Example sentences of "we [vb past] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you 'd say , right , and you 'd go the , after the baby was born you , you 'd go back again to what we call the nur nursing , nursing up and you 'd want the bowl again for the baby and you 'd say wh where 's the bowl and they 'd say , oh well I think it 's downstairs , we used it yesterday to make a pudding in . |
| 2 | So anyway , we booked it in to have it done Sunday . |
| 3 | When we were asleep , it had ceased to matter , but when we ate it still remained a bore . |
| 4 | We watched it once did n't we ? |
| 5 | We thought it right to publish the memorandum to help the House understand the background to the instrument . |
| 6 | We took it in turns to see how close we could get . |
| 7 | On wet days at Great Casterton we took it in turns to lecture , and on one of them I offered to talk about the Fosse Way as a Roman military frontier , a subject which had intrigued me from my work at Lincoln . |
| 8 | We felt it right to accept the inevitable costs at this stage in the economic cycle and not to cut back on long-term plans that will strengthen the economy . |
| 9 | It was always exciting — and we knew it never meant anything . |
| 10 | We knew it never got submerged by the tide and our idea was to take some photographs of a full moon rising over Widemouth . |
| 11 | This was truly paradise ; it had to be savoured as we knew it short lived . |
| 12 | And er it took us a long time to get the special material because as you will gather , we tend to do everything properly , so we had to have the a cloth specially woven er handwoven of course and especially dyed and for once we had it especially fooled in other words the nap was raised . |