 | and er , and we had to be so we got Ian 's one did when we pedal up and down |
| 21 | That 's why I would expect to see and we planned to some extent , we may have under-planned an increase in costs . |
| 22 | He had a Corporal with him and we doubled to the front of Brigade H.Q and clambered aboard a jeep that had a trailer attached . |
| 23 | This is one of the problems under which the law labours , because of course , if we did n't accept that it 's individual guilt that counts , and we looked to group guilt , then that in itself is an infringement of civil liberties and human rights , you are being judged not according to your acts but according to the acts of others erm with whom you happened to associate , even though your conduct may not in itself be reprehensible . |
| 24 | So far so good : and we drank to Toby 's usual cry of ‘ up she goes ’ . |
| 25 | The Loch Ness Project took on the mantle of the LNI and picked up from the Loch Morar expeditions , and we returned to Loch Ness , whose steep-walled uniformity is more favourable to sonar . |
| 26 | Nigel rejoined me , dressed , and we returned to the car . |
| 27 | Our visit had taken a long time and we returned to Skeldale House for lunch . |
| 28 | He gave the order and we returned to our books . |
| 29 | Thankfully , Benjamin agreed and we returned to the manor house . |
| 30 | Then the movement shifted and we veered to the gate . |