Example sentences of "we had [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had heard of a municipal university , and of a university of the East Midlands , and newcomers were welcomed by the Chairman of the College Council who , I think , was also a City or County Councillor . |
| 2 | We had emerged from a private wall into the crazy world of summer skiers , no doubt fresh from their BMWs in the car park below , and bemused by the intrusion of this odd , dilapidated pair of chastened alpinists . |
| 3 | So we had to go through a whole charade of auditioning a second guitarist . |
| 4 | In assuming that it may be rational to be a sceptic about value alone , we had stopped at an uncomfortable halfway house between philosophy and common sense , between the pure thinker who doubts everything and the plain man who questions neither what he sees nor what he likes or dislikes . |
| 5 | In the end we had to settle for a hurried and depressing buffet in the North British Hotel , with a menu which would not have been out of place at a Sunday-school picnic . |
| 6 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 7 | So we decided we had to look for a new singer . |
| 8 | We had driven up a muddy track for ten miles and had arrived at a completely ruined farmhouse with no windows or doors , set into the slope of a mountain , looking over a marshy plain . |
| 9 | All at once , I sat up as if electrified , for we had driven into a large corrugated iron compound , and there were British soldiers everywhere ! |
| 10 | Here the footpath ended so we had to walk for a few hundred yards along a stretch of country road . |
| 11 | For by now we had arrived at a big army hut by the side of the road . |
| 12 | We sometimes write down the stories and one summer with other children we put on a play we had adapted from a Russian folktale in Folktales of Many Lands . |
| 13 | We had moored off a deserted cay rimmed with a beach of clear sand above which the first stars were pricking the warm sky , while , beneath Wavebreaker 's bimini cover , half-moon ice cubes clinked in crystal glasses . |
| 14 | Separation and divorce became inevitable ; it was a ‘ good divorce — non-violent and non-tumultuous … we had come to a real separating of the ways and it was obvious there was only one thing to do and we did it very simply . ’ |
| 15 | We had proved in a recent elections and even in the general election , that where the pensioners ' movement was strong , the election results were more positive for candidates in support of our aims . |