Example sentences of "we had [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now we had reached a delectable small pool hidden away in willow trees : Willow Pool . |
| 2 | We had to sit a three hour paper of questions about all our three years work in Sociology . |
| 3 | One afternoon we had made a forced march around the local countryside with our rucksacks on . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He explained that we had made a grave error — it was Saturday afternoon . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Very tired but excited that we had covered a third of our journey . |
| 9 | We had created a colourful , well-lit , attractive , atmospheric setting out of virtually nothing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | If we had to cite a bad point , it would be the hard-to-reach drain plug on the rear axle housing . |
| 13 | We had devised a new social security system which was intended to last . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We had observed a uniformed man standing there , on the inside . |
| 16 | Those were exciting days and as the money began to pour in we all felt we had joined a successful crusade . |
| 17 | We had very little experience in clothing design at that stage , although we had run a small experiment with Habitat called Clothes Line . |
| 18 | Every day we had tackled a different walk , each enriched by the gentle Gozitan kindness we net along the way . |
| 19 | ‘ If we had lost a single segment everyone could have been killed , ’ Mackenzie says . |
| 20 | During our daily rounds at the harbour front contacting the nakodas , we had met a young , strongly built Chinese man supervising the loading of cargo for Java . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | so we had to take a hundred and twenty five pound off what we owed |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was on a trip to Frankfurt with a mixed load of several 2,000lb bombs and the varied load of experimental PFF flares and early target indicator devices ; Bennett always insisted that we had to carry a full load of the hurtful . |
| 25 | The way the vehicle was hit , there was one person in the back so we had to do a 3-door conversion and made a 2-door car into a 3 , so it took longer . |
| 26 | We had to do a three hour |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | when they wore thin on the end and we had to put a new link in we never threw the two halves of the link away , we pointed them and made them into staples . |
| 29 | 1976 , it may be remembered , was the year of the great drought , and we had to wait a frustrating three months until there was rain in sufficient quantity and enough water in the river to try it out . |
| 30 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |