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

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1 We made it without much trouble , but it was a different story on our return , when the tide had receded causing the swell to break .
2 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 .
3 We got it for four pound fifty .
4 So when we set out to develop our new Panasonic brand AT compatible personal computer , we designed it for maximum versatility .
5 ‘ When the merger between AY and Ernst & Whinney came along in 1989 , we welcomed it with open arms because strategically it was very sensible . ’
6 But in her case we allowed it for obvious reasons . ’
7 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 . ’
8 He wanted five per cent , we settled it for three point seven five .
9 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 ) .
10 We broke it off this afternoon . ’
11 No it , we took it to this bloke and I do n't know what he 's done with it because it played before we took it and when he , he said it were n't worth doing and when we brought it back it wo n't even roll now even play now will it ?
12 We took it for forensic tests . ’
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 We did it with Dangerous Lady , too , which was an amazing success for us last year [ it sold some 130,000 copies ] .
16 It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ?
17 Well I can remember then the last year when I was in the ninth year we did it in that half term , it was n't the first
18 The distance was eleven miles and we did it in two hours .
19 We did it in two plaits with huge white bandage bows .
20 We did it in twenty minutes flat .
21 We 've got it , we bought it in good faith and we 're keeping it
22 Nobody told us that these pesticides were being used , they just sprayed away , put the fruit and veg on sale — and we bought it in all innocence . ’
23 Denis and I worked on the show each morning and on our final evening we performed it in ninety degree heat for a deeply moved and even more deeply biased audience of mutual families .
24 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 .
25 What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ?
26 INTRIGUED BY John Moran 's project , we discussed it in more depth .
27 We tested it with another type which was the need : the new work needed a leader .
28 the other one , so we left it on that channel , channel nine I think it were .
29 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 .
30 We had it on this procedure , already .
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