Example sentences of "we had [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er I remember we used to get the gas then , and er that was at a time they were used have an electric lamp we had had one in the stall , you see ? |
| 2 | Soon we had lost him in the dark , so we stopped and sat down , breathing heavily , to rest . |
| 3 | But , although we had tested it during the day , the drop in the temperature at night was so great that the oil in the mechanism became sluggish and thick . |
| 4 | In trying to sort out this problem I was driven to delving through old logbooks , and it was reading them that made me realise just how often we had based ourselves in the area . |
| 5 | The cylinders were causing minor explosions and we had to tackle it from the outside , using the protection of adjoining buildings and cars . |
| 6 | We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings . |
| 7 | Then the machine started printing lines all over the paper and we had to send someone into the shops to remove all the faulty rolls . ’ |
| 8 | We had taken them with the aforementioned pinch of salt . |
| 9 | in the information so we had to we had to assume one for the purpose of public consultation but we said that the final decision on standards would be taken er in another time . |
| 10 | No longer were we ‘ engagé volontaires ’ , who could be treated as nothings — we had proved ourselves to the instructors on our course , and henceforth they would treat us as legionnaires and expect us to behave as such . |
| 11 | And then we had to tell her in the end ! |
| 12 | This song appealed especially , as we had filched it from the Germans . |