Example sentences of "we had [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had reached the famous gannetry . |
| 2 | We had reached the last door . |
| 3 | Not long after we had reached the Old parsonage and climbed the stairs to Michael 's rooms , Father D'Arcy arrived . |
| 4 | We had to sit a three hour paper of questions about all our three years work in Sociology . |
| 5 | One afternoon we had made a forced march around the local countryside with our rucksacks on . |
| 6 | The hotel had much to keep youngsters occupied , but by day three we realised we had made a bad mistake in taking such a young child skiing . |
| 7 | He explained that we had made a grave error — it was Saturday afternoon . |
| 8 | ‘ But who knows what would have happened if we had made the early breakthrough tonight ? |
| 9 | We were convinced we had witnessed a terrible accident and hurried to the police station at Lochcarron to report the incident , there to be reassured that there had not been a crash , and gently rebuked for assuming there had been . |
| 10 | Originally , we had planned a National Certificate programme in Accounting and Information Studies , but when the general SVQ was announced , we decided to combine the two , so our students will get both awards . |
| 11 | The readership survey confirmed our belief that we had created a high quality magazine , with many readers saying they found it attractive , colourful and easy to read . |
| 12 | Will he confirm that if we had adopted a scatter-gun approach to benefits , as the Labour Government did , the substantial improvements in help for the disabled since 1979 would not have been possible ? |
| 13 | But once we had digested the British skills , we took them over . |
| 14 | We found we had done the right thing : Mr Murray was partial to a wee whiskey . |
| 15 | By the end of the lesson we had completed the sixth month . |
| 16 | If we had to cite a bad point , it would be the hard-to-reach drain plug on the rear axle housing . |
| 17 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
| 18 | The seventy strong press and media corps were in the rear of the Prime Minister 's plane and we had arranged a special area and platform for them in the terminal . |
| 19 | On the fifth dawn we hurried on deck to confirm my certainty that at last we had rounded the south-western point of Sulawesi , and had a clear run north to Makassar . |
| 20 | We had received the full blast of his whimsicality the minute we arrived at the ancient wood-frame rectory , modernised in 1812 ( according to the brochure ) by the great-grandson of Sir Christopher Wren . |
| 21 | We had observed a uniformed man standing there , on the inside . |
| 22 | Those were exciting days and as the money began to pour in we all felt we had joined a successful crusade . |
| 23 | We had very little experience in clothing design at that stage , although we had run a small experiment with Habitat called Clothes Line . |
| 24 | Every day we had tackled a different walk , each enriched by the gentle Gozitan kindness we net along the way . |
| 25 | ‘ If we had lost a single segment everyone could have been killed , ’ Mackenzie says . |
| 26 | Er secondly , land could be allocated to meet a range of needs in a variety of locations and after monitoring , if we had met a certain level of job targets , those jobs may be on a limited number of sites . |
| 27 | He had no news of John , but once we had overcome an initial awkwardness , he tried to tell us about his experience . |
| 28 | So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ One was we had to take an international outlook rather than being a purely British company . |
| 30 | We had eaten a good dinner — among other things a golden bolster of an omelette bursting its seams with truffles — and drunk some excellent red wine of Cahors and afterwards a glass of that remarkable eau-de-vie of plums called Vieille Prune which is one of the great Dordogne products — another is the odd and delicious walnut oil with which , if you are lucky , you may get your salad dressed . |