Example sentences of "we had [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had reached level ground so winching was relatively easy . |
| 2 | If we had selected different base categories , we could have ended up with negative values of d . |
| 3 | By contrast , the bird mentioned in ( 19 ) must be one selected from a group present to the mind of the speaker in the situation of utterance ; this adjective can not be non-restrictive : ( 19 ) the largest parrot made a good supper for the expedition that evening The extraction set in this case might be the parrots we had shot that day . |
| 4 | Indeed , an extraction set may not be based on the denotation of any noun explicitly mentioned at all ; an equally valid extraction set for ( 19 ) might be the creatures we had shot that day . |
| 5 | We had developed this principle by joining lumps of plastic explosive together with some machine gun cartridges to make a simple anti-personnel charge . |
| 6 | We had made good time and had to ease speed to avoid closing the island in darkness . |
| 7 | By June we had made sufficient progress for me to tell the House of Commons that we intended to move against the ‘ frozen ’ pension . |
| 8 | We had decided this part would be tough , and for once we were right . |
| 9 | For more than a week we had suffered high-pressure gloom in the south of England but on the day of my flight we enjoyed 8/8 blue with not a bump in the air — Wing Commander 's weather ! |
| 10 | Among all our other irresistible attractions we had advertised free fishing in the River Meloch and the millpond , and a prospective holiday-maker asked , over the telephone , what kind of fish were to be found there . |
| 11 | Everyone has a smile and we all wanted to tell what we had done that day or planned for the next . |
| 12 | during the break , after we had done this segment of the film and had gone into the canteen for lunch , all the people who had been working on the film were whistling the song . |
| 13 | We had studied some navigation but now had the chance to try it out in more detail . |
| 14 | Holmes went on to tell them about what we had seen that morning . |
| 15 | When our first Report on the primary stages was submitted to Mr Baker at the end of September 1988 , he felt that we had given insufficient emphasis to the teaching of grammar . |
| 16 | Once this had been achieved , and we had given each other that little nod of recognition with which one acknowledges an intellectual equal , I moved on to the question that really interested me , which was how Alison came to know Thomas Carter in the first place . |
| 17 | We rushed out of the building and started running along the street , hardly knowing where we were or where we were going , until we felt we had put enough distance between us and the reception . |
| 18 | Ultimately we were given that assurance and er we were quite proud of the fact that , you know , the members had gone along with us on the proviso that we had got that principle you know , to establish . |
| 19 | A day-trip from Phuket had only whetted our appetite and we had left that tourist ghetto by local bus and moved into a hot and grubby Chinese hotel in Phang Nga town . |
| 20 | Together with some other Christian communities , we had bought some land outside the city and some 300 families went to live and farm there , It was called " El Paraiso " and was organized as a co-operative with all the work and profits shared , It was my idea of a truly authentic community . |
| 21 | ‘ I knew that whatever I was producing , I was meant to have : that somehow we had chosen each other . |
| 22 | We had experienced great difficulty in procuring bearers and mules , since a small war was raging in valleys and hills . |
| 23 | The reason this figure was produced is erm because one of the comments we had back from the other induction courses er Gareth , the reason we had produced this video was erm structure you 've never shown it , so it 's not necessarily tongue in cheek but it is a strictly sales structure but it will give you a clearer idea of our guide what to do to the role plays this morning , Saturday and tomorrow . |
| 24 | We had paid some money to the police to look after us and they were also taking money from the journalists , and giving us their news , and ours to them ! |
| 25 | If we had paid more attention to what the Japanese were doing we would perhaps not be so subject to their products as we are . |
| 26 | I thing the money we received from one or two gigs equalled what we had earned all year in Britain . |
| 27 | ‘ When we visited the Ukraine , we had had great difficulty in explaining what a piper looks and sounds like , ’ said Peter . |
| 28 | In Opposition we had had great fun pursuing Bill Rodgers on the standard of the baked beans and the quality of the fried cod . |
| 29 | ‘ We would not , I believe , if we had had that situation , have had the strength to deal with the Falklands , with Iraq and with the economic difficulties that we had in the early 1980s , ’ he said . |
| 30 | It did n't seem to me the way to behave towards someone with whom you had shared a good many midnight hours , swopping confidences and generally letting your hair down , not to mention the many other evenings when we had had such fun with Henry and Jimmy , and I felt rather aggrieved at being treated this way . |