Example sentences of "we [vb past] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was all we got when it was a twelfth a little tiny piece like that . |
| 2 | And then we used When it g we used to fetch it off then like , cut it and then fetch it off in sheaths , like h , you know , like a big slice of bread . |
| 3 | Yeah cos we ordered when it was . |
| 4 | The first programme we watched after it was installed was one my father would have loved , about old sailing-ships and the life of our ancestor , the poet-sailor William Falconer , who wrote a long poem , The Shipwreck , which was popular in its day . |
| 5 | We might , however , usefully make " trust " the focal point of a drama in which , for example we examined when it is appropriate to trust someone , or how we might learn to trust someone in difficult circumstances , or how we can gain someone 's trust — but this is very different from the worryingly naive claims sometimes made for " trust games " . |
| 6 | we had Roy and then we had Simon for a bit and then we decided because it was n't working altogether an Edinburgh person and a Glasgow person |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We played a well we went to the open last year , quite a few of us , and we 're going again er and w It was n't a particularly nice day but we thought if it 's it was a nice day , this would really be a lovely course . |
| 9 | Well there there i they used to s you know invite everybody you said to you know everybody down on the picket line , well we were kids we used to go like re to be quite honest like we went because it were you know a bit of fun really . |
| 10 | We cried when it went . |
| 11 | We ran after it as fast as we could . |
| 12 | 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 . |