Example sentences of "we [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | We agreed that it was indeed a fine day — a perfect day . |
| 2 | Is that if we took you on if we if we agreed that it my postal wallets might be a good idea for you and you were to delay coming into the er into the company by a week , it could change which company you go into . |
| 3 | We were a little discomfited by the request , but agreed to accede to it this once ; but when we realised that it was to be a regular arrangement , we knew that we should have to move again , for over and above the inconvenience of being put out of our room , we were sure that our landlady did not even change the sheets . |
| 4 | When , towards the end of 1985 , we merged with our sister bank to form Britain 's first nationwide 850-strong branch network , we realised that it would be important to develop name awareness throughout England and Wales . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | That was all we got when it was a twelfth a little tiny piece like that . |
| 7 | In fact , in this case the unit was out on a CDL trial with quite inadequate documentation — the only documentation we had at that time was such that we were frightened to show it to the teacher because we realized that it would ‘ finish him off ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We found that it was cheaper for the four Europeans to travel to America than for the two Americans to come to London or Berlin . |
| 10 | We found that it was . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And when we measured the activity of protein kinase C in the membrane we found that it too increased in activity in the left IMHV thirty minutes after training . |
| 13 | ‘ We were really nervous , ’ says Michelle West , ‘ but we found that it was the nervous people who stuck with the project . ’ |
| 14 | Assembling our find on deck we found that it consisted of a case of 10,000 cigarettes and several cases of spirits . |
| 15 | When we got there we found that it was a diesel day with three Class 14's , a Class 40 and one Class 03 . |
| 16 | And we found that it 's starting to erm pay dividends . |
| 17 | ‘ As far as the clothing is concerned , it 's all in the reports , but to save you time I can tell you more or less what we found and it is n't a great deal . |
| 18 | We doubted that it was technically possible , or that there would be a niche for such a business , but they proved us to be wrong and that was the beginning of the launch of Tactel , our highly successful family of fibres for leisurewear , the ICI record campaign , and so many more besides . |
| 19 | ‘ We learnt that it is hard to build models to scale from a drawing as they are not very accurate in size . |
| 20 | ‘ The last few minutes were a real scramble , but we got the luck we deserved and it is good to win the derby games . |
| 21 | I said , ‘ Sure , ’ called the guys up , they flew down from Sydney and we played and it was just like we had n't stopped doing the pubs ; it felt real good . |
| 22 | ‘ Although those problems were resolved , and gradually we got the level of performance , we recognised that it was our customers ' perception of the service , rather than our own , which mattered . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When discussing differences in earnings between black and white workers , we noted that it was important to look at a number of factors , for example , the age structure of the two groups and the kind of industry in which they worked . |
| 25 | In the original report , however , we noted that it is not difficult to design , manufacture and market simple chip-based handhelds , especially straightforward spellcheckers . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We hid but it made no difference , they still found us . |
| 28 | In Section 6.3 , we showed that it is possible to pivot from any BFS to any other BFS through a sequence of BFSs . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , we heard that it 's all that Ian Brown will eat so we reckon it 's the secret of being dead thin and good looking ! ’ |
| 30 | We heard that it does not intend to cap any local authority . |