Example sentences of "we had [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We had to sit a three hour paper of questions about all our three years work in Sociology .
2 One afternoon we had made a forced march around the local countryside with our rucksacks on .
3 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 .
4 He explained that we had made a grave error — it was Saturday afternoon .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 ?
9 If we had to cite a bad point , it would be the hard-to-reach drain plug on the rear axle housing .
10 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 .
11 We had observed a uniformed man standing there , on the inside .
12 Those were exciting days and as the money began to pour in we all felt we had joined a successful crusade .
13 We had very little experience in clothing design at that stage , although we had run a small experiment with Habitat called Clothes Line .
14 Every day we had tackled a different walk , each enriched by the gentle Gozitan kindness we net along the way .
15 ‘ If we had lost a single segment everyone could have been killed , ’ Mackenzie says .
16 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 .
17 He had no news of John , but once we had overcome an initial awkwardness , he tried to tell us about his experience .
18 ‘ One was we had to take an international outlook rather than being a purely British company .
19 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 .
20 It was on a trip to Frankfurt with a mixed load of several 2,000lb bombs and the varied load of experimental PFF flares and early target indicator devices ; Bennett always insisted that we had to carry a full load of the hurtful .
21 The way the vehicle was hit , there was one person in the back so we had to do a 3-door conversion and made a 2-door car into a 3 , so it took longer .
22 We had to do a three hour
23 Remembering that a couple of kilometres back we had seen a huge moose lumbering across the road , I peered fearfully through a slit in my tent to see this massive reindeer with bloodshot eyes and antlers that appeared to be three metres across .
24 when they wore thin on the end and we had to put a new link in we never threw the two halves of the link away , we pointed them and made them into staples .
25 We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’
26 Before before we could get nationalization , we had to get a Labour government .
27 If we had proposed a separate profile component for knowledge about language , it might have been seen as having a weight ( in terms of content , teaching time and assessment ) which was disproportionate in relation to the English curriculum as a whole .
28 Our shares plummeted because the City felt we had taken a great risk .
29 One of them gesticulated to us and , using harsh , staccato Russian ( which neither of us understood ) and rather violent stabs into the air , made it very clear that we had taken a dangerous route over the ice and that we were very stupid indeed .
30 We had finished a big dinner in Chicago around midnight .
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