Example sentences of "we had [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The next day we had to report to the huge , ugly , frightening , hideous abattoir man who , in case you did n't know , lives , actually lives three streets away from us ! |
| 2 | There , I would dissect the brains into the same crudely defined regions we had adopted for the imprinting studies and do the biochemistry . |
| 3 | Bush droned on about good and evil , right and wrong , Hitler , Munich , appeasement , using all the same phrases that most of us thought we had heard for the last time , after the revolutions of 1989 . |
| 4 | Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months . |
| 5 | ‘ He thought that as good a case could be made for our efforts in Korea — and probably a better one — as almost anything we had done in the foreign field . ’ |
| 6 | It was long enough to need a semaphore to signal from one end to the other , dark enough so you would never have seen the flags , and so narrow we had to squeeze past the single bed by the door to reach the open land before the next one . |
| 7 | I find found that absolutely incredible and I thought it was bizarre to say the least , the procedure we had to go through the other er evening erm with two hours of acrimonious debate er a break while you consulted er the officers before we got to some er sensible way forward which is now incorporated in this amendment er to spend a hundred thousand pounds on actually trying to trace . |
| 8 | We had to go on the Green Line bus . ’ |
| 9 | We had met on the previous Wednesday , to discuss business matters . |
| 10 | So we had to go to the park where we had met under the protective shade of a friendly tree . |
| 11 | The practical reason was that because we had collaborated with the Russian museums for earlier exhibitions we were able to make an agreement and bring together our collections with theirs . |
| 12 | We had asked for the additional cost of providing an extension of the present service to the Cuiken area of Penicuik . |
| 13 | The Adams first visited Scarp in 1963 , ‘ It was as though we had disembarked on the flowery slopes of Heaven ’ . |
| 14 | The Adams first visited Scarp in 1963 , ‘ It was as though we had disembarked on the flowery slopes of Heaven ’ . |
| 15 | For example , if we had assumed in the above model that where is a fraction , then the optimum value for γ 2 would be a complex function of and . |
| 16 | Perhaps symbolic is the typical picket line of today ; people in high spirits shouting slogans and singing to the beat of a salsa band as they march defiantly under the eyes of the police contrast with the solemn processions of strikers we had seen in the 1940s , walking through the streets in silence and in proper order , as if to create any disturbance was a mark of poor breeding . |
| 17 | She was part Mulholland on her mother 's side and she knew we had fallen from the middle class or , to be precise , that her mother had married down , even though she loved her father . |
| 18 | We had turned off the main passageway into a narrow corridor leading to the stairs of our room , when our way was suddenly blocked by two savage creatures who seemed to step out of the darkness . |
| 19 | We had moved into the new factory in June 1979 and the first effect of our association with GEC was an input of capital to purchase badly needed equipment . |
| 20 | We had gone round the other arm of the terrace , into the shadow cast by the corner of the bedroom wall . |
| 21 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 22 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 23 | So we had to wait for the next bus , which was six o'clock . |
| 24 | She unhooked her cloak collar as we had to wait at the outer door of Marcus whilst two porters wheeled out an empty accident trolley . |
| 25 | To find out who was correct , we had to wait until the following morning and our debriefing with the major . |
| 26 | We had to wait until the next day before we got the results . |
| 27 | Elizabeth I , whose delicate long fingers feature so prominently in her portraits , started a fashion for lily-white skin , but we had to wait until the 1880s for the advent of polished nails in Britain . |
| 28 | It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ? |
| 29 | There w–s no sense that we had passed from the holy world of church to secular life : there was a wholeness and a holiness about the whole experience which is difficult to describe . |
| 30 | Fast motion can be used to express erotic tension and desire , if the purpose is comic rather than romantic — if we had laughed at the romantic yearnings of Cecile or even Frankie , the film would be failing , even though the treatment of these themes is throughout as much comic as tragic — ‘ bitter-sweet ’ seems to be the compound word , or better still the mot juste is ‘ douce-amère ’ . |