Example sentences of "we [vb past] it [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Once we made it in four hours , door to beach to door : bury Mum 's feet in the sand , forget they 're there , plunge spade into sand and come close to severing three toes .
2 ‘ When the merger between AY and Ernst & Whinney came along in 1989 , we welcomed it with open arms because strategically it was very sensible . ’
3 But in her case we allowed it for obvious reasons . ’
4 However she did not work in isolation of the sales figures and shop reports , which she read avidly and , as she wrote to Moira : ‘ I feel that we hit it in many respects but we do n't seem to repeat the exciting things fast though . ’
5 The target was demonstrably stronger than the signal from the 24-cm calibration sphere , and we tracked it for 68 seconds , in which time it seemed to dive from 69 m to 114 m ( a speed of0–8 m/s or just under 3 km/h ) .
6 We took it for forensic tests . ’
7 I am not sure that we would think the dancing , except by some of the principals , quite so wonderful by today 's standards , but we saw it with different eyes then , and John would have for comparison his memories of the Cape Town Ballet Club 's brave but handicapped attempt at the last act of the ballet , Aurora 's Wedding .
8 W we tried internment before , it caused a massive escalation of violence cos you never , you get families are angry , it escalates the numbers who are committed to terrorism , last time it was just the Republicans , if we did it on both sides it would just escalate terrorism .
9 The distance was eleven miles and we did it in two hours .
10 We did it in two plaits with huge white bandage bows .
11 We did it in twenty minutes flat .
12 Well we decided , decided what we w , what the object was , and then , we got into a position that certain cards so , the cards were split between u , the two of us , so we aimed it in different directions .
13 The battledress was very good , I mean the army seemed to wore it all that time so er we had it for several years and we had to press that every day , thick material , very heavy .
14 . We had it in all ways , shapes and forms .
15 And we gathered all this information we grouped it into those categories , admission , worship , and such like .
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