Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |
| 3 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
| 4 | Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop |
| 5 | He was obviously peeved that we 'd squared it with the music teacher while he did n't know anything about it . |
| 6 | Even though we 'd sold it for a ridiculously low . |
| 7 | If we 'd left it to the day we 'd have been sunk ! |
| 8 | I thumbed through the aeroplane magazine looking for articles on pre-ski protuberances — curiously there were none , and we decided to ignore it in the hope that it would go down roughly when the plane did . |
| 9 | ‘ When you 're writing stuff , these kinds of songs come out and you know you 're never going to use them seriously , but we had such a laugh when we were playing about with that one , we decided to use it on the single . |
| 10 | Repacking the camera gear , we decided to abandon it to the elements in orange survival bags , and bracing ourselves , we retreated down the steep and slippery slope . |
| 11 | We decided to show it to a booking agent who books cabaret , so I spoke to Harry Dawson who did a lot of , cabaret work and we auditioned it for him . |
| 12 | However , we decided to try it with the food and tucked into some quite outstanding starters , including terrine of foie gras with wild mushrooms and some grilled bites of red mullet with caviar which positively leapt into the mouth . |
| 13 | ‘ We managed to sell it as a going concern , but got next to nothing for it and had to take a massive write-off . |
| 14 | But at least we managed to keep it in the UK , although we had lots of offers to go abroad . |
| 15 | We did make it to a boozer afterwards , though , and we all agreed it was worth making a note of for future reference . |
| 16 | I know we did saw it in the fridge . |
| 17 | ‘ They ’ did not come as far west as Fulham that night , but we did get it before the end of the week . |
| 18 | But , although we had tested it during the day , the drop in the temperature at night was so great that the oil in the mechanism became sluggish and thick . |
| 19 | The cylinders were causing minor explosions and we had to tackle it from the outside , using the protection of adjoining buildings and cars . |
| 20 | The main problem was that we had to do it with a RELIANT ROBIN three wheeler car , looking remarkably similar to Del Boy 's . |
| 21 | We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings . |
| 22 | And er it was er we had to develop it from a poorhouse into an old folks ' home . |
| 23 | And obviously we would want to take money out of reserves , our original amendment took one point three million pounds out of reserves and it 's interesting to see now that you 're suggesting almost that figure again and yet for years you 've been telling us you ca n't take this money out of the reserves , er you know we had to keep it for a rainy day . |
| 24 | Er we also had one very large , cumbersome machine which carried things like lighting and breathing apparatus , and heavy lifting gear and all the other bits and pieces of rescue equipment , which came along in slow time , now that has been improved upon no end , and they 've got a very modern equipment now for that , erm er modern in the sense that new , new pieces have come on , cutting equipment with hydraulic jaws which er just slice through the top of a car roof , whereas we had to cut it with a hacksaw perhaps , or , or another metal saw , we , these can be done with just like cutting through cheese . |
| 25 | This song appealed especially , as we had filched it from the Germans . |
| 26 | Our next meeting of our local group we refused to launch it on the day that we were doing the training , and if you 'd seen the launch yesterday it was absolutely bloody abysmal . |
| 27 | ‘ It 'll do , ’ he said , with his customary offhand modesty , as we stood admiring it in the church . |
| 28 | Well , 25 of us went to see it on the 13th of February , and it 's a good show . |
| 29 | Nineteen of us had made it to the end . |