Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] we [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah , Mary , Mary Shelley , how dear you were and are , beyond all women — and yet what was possible then was only possible because we were mere phantoms in the world , or so we saw it , and scarcely less than phantoms to each other . |
| 2 | and eventually we bought it |
| 3 | ‘ I had a dimple there , ’ the Senator had confessed with his engaging frankness , ‘ which my advisers determined made me look too baby-faced , and so we had it removed . ’ |
| 4 | 6 October , 1835 FELIX MENDELSSOHN writes to his family from Leipzig : ‘ The day after I accompanied the Hensels to Delitzsch , Chopin arrived here ; he would not stay more than a day , and so we spent it together entirely , and played music . |
| 5 | And then he talked to his family , and then the third time I asked him again , and he still said it was okay , and so we did it . |
| 6 | David Harper said : ‘ At first we thought it was just stunned and then we realised it was really in a very bad way . ’ |
| 7 | And then we saw it . |
| 8 | We asked several questions and received confusing replies , and then we asked it to tap out in tens the age of our headmistress at school ( a dreary old spinster with a sharp nose for ferreting out misdemeanors , and no sense of humour ) . |
| 9 | And then we liked it so that was for ever more . |
| 10 | And I find that extremely understandable , but nevertheless we felt it was necessary to say , ‘ Well , you know , it 's not right . |
| 11 | But somehow we missed it . |
| 12 | But then we developed it a bit further like we did with negative numbers . |