Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] we [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | … it being very narrow where we met it , the Driver of the Chaise in backing his Horses to avoid being drove over overturned his Chaise , but very providentially , blessed be Almighty God for it ! we received very little Injury , Nancys Face was a little bruised . |
| 2 | ‘ His knee is slightly unstable and we thought it best he saw the surgeon who performed the operation on him . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ His knee is slightly unstable and we thought it best he saw the surgeon who performed the operation . ’ |
| 4 | Discipline was rigid and we respected it , but resented it too , because of a particular juvenile arrogance that must have been founded on the knowledge that the world was changing a lot more than they realised , and it was for us that it was changing . |
| 5 | But we are embarrassed because we got it wrong when usually we do not . |
| 6 | I was quite embarrassed when we did it two years ago . ’ |
| 7 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 8 | ‘ So you 're more or less convinced that we pulled it off ? ’ |
| 9 | She took the packet with some fussy excitement , and she was clearly a little relieved when we made it clear that we had no intention of staying or seeking entrance . |
| 10 | He admitted last night : ‘ It would be incredible if we pulled it off after all the upheaval at the club this season . |
| 11 | It was fine when we had it out two weeks ago . |
| 12 | By then we were all pretty good so we found it much more enjoyable . |
| 13 | ‘ We were so good for so long that we took it for granted . |
| 14 | I am not sure if we rewound it or what . |
| 15 | It was good whilst we had it though … |
| 16 | What we 're actually doing in terms of the product is we 're actually widening the franchise erm I do n't like to use words going up market that suggests that we 're leaving our core customers behind , we will we will add any product that is complimentary to our core kitchens but er we 'll still be the main stance of the product in these two stores for instance , we 're going to introduce a house wear department it is something that we 've been experimenting with before we 're going to erm use the opportunity to widen the franchise on appliances we 're going to erm use the an experiment on erm floorings to match work tops , those kind of developments just to test to see whether the customer reaction is as good as we hoped it would be so that we can then introduce it in the main chain |
| 17 | But … but , as Mama said , as long as we kept it clean and it was only for a short time … |
| 18 | And that , er it was kind of and the garden was small cos we had it , a quite big garden and you know things like that , I think , and the travelling and everything I think got her down a bit , I know she sat down and had a cry , yeah . |
| 19 | It was small and murky and we called it a lochan . |
| 20 | But each one said ooh it 's not as small as we thought it was you see . |
| 21 | So , having accepted that the 25SE is something other than we expected it to be , let's examine it more closely . |
| 22 | If we reconsider the earlier extract ( 5 ) as one participant wanting to know the meaning of an expression and the other offering a possible explanation , we can see that the explanation is offered in personal terms ( when we were young and we called it ‘ the taw ’ ) based on the speaker 's personal experience . |
| 23 | Hawking as we called it , called it . |
| 24 | I 'm not saying we were the first , bloody hell , it sounded dated when we did it . |
| 25 | I know it sounds crackers but we preferred it , " said one of the pit brow lasses who started working at the pit when she was fourteen and finished when the women 's work was abolished after nationalisation . |
| 26 | The Japanese must have thought we were mad when we said it was dangerous ! ’ |
| 27 | it were n't too bad when we took it , it would play but there were n't even , when we brought it back |
| 28 | This is a , a helpful and reciprocal relationship because our students , who are in our Postgraduate Certificate of Education course , that 's university graduates who are training to be teachers , do go out into schools in this area and do their teaching practice in those schools in a rather interesting way and we developed a scheme , here in Sussex , which was quite novel when we started it about ten years ago . |