Example sentences of "we had [be] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we got in touch with the Colonel a surprisingly easy task , the military communications network superbly efficient — it turned out we had been landed at the wrong port . |
| 2 | For the past hour we had been standing at the top of a Norfolk heath in swirling snow . |
| 3 | ‘ If we had been sitting at the bottom I could accept my fate , but we are seventh and have lost only one of the last eight games . ’ |
| 4 | Hamilton greeted him with emotional thanks and immediately surrendered our papers : our little Nansen passport , our Portuguese visa , even the ticket coupon with which we had been issued at the harbour of Salerno . |
| 5 | We had been told at the time he had been in trouble before . |