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

No	Sentence
1	‘ The analysts finally said that what we were doing was not the problem — the problem was that we made it look as though the truth was being dragged out of us .
2	There were no chairs or tables in the kitchens , so we ate it standing up around the cookers and stoves .
3	That was going to be in May so we needed it to ship in April so I said , well you 've got to you 've got to still finish it at the same time .
4	The budget was about right , except for the extras we added later , and we got it finished in the summer .
5	Edith Sitwell had wanted to sue a reviewer because his notice was likely to hurt the sales of her book — and we thought it had merely been his duty to his readers to discourage them from buying a book that he thought bad .
6	We had three calls last week not it 's , it 's about a month since , wanting to know about the washing machine and we said it 's sold sold er a couple of weeks ago .
7	A ball of green wool was passed around and we used it to bind ourselves together as the singing continued .
8	Selecting the right sized Disc , we took a pan of milk and we allowed it to heat to the point where it was about to boil over .
9	Cos we had it done in our hall .
10	cos we called it changed it from Lisa to Anna for mum .
11	we , we would all spend more if we had it to spend , we would all like to look more beautiful
12	‘ If we thought it had something genuinely good about it , yes , but a lot of stuff is catchy and commercial because it sounds enough like everything else to be unchallenging and throwaway .
13	If we allowed it to happen once then all the people who read your paper would think they could do it as well . ’
14	Erm how many men would we need if we wanted it built in four hours .
15	But we would n't have done it unless we needed it copied down .
16	‘ At first , I had a few reservations but we got it mixed in a day .
17	But we got it started again .
18	It did not deserve to live , but we wanted it to live .
19	He said we were holding on to the ball , but we wanted it to come out .
20	If you do know it , then , should you admit it , because if we 've seen it happen , we 'll report it as fact , because we saw it happen .
21	I mean we gave a certificate for St Aldate 's Courtyard for instance , because we felt it looked really very nice and so much better than the office block across the road .
22	‘ Children have been used up to this because we felt it showed a non-violent style . ’
23	Yes , we were n't too happy with the point situation because we considered it went too low , but having said that , now that it 's been democratically voted in , we are one hundred per cent in obeyance with it and we are going to go along with it .
24	Some of you may remember her because we stayed at her hotel er a little while ago and she has a lovely horse chestnut tree er outside her hotel and since we went it stopped producing conkers .
25	It took us seven drafts before we got what we wanted , before we felt it worked .
26	Talk about giving us a turn when we saw it move !
27	Well probably because er you know we try and keep up er er certain standard every year and er you know it 's very important doing a video that you have the right songs for it , you know to get a story book set up for each song and this one we felt when we had it finished was probably you know the best we 've done so far and lucky enough we 've been proved right .
28	It took time , it took time , it took a period of years till they got it finalized but when we got it finalized , we had for example er welding areas , in which no one was allowed in unless they were a welder you know .
29	When we arrived it seemed such a friendly place , there would be 2 or 3 people to meet you at the gates and welcome you in .
30	As we descended it became increasingly hot , and in the space of two hours we had dropped from rolling grassy hills to a sandy , semi-desert plain .