Example sentences of "we [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 2 | What was more , when we plotted , not strength but breaking strain , against thickness , we found that it did not matter what the whiskers were made of , for they all plotted on the same curve . |
| 3 | Assembling our find on deck we found that it consisted of a case of 10,000 cigarettes and several cases of spirits . |
| 4 | This makes the special position of the maternal uncle seem even more anomalous , and led Junod to suppose that we could only understand this peculiar relationship if we assumed that it represented an anachronistic throwback or ‘ survival ’ of an earlier matriarchal stage . |
| 5 | In introducing the predicative construction in Section 3.2 we stated that it had two positive characteristics : completeness , which we regard as primary ; and the secondary characteristic of making explicit the validity of the subordinate property for the entity qualified . |
| 6 | We hid but it made no difference , they still found us . |
| 7 | We heard that it does not intend to cap any local authority . |
| 8 | Carella had taken the number of the taxi and we discovered that it had dropped the suspect outside the San Gallicano hospital in Trastevere . |
| 9 | but I can hardly remember what we decided but it seems that we 've now got |
| 10 | Whatever you think about sliced bread ( for myself , I detest it ) , we all know the expression meant we did n't know how we managed before it existed . |
| 11 | Stubbornly , we insisted that it did . |
| 12 | We cried when it went . |
| 13 | The one occasion on which the Government did not cheat on the payments was earlier this year and we hoped that it had something to do with the Adjournment debate . |
| 14 | That 's what John said last night , we er , all they , all went to bingo five of us went and it boomeranged well if you 're going I 'll come , if I 'm going you 're going I 'm going and the next thing poor old John had to go out and work look after about eleven kids |
| 15 | The headlights of the taxi-van behind us flashed as it hit bumps in the road and the interior lit up the faces of the men in the van with me . |