Example sentences of "the [noun] we had been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man gave a grunt , which was the permission we had been waiting for , and I ran all the way back to my flat to change and conduct the concert . |
| 2 | ‘ The particulars we had been given referred to an estate of 680 acres having four cottages and a stone house … |
| 3 | One of the things we had been told was to carry any valuables we had around with us so that they could n't go astray . |
| 4 | It felt like abandoning all the people we had been working with , whom we had been encouraging to organize and demand their rights . |
| 5 | It also did something to the plumbing , and it was decided not to keep us for the month we had been promised , but to billet us out to houses nearby . |
| 6 | we approximately the subject we had been looking at for some time so I approximately , nineteen eighty eight , nineteen eighty nine |
| 7 | I suspected that the restaurant was cheap and that this was the reason we had been guided here . |
| 8 | He asked members to support the motion so that the Attorney General as a member of the Government and as leader of this profession could convey to the Government our sense of disgust at the way we had been treated for so long ( sustained applause ) . |
| 9 | We all went on doing the jobs we had been trained for . |