Example sentences of "it [conj] we [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the righteous will reply , ‘ Lord , when was it that we saw you hungry and fed you , or thirsty and gave you drink , a stranger and took you home , or naked and clothed you ? |
| 2 | And they too will reply , ‘ Lord , when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison , and did nothing for you ? ’ |
| 3 | Barbara Davies writes : ‘ It is astonishing how Somerville , as well as feeding us on the meagre wartime rations , saw to it that we had our full ration of tutorials ; and that University lectures were given in the Arts subjects when almost all the male academics had departed for the forces or war-work . |
| 4 | Let us lay down our terms , make our own proclamations , establish our own diplomacy , see to it that we have our own international meetings . |
| 5 | how long ago was it that we bought it ? |
| 6 | There is nothing shameful in this situation and we will be better able to deal with it if we recognise it . |
| 7 | I told Stanley Kubrick ( his director in The Shining ) about it and we wrote it into the scene . |
| 8 | Er we thought we could work to it and we thought we had a different rule for timekeeping er and we did n't check the calculations . |
| 9 | and we had er , I mean we had a bright orange swivel chair and when that came out it was called the Orbit or something , something really weird and it had a big back on it and we thought it was great I mean , I think it 's awful now , some of the things we had , I 'll have to try and find some photographs cos I 've got a case full of photographs upstairs |
| 10 | We 've all been through it and we know what pain 's about . ’ |
| 11 | oh that 's the way we did it and we got it something off , this guy also said which some auctioneers like who are highly recognized |
| 12 | The boy ran across it and we followed him , bent double , as bullets hissed around the disembodied doors , the upturned chairs . |
| 13 | He tore out the early pages and gave me the rest of it and we use it now for our visitors ' signatures . ‘ |
| 14 | We are inundated with relatives we encourage it and we make it a special time . |
| 15 | Tony Visconti : ‘ When David and Angela found the enormous Victorian house , Haddon Hall , in Beckenham , my girlfriend and I went along to see it and we loved it . |
| 16 | we rehearsed it and we rehearsed it and I mean I did n't mind they were paying the bill for and I literally with a college took up residence for several days before it in a local hotel and we went through it in every fine detail |
| 17 | And we did it and we did it jointly for for security , that we agreed the figure |
| 18 | When a new plane came in and they assigned it to our crew , it being the principle crew and we got to name it and we named our plane Skyscraper , I do have some later pictures but er it taken in front of the plane of the crew that I was flying with at that time and the ground crew in front of Skyscraper . |
| 19 | ‘ Lotus built it and we marketed it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We know it and we feel it , ’ said the Oak . |
| 21 | And we do , the question is can we afford it and we think we can . |
| 22 | Erm so I take I understand your point we are aware of it and we think our campaign will take take er those factors into account . |
| 23 | Cos I , I says to Sarah go on we 'll have a listen to it and we stopped it anyway I says I 'll t I 'll take it off if you want , he says no leave it . |
| 24 | That 's where we 've been for the last twenty years so erm this company er that was already doing it and we bought it into the er into the fold . |
| 25 | All I do I got out sort of the sort of about eight thirty and then I , I 'd work to about half three and all I 'd wan na do is , we , we 'd fucking , we 'd set up the cable then we 'd all sit down and do nothing while the old erm , the M O D people had obviously it , and then they tell us to take it down and move it and we move it and set it up again , its like out of a , out of a seven hour day , we 'd only work about three or four , like here . |
| 26 | Now there 's us working working , taking everything in , working slowly taking everything in piece by piece we could end up with a job at the end of it cos we know what we 're doing . |
| 27 | But we still do it cos we insure it , we , charge an extra fiver every time then it 's good money . |
| 28 | But we would n't have done it unless we needed it copied down . |
| 29 | There 's a forest fifty miles off , it 's outside our window because it 's not in this room and to come a little nearer home ther there 's a campus outside our window but we ca n't exactly see very much of it but we know it 's there and it 's got some birds in it , it 's probably got some little insects in it and there 's a woodpecker |
| 30 | That 's it like a desk that 's really that that was the American way of spelling it but we spell it that way now . |