Example sentences of "we [vb past] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made it in a factory ( Hollowcore ) using moulded GRG . |
| 2 | We made it in a smother of white water close inshore towards Buckie . |
| 3 | His father and I owned and ran the Ontario Raceworld magazine for years before we sold it to a conglomerate . ’ |
| 4 | We priced it at a wholesaler price , a retailer price and a con the price of a consumer . |
| 5 | We approached it with a will to get things done with socialist thinking . |
| 6 | There was a small gap in the fence that was unaffected by the pile-up and we approached it at a forty-five degree angle . |
| 7 | It seemed beyond belief to start with , we approached it as a trick , a lure , but now ferried confident . |
| 8 | We tried it for a whole year . |
| 9 | The other car , the other De Dion we had , burst its radiator , but we are very resourceful ; we went and bought thirty foot of garden hose and connected it to the engine and sent the water round and round the car and that acted as a radiator , and we drove it for a week like that . |
| 10 | To keep the look simple , we teamed it with a short cotton knit skirt , £36 , SML , from Fenn Wright & Manson , but it would look equally good with jeans or leggings . |
| 11 | ‘ So if we rebuilt it in a more palatial style we could make a real killing when we sold it . |
| 12 | Therefore we submitted it as a candidate . |
| 13 | When we prepared the Fifth Symphony , we recorded it as a trial , worked on it again , then recorded it properly — sixty hours before we first gave it in public ! |
| 14 | The ‘ theatre ’ ran parallel to the ward and we reached it through a short , glass-enclosed passageway . |
| 15 | Wanda stole a half-bottle of Latvian double kümmel from her father 's extensive cellar and we took it to a little bridge on the outskirts of the village where we sat and talked , being careful to hide the bottle when anyone passed by but sipping away until we had finished the lot . |
| 16 | We thought it a good idea to start off by hiring a motor caravan , or camper van as they 're called in NZ , but as it was quite expensive we took it for a fortnight just to try it . |
| 17 | But I think we blew it in a big way . |
| 18 | We saw it for a moment and then the match went out . |
| 19 | We saw it as a tremendous opportunity to secure the future of our Elderslie factory by introducing more volume and generating more profit for our group — particularly at a time when I know everyone is aware that business is very tight in all our trading divisions . |
| 20 | We saw it as an opportunity to demystify the male worlds of plumbing , electricity and carpentry . |
| 21 | ‘ WE TREATED it as a hostage-taking ’ , says John Dalzell , director of communications for the Montreal Police Force . |
| 22 | ‘ We sang it as a song in Junior School , ’ he admitted , but Anne was still happy that he had thought of it . |
| 23 | But er we did it as a deal with a a bloke wanted a telly |
| 24 | We did it for a laugh . |
| 25 | Bu I meet a erm , a different oh , tribe in Saherli but I got married in England with my , though we make , this , I 'd say , this man to be my wife forever , but when I got home , back home in Ingeria you know , we did it in a , a different way . |
| 26 | Er we dismantled one of the six cylinder engines , we did it in a shift . |
| 27 | but then again there , but you , you fire off the blank , that 's what triggers the laser sometimes if there 's been a lot of , we did , we did it in a couple of time see the old laser go , cor , its got very think red beam , its not like you see these big flashing great big bits of light like on Star Wars and stuff , well its not , its not suppose to hurt you its a very thin piercing beam , its well impressive . |
| 28 | We did it in an entirely different way . |
| 29 | When we went to Telford and Charles , I think we did it in an afternoon did n't we , and that includes every single cul-de-sac in the area . |
| 30 | ‘ The dining suite is Regency and we bought it at an auction in Bournemouth , ’ says Pauline . |