Example sentences of "we had [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had planned an easier second day with some early climbing , then we had decided to follow the contours around and up Mount Cedric , ending with a descent to Lake Rotoroa . |
| 2 | We had hoped to hold the Summer Open Evening at the Castle but after-hours security problems made this impossible . |
| 3 | We had hoped to announce the new scheme for consultation today , but that has been delayed until tomorrow or perhaps the end of the week . |
| 4 | ‘ After we lost in Moscow , I ushered the team back into the locker room and locked the door before any administrators could get in and give them a load of bull about how well we had done to run the mighty red machine so close . |
| 5 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 6 | Maybe ‘ The Queen Is Dead ’ is better ( only maybe ) but by then we had grown to expect the remarkable as a matter of course . |
| 7 | Then , just as we had begun to enjoy the blissful peace and calm of spring , the wedding season reached its climax . |
| 8 | By 1988 we had begun to adopt the double stapling technique for ileoanal anastomosis ( anal transection with a transverse linear stapler : RL30 ( Ethicon ) and the end to end circular stapler with detachable anvil : CEEA ( Autosuture ) ) , incorporating a stapling technique ( linear staple cutter PLC 75 ( Ehicon ) ) for pouch construction . |
| 9 | Royal Bank Chief Executive Dr George Mathewson said , ‘ Following hard on the heels of our announcement in April that we had agreed to acquire the Boston Five , this is another encouraging step towards our strategic aim of deriving more than 10 per cent of our earnings from the USA . |
| 10 | The day before we were going to fly we were putting the airplane together — it was a Sunday — and we found out that we had forgotten to make the flanges that held the tailpipe to the airplane . |
| 11 | We had come to see the Manx shear waters . |
| 12 | We had come to see the tomb of Isidora . |
| 13 | By 1973 we were finally able to convince ourselves and , I believe , the rest of the research ‘ community , interested in the problem that the biochemical changes were indeed an aspect of learning and not any of what we had come to call the concomitants of learning , such as motor activity or visual experience . |
| 14 | So , at the very last moment of our very first film , we nearly got the fire we did n't want , and we began to feel more sanguine about the pyromania we had tried to incite the night before . |