Example sentences of "we had [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By simply developing along the lines we had already established with the lesser known young contemporaries . |
| 2 | " We had already acted on the letter by meeting the cheque , and you may feel that my fears came rather late in the day . |
| 3 | Corresponding in their insignificance to the islets of the sea , two small clumps of trees , one on each side of the only fault in the impeccable joint , marked the mouth of the river Meinam we had just left on the first preparatory stage of our homeward journey ; and , far back on the inland level , a larger and loftier mass , the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda , was the only thing on which the eye could rest from the vain task of exploring the monotonous sweep of the horizon ( 4 ) . |
| 4 | One night — I think it was the night before Christmas Eve — we had just returned to the cottage after a hard day next door doing some of the ‘ few finishing-off jobs ’ Nigel had earlier specified . |
| 5 | ‘ Because we had just switched from the Lothian District League to the National League I thought it was a good time to concentrate on coaching , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Actually it started to rain and when we had just got in the then we had to get out again . |
| 7 | In fact it was only a minute or so from the M27 and we had just passed over the Queen Elizabeth Bridge at Dartford . |
| 8 | Although this seemed a wise decision at the time , it was anything but wise in the long run , as we had not reckoned on the dramatic rise in house prices . |
| 9 | I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite . |
| 10 | He told us to fill in this form , saying we had not gone through the right channels . ’ |
| 11 | From farms we had both come to the University and the world of ideas . |
| 12 | And as we drove away , we had n't travelled down the road very far when my wife looked at me in a certain way … and I knew that she wanted Low Birk Hatt as much as me . |
| 13 | They thought we had made a fool out of the preacher and were sorry we had n't ducked out the door as they would have done . |
| 14 | We would n't have got the cash to set up Headline if we had n't started with the intention to be commercial . ’ |
| 15 | You know this K L M deal , so obviously we had n't got under the finger until called me in almost desperation |
| 16 | We had barely got off the ground again when he grabbed the undercarriage lever and shouted into his microphone " this puts the undercarriage up , " followed by the most hysterical laughter . |
| 17 | With her sophisticated electronics and sleek grey hull capable of speeds far in excess of anything we had previously experienced in the Cutter Service , it was an exciting prospect for our crews when Alert was commissioned in 1977 . |
| 18 | Such is fame : our exploit brought us international mention with a few lines by the Canadian Press but our feat was not mentioned in Robert Ripley 's ‘ Believe It or Not ’ column , and we had never heard of the Guinness Book of Records in those early days . |
| 19 | We did n't know that we were asking for impossible things , because we had never worked in the record business before — and we 'd get them . |
| 20 | Having delivered the injured Bulgarian to safety we had then returned to the ascent , hoping to catch our party . |
| 21 | There would be a massive archive somewhere if we had ever lived under the Stasi or the Gestapo . |
| 22 | In the confusion , our film , which we had dutifully sent to the group 's London management as promised , got lent to the BBC . |
| 23 | We had recently finished with the Douglas car company but wanted to keep the series topical and so developed a new setting in which our hero uses his amoral cunning to preserve part of Britain 's disappearing heritage ’ . |
| 24 | When we had all assembled for the first plenary session to approve the agenda , I was all ready with my dissenting speech when it was announced by the Secretary General that the additional items would be included in the agenda if the other matters already there were completed in time to consider additional ones . |
| 25 | While everyone else had been trying to solve this problem by heating … to millions of degrees , we had apparently stumbled on the solution involving low temperatures instead . ’ |
| 26 | Close by squatted a very young Tominah whom we had often seen behind the older priests but had never talked to . |
| 27 | We found Dod 's van in the NCP and I explained to Kim that as he only had one passenger seat , the two of us had better travel in the cold and bare , unheated back along with Dod 's drum kit . |