Example sentences of "[noun] we had been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the end of July we had been visited by General Gough . |
| 2 | The forecast from Livorno has spoken of increasing winds and I laid out all the chain before we rowed ashore ( feeling curiously British and eccentric using oars among so many outboards ) for the pasta and wine we had been promising ourselves since mid-morning . |
| 3 | I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much . |
| 4 | At each point we had been required to identify pictures of tanks , strip weapons in the dark , answer questions on mines and explosives , and demonstrate our radio technique . |
| 5 | ‘ The particulars we had been given referred to an estate of 680 acres having four cottages and a stone house … |
| 6 | ‘ For years we had been trying to lower and streamline the bonnets of front-engined cars and the mid-engined configuration allowed us to obtain an extremely low nose , deeply recessed between sculpted front wings that sloped down to the headlights , which were contained in a plexiglass fairing to continue the line . |
| 7 | For many years we had been permitted to lay out and examine wreckage in a couple of hangars at RAE Farnborough ; but we were strictly visitors , not always welcome with our requirements for hangar space , and of course our needs were always secondary to those of our host RAE . |
| 8 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 9 | One afternoon we had been taken for a walk up to the top of the mountain behind the camp , which had been good exercise ; from the top I had been able to see the sea . |
| 10 | For the past hour we had been standing at the top of a Norfolk heath in swirling snow . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We decided to do one last detour before heading south and remembering advice we had been given , we headed past Kirkenes towards the Pasvik Elv , the valley and river which form the border between Norway and Russia . |
| 14 | It felt like abandoning all the people we had been working with , whom we had been encouraging to organize and demand their rights . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | we approximately the subject we had been looking at for some time so I approximately , nineteen eighty eight , nineteen eighty nine |
| 17 | During our journey we had been taken to Sherwood Forest , where we had a short while to look around and similarly at Chatsworth house . |
| 18 | I suspected that the restaurant was cheap and that this was the reason we had been guided here . |
| 19 | On the debit side we have dropped one day on the calving interval to 376 days , although not a disaster we had been trying to improve that but our heifers are calving at 28 months instead of two years three months . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | We all went on doing the jobs we had been trained for . |