Example sentences of "[vb past] we [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 Subsequently when I got back down and realised we 'd done it , and everyone had got off the mountain and no-one had been injured , I had an immense feeling of satisfaction , just of having stood there .
2 When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families .
3 We just decided we had to have it , ’ he says .
4 It seemed a bit lukewarm , and we felt we had to go it alone .
5 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 .
6 The creature gave a loud cry of pain , and we knew we had hit it .
7 We thought we 'd made it clear that it was only the MPC ( Multimedia PC ) versions of either card ( that is the SoundBlaster Pro and the Adlib Gold ) gave access to both MID and WAV file playing .
8 I really thought we 'd blown it when I saw him cracking up .
9 I thought I thought we 'd given it a really good airing this
10 " When did we last have it , Matt , can you tell us ? "
11 ‘ How did we manage to escape it ? ’ asked Fenella .
12 Did we have to hand it in ?
13 And er another thing that we never did in those school er very very very rarely did a boy erm oh what did we use to call it ?
14 she spoke to and said we 've discussed it cos I asked whether she 'd done that , she said she 'd spoken to and said we 've discussed that we should share the work more equally and said no I 'm happy with the way things were and left it that way
15 I think had we managed to stick it together a bit longer , all fifty of us , and just prove to the management that we were n't gon na be starved back to work which seemed to be the way they wanted us to go back , you know because the board had you know escalated , you know I think had we managed to stick it together , certainly the result would 've been different .
16 I think had we managed to stick it together a bit longer , all fifty of us , and just prove to the management that we were n't gon na be starved back to work which seemed to be the way they wanted us to go back , you know because the board had you know escalated , you know I think had we managed to stick it together , certainly the result would 've been different .
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