Example sentences of "we [vb past] it [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We eventually went to the Austrian Police in an effort to get some assistance and , as good fortune would have it , we met it young Austrian called Thomas who worked at one of the Shipping Offices on the border . |
| 2 | We got it last week cos we finished |
| 3 | Thus , by selecting the right ‘ task ’ , we have constrained a system we know , because we designed it that way , to be organized redundantly to give a double dissociation . |
| 4 | We are the artists , and if our life is a dark , jagged abstract when we prefer Impressionist pastels which dance with light , we should ask ourselves why we painted it that way . |
| 5 | Er I think we learnt it probably in different ways , we learnt it more parrot fashion than they do today . |
| 6 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 7 | Carl and his brothers were playing up around Jackson , Tennessee , and we called it honky-tonk music . |
| 8 | And we watched it one night , and it was Mrs Hewitt off Eastenders . |
| 9 | We saw it one day you know . |
| 10 | ‘ I guess we saw it that way : I did for sure . |
| 11 | And we did it first half , and when we were in possession , we were winning it in their sort of last third of the field , and that was giving us a great chance to create scoring chances and that 's what we 've done again today which has worked very well . |
| 12 | Well we did it last night till about ten o'clock . |
| 13 | We did it last year , did n't we ? |
| 14 | Yes , we did it last year ? |
| 15 | ‘ Every seat was sold out for every performance when we did it last year . ’ |
| 16 | Yeah we did it last year cos I broke up the day before last year all of mine still at school that day . |
| 17 | We did it last week . |
| 18 | However tempting it may be , try to avoid falling in to the trap of ‘ in my day we did it this way ’ or you may receive a stinging reply . |
| 19 | So if we did it this way , erm , let's pick an actual bearing , so that we get it right . |
| 20 | Erm , we rent land from the Duchy of Cornwall , perhaps , er well you know long leasehold , we bought it this way , and we pay low rent . |
| 21 | About time we gave it another whirl . |
| 22 | ‘ No , we wanted it that way , ’ stresses Tim . |
| 23 | ‘ No , we wanted it that way , ’ stresses Tim . |