Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night in the cold and dark we failed to fix it properly again , and when I wake up there is snow all over us and our kit . |
| 2 | Right , Erm multiply and divide by , put the word by , okay and then erm answer A N , yes capitals , A N S W E R Good , now we 've printed this come out with grid lines , we got to format it so what we do is |
| 3 | Oddly the cottage was fully booked when we tried to take it again at Easter . |
| 4 | I think we tried to use it once , and it was like a comedy show , it was crazy . |
| 5 | We tried to keep it as logical as possible and er , there you have it . |
| 6 | Although heaven knows we tried to keep it there . |
| 7 | If we 'd seen it once a year that was often , |
| 8 | Definitely yes , we wish we 'd done it sooner |
| 9 | Erm , the problem is that this should , this agenda was prepared over the Christmas period basically , and , and we started on the preparations of an economic development strategy in , in accordance with the way we 'd done it before , which was basically a strategy of what we were going to do ourselves . |
| 10 | I think we were near deluding ourselves that Harry had never happened , that we 'd done it all ourselves . |
| 11 | So far from abandoning our folly , we started pushing it as far as it would go . |
| 12 | ALL parents of four-year-olds know what strong-minded little monsters they can be — but we decided to risk it anyway with a trip to Val d'Isere . |
| 13 | We had planned on selling the Tri-Pacer in Australia , but after 202 hours , 44 stops and 25,749 kilometres in it , we decided to take it home . |
| 14 | ‘ The album was going to be called NO BOLLOCKS ! , ’ laughs Cris Bonacci , ‘ but in the end we decided to call it simply Girlschool , because we realised we 'd never used the name of the band as a title before … ’ |
| 15 | It looked enticing and we decided to follow it as far as we could . |
| 16 | Our passing was n't up to their standard ( ! ) and we kept giving it away too often . |
| 17 | Displaying one 's car tax disc where we do seems sensible , but what would happen if we chose to put it somewhere equally prominent ? |
| 18 | We went to see it today and are to move in tomorrow . |
| 19 | I would go further and say that we have kept it on the statute book already — there was an opportunity not to retain it during the passage of the emergency provisions Act , but we did retain it then . |
| 20 | We did buy it once before . |
| 21 | I 'll tell you about Penny Lane , my tiniest youth , I was tiny , so tiny , too tiny to spit on , and my friend Chock who lived in the bathroom radiator , hissing low inside my head , shrivelling at the clink of my mother 's heels in the hallway , holding his breath , whispering , a lady is coming , dancing to the plaid of the bathroom tiles and to the records my father played ; and the first time we heard ‘ Penny Lane ’ , we knew we had heard it before . |
| 22 | I 'm pleased but it 's not compensation for all of the trauma we have suffered or the money we have lost if we had invested it elsewhere . |
| 23 | ‘ The rest of us had put up much the same , given that we had done it earlier , ’ he assured McLeish . |
| 24 | It seemed a bit lukewarm , and we felt we had to go it alone . |
| 25 | we had to plaster it underneath because erm he had to , we just had wires like this down the end ? |
| 26 | We had to tow it home because the clutch had gone . |
| 27 | The back door here you know we had to replace it really . |
| 28 | ‘ But I wish we had played it more for comedy — it was too depressing . |
| 29 | And we had to do it over a week and over a month because some weeks you do things that do n't do |
| 30 | We had to do it later and later . |