Example sentences of "we had [vb pp] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had reached a position of stalemate — but a position which for the sake of the Government had to be settled . |
| 2 | On our first trip together we had visited a café of a very old-fashioned kind , called Cafeteria Varela Reposteria in Preciados , and I had noted an inscription saying En este lugar escribiõ sus mejores versos el gran poeta Emilio Carrere 1881–1947 . |
| 3 | it had been a great patrol during which we had made a lot of new friends , carried out a great deal of work en route and broken into completely new territory for the cutters . |
| 4 | From this , the idea was derived of ‘ patchwork pieces ’ , which then led to a demand for specific colours in the bags , ’ ‘ and suddenly we realized we had created a bit of a monster . ’ |
| 5 | We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip . |
| 6 | ‘ We had received a number of approaches . |
| 7 | ‘ We had received a number of complaints about bouncing cheques and made a few inquiries into the businessmen and their activities . |
| 8 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 9 | By the time that was five months old , I felt that we had achieved a bit of organisation in our lives and that I was in a position to offer ‘ something back ’ to the NCT . |
| 10 | On board was a Maltese deck passenger who boasted he had been in nine different prisons in England ; after we had sailed a friend of his was discovered stowed away in the chain locker . |
| 11 | We had seen a lot of people cry in our time , but this was the first time that Quigley had done us the honour . |
| 12 | We always went out in twos and threes , for obvious reasons , but all the same by the time we were approaching the field we had collected a following of about a dozen . |
| 13 | Michael McAdoo , the company 's chairman , said : ‘ We had put a lot of effort into the project before the theatre was bombed . |
| 14 | And we went up there and we had just we 'd , we took the labour rooms and er of course we had got a cup of tea with them you know ? |
| 15 | Whether or not horses understand landing procedure ( they do n't smoke or have to cope with seat-belts ) , it occurred to me that we had taken a couple of bites at the cherry on our approach — I could only guess how near we came to dismantling the gateway to India , for there are no windows in those vehicles . |
| 16 | We had finished a tour of night duty [ 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. ] and a telephone message came to hold us back . |
| 17 | It had been unnerving for Martin and we had wasted a lot of time , but we pushed on to the final ridge . |
| 18 | None of us would want to find that , at the end of our work , we had produced a piece of legislation that increased the delay in obtaining the approval necessary to build new railways . |
| 19 | For our last week in NZ and as a final fling , as it were , we had booked a number of events in the Wellington International Festival . |
| 20 | The interesting question is whether , if we had had a lot of tremendous tycoons who were interested in the arts , the story would be a different one ; we just have n't bred those sort of people in the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 21 | Inspector Dave Jenkinson , said : ’ We had had a lot of complaints about drivers with no lane discipline . |
| 22 | THE East Team played 18 games during our ten day stay in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and when we left St John for Quebec City we had established a lead of over 100 shots . |
| 23 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 24 | We had set a target of 50 tonnes per month maximum of caustic lost to drain and quickly met and indeed exceeded that . |