Example sentences of "we [vb past] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were all aware we 'd made a total cock-up . |
| 2 | And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there . |
| 3 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 5 | We 'd got a good relationship with the council . ’ |
| 6 | I thought we 'd got a good team . |
| 7 | And I suppose if we 'd got a clean sheet , and we started again , we 'd do it differently . |
| 8 | He told us we 'd got a yellow streak a yard wide down our backs . |
| 9 | ‘ After we 'd had a nice dinner together , we 'd go into Richard 's studio and we 'd put on music . |
| 10 | So anyway we 'd had a good look round and this ch church warden said hey you 'd better go and get some seats cos it 's going to get . |
| 11 | Erm , on appendix B , erm there is an item which erm members of the committee erm will know about very well it 's the laboratory services that we give and have a great relate to them , erm the item goes under seven I believe , the figures there have dropped , is that because we 'd had a successful income erm there , we 've got a hundred and ten thousand for both up ninety two and ninety three and ninety , sorry ninety two three and ninety three ninety four , is it that er , could we know or are we estimating that we 're going to get a nice income because we have been told in earlier reports that this is quite a good slice of income to us and those figures are amended accordingly is that right ? |
| 12 | Our own particular case is our case went to the High Court some three hundred thousand pounds , when perhaps if we 'd had a dedicated pensions act setting out what could and could not be done , that would never have happened . |
| 13 | Although we we 'd had a modest week in terms of routes , we 'd found enough delight and challenge in the sunlit silence of the valley and the peaks — and now we knew the full potential of the place . |
| 14 | We 'd had a little car before he got there . |
| 15 | We 'd had a huge rally of 10,000 people for Ronald Reagan at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and I was flying on to Los Angeles with one of the co-ordinators the next morning . |
| 16 | Actually the tea shop benefited slightly , because we 'd introduced a new line of rock cakes that week , and some rioters came round to buy them to throw at middle class people . ’ |
| 17 | And after I 'd explained , and we 'd laughed a good deal , and taken off each others ’ wet clothes , it was . |
| 18 | At last we 'd sunk a decent putt . |
| 19 | One afternoon we had made a forced march around the local countryside with our rucksacks on . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He explained that we had made a grave error — it was Saturday afternoon . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We had observed a uniformed man standing there , on the inside . |
| 28 | Those were exciting days and as the money began to pour in we all felt we had joined a successful crusade . |
| 29 | We had very little experience in clothing design at that stage , although we had run a small experiment with Habitat called Clothes Line . |
| 30 | Every day we had tackled a different walk , each enriched by the gentle Gozitan kindness we net along the way . |