Example sentences of "we had [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon we had made a forced march around the local countryside with our rucksacks on . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He explained that we had made a grave error — it was Saturday afternoon . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We had observed a uniformed man standing there , on the inside . |
| 10 | Those were exciting days and as the money began to pour in we all felt we had joined a successful crusade . |
| 11 | We had very little experience in clothing design at that stage , although we had run a small experiment with Habitat called Clothes Line . |
| 12 | Every day we had tackled a different walk , each enriched by the gentle Gozitan kindness we net along the way . |
| 13 | ‘ If we had lost a single segment everyone could have been killed , ’ Mackenzie says . |
| 14 | Er secondly , land could be allocated to meet a range of needs in a variety of locations and after monitoring , if we had met a certain level of job targets , those jobs may be on a limited number of sites . |
| 15 | We had eaten a good dinner — among other things a golden bolster of an omelette bursting its seams with truffles — and drunk some excellent red wine of Cahors and afterwards a glass of that remarkable eau-de-vie of plums called Vieille Prune which is one of the great Dordogne products — another is the odd and delicious walnut oil with which , if you are lucky , you may get your salad dressed . |
| 16 | Remembering that a couple of kilometres back we had seen a huge moose lumbering across the road , I peered fearfully through a slit in my tent to see this massive reindeer with bloodshot eyes and antlers that appeared to be three metres across . |
| 17 | If we had proposed a separate profile component for knowledge about language , it might have been seen as having a weight ( in terms of content , teaching time and assessment ) which was disproportionate in relation to the English curriculum as a whole . |
| 18 | Our shares plummeted because the City felt we had taken a great risk . |
| 19 | One of them gesticulated to us and , using harsh , staccato Russian ( which neither of us understood ) and rather violent stabs into the air , made it very clear that we had taken a dangerous route over the ice and that we were very stupid indeed . |
| 20 | We had finished a big dinner in Chicago around midnight . |
| 21 | All these questions were dealt with fully during the course , so Derek and I felt that we had learnt a great deal of new and fascinating information that we just could n't have got out of books . |
| 22 | Founder and director Lesley Scott-Ordish hoped we had enjoyed a good night , and we had . |
| 23 | As before , he was concerned to hear that we had enjoyed a good flight to his native city , had found a good hotel and that we were managing to survive the bitter cold , the snow and the ice of a Canadian winter . |
| 24 | We had had a good dinner , and we were all in the mood for fun and games — all , that is , except Jackson . |
| 25 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 26 | We had had a superb day 's climbing , and to say his death was tragic is an understatement . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , I remember after we had had a big success at Covent Garden with Elektra he turned to me and said , ‘ You know , Birgit , for the first time in my career I get good notices here in London ! ’ |
| 28 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 29 | She was allowed to continue with her mending — she did not know that we had spread a thick layer of gum upon the chair and was surprised at the alacrity with which we saw to all her needs so that she should never move . |
| 30 | John Rhead arrived and , after only a few minutes , we knew we had found a genuine birder . |