Example sentences of "[conj] we had [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exactly where we had been swimming that morning . |
| 2 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 3 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 4 | While the recovery is a little bit slower that we had been anticipating when I left GM Europe , it 's not very much different than what we had expected . |
| 5 | I remembered being in the weight-training room with two club-mates , Trevor Wade and Clifford Mamba , a few weeks earlier and we had been discussing sprinting . |
| 6 | On the afternoon of the second day , we put one of the Harris 's hawks on a creance , as we would have if we had been training it , and tried a spot of flying . |
| 7 | I 'm firmly convinced that if we had been operating under the old style of management , making a consensus decision , the clinicians would have got to their clinical representative and said there 's no way we want that — we want everything twice as big and gold-plated taps because patients will die , etc. , and their rep would say , " I 'm sorry but it 's completely unacceptable to my colleagues ' . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Looking back , I find it interesting that our exchanges were consistently humorous , as if we had been rehearsing for a Wit and Wisdom contest . |
| 10 | The 135 hp engine was used to operating on 80 octane fuel but we had been using 130 octane avgas . |
| 11 | ‘ It did n't hurt too much because we had been training twice a week for over two months . |
| 12 | The time difference between London and Mexico City is six hours , and because we had been travelling with the sun , it was still quite high in the sky as we descended into the sepia haze that hung over the whole flat expanse of what had once been a great lake . |
| 13 | it 's a little disappointing because we had been lying insecond place and that would have stood us in good stead for the rest of the competition |
| 14 | While we had been lording it in the Solent , Alert had been making a name for herself in Shetland as a stand in for Venturous . |
| 15 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 16 | I remember one instance , after we had been making love , when he took my hands very tenderly and turned them this way and that , pressing them gently , kissing the palms and the wrists . |
| 17 | One day , after we had been working together all afternoon without much success , Dana without warning lay back on the bed , his head on the pillow . |
| 18 | To confirm his fears , when we had been driving out of Tangier docks late at night , having only just arrived on African soil , a group of men had tried to stop us . |
| 19 | The young man admitted in due course , when we had been driving for an hour , that he did not know the way and was totally lost . |
| 20 | One night during our charter , when we had been sipping whisky under the stars , Senator Crowninshield had told me that no fat man could ever again become President of the United States . |