Example sentences of "we [vb past] it [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm you 're now you 're not doing anything at the moment , we we agreed it was resting . |
| 2 | We realised it was going to be years before it would be right . ’ |
| 3 | SCO claims it was misunderstood all those long months we thought it was decommitting from ACE , shuffling the MIPS work back to DEC and favouring Intel . |
| 4 | GUIL : ( Thinks ) We thought it was lost . |
| 5 | cos a friend of mine had a baby and we thought it was gon na be a boy and she had another bloody girl ! |
| 6 | Jock Bruce-Gardyne and Nigel Lawson quote ‘ a senior member ’ of the committee summing up its conclusion thus : ‘ even then we thought it was going to ruin us ; but also that you ca n't control the march of science ’ . |
| 7 | After a period spent talking about the Legion and what we thought it was going to be like , he turned to me , shook my hand and wished me good luck . |
| 8 | But just as we thought it was going to flatten us , if somehow back-pedalled , slowed , cut its jets , rippled its fringes and turned pink . |
| 9 | And then we used to listen with our ear on the ground and we could hear where the dog was do you see , and then we used to dig down there because we knew it was fighting there with the with a vixen do you see . |
| 10 | Manager Eric Sortwell said : ‘ We knew it was going to be busy but not as busy as this . ’ |
| 11 | With this attitude , despite the bad start , we knew it was going to be a Happy New Year after all , and set about restoring some order to our home … , . |
| 12 | The only reason we did it was to gain notoriety . |
| 13 | Even when we married it was going to be a secret for a bit . |