Example sentences of "we [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as being a mate of Yeti 's at school we worked together at Whiteleys , the department store in Queensway , on Thursday evenings after school and all day Saturday — for which we got paid the grand total of 36 shillings or £1.80 today . |
| 2 | I thought we 'd seen the last of him , after what he did to Jennifer . ’ |
| 3 | That low , dishonest decade was when we broke free of our parents , banished the Fifties , discovered that we 'd missed the Sixties , and tried to make the best of it with an orgy of revolting clothes , tasteless music and formless anomie . |
| 4 | It was late in the afternoon now , later than I thought it would be , and shadows were long on the grass before us , so that by the time we 'd travelled the leafy lane to Flanders Hall and had followed the road past the Grange to West Burton village green , it was early evening . |
| 5 | If we 'd done the wrong things at the wrong time , it could have been the end of Cowley . |
| 6 | Then he kissed me , and for a moment I remembered a play we were in together , when we 'd done the same sort of kiss , starting with his hand under my chin and just our lips lightly together , and then developing into a full clinch ; but by the time we were deeply embraced I had forgotten the play and could think only that this was like coming home . |
| 7 | Joe did n't speak again until we 'd finished the second stage . |
| 8 | We 'd approached the remote , uninhabited Welsh island , twelve miles off the coast , in the Cubango . |
| 9 | I mean , if I were to sell my house now supposing somebody came galloping in along before Christmas ooh ooh I want the house on the first of Feb and they 'd come and they 'd see the house and they say yes I want it , want it , want it and it was plain that they were going to want it and we started to talk money , as soon as we 'd got the solid block of money I want one O two you er estate agent tells me I can get ninety seven between ninety five and ninety seven say they offer me ninety six |
| 10 | We have all wished that we 'd had the perfect retort at some time , but most of us can only think of something smart about three days later . |
| 11 | We 'd had the odd fling even while she was supposed to be engaged to him — the night of the fire was when we started it . |
| 12 | Sally confesses : ‘ We realized , after we 'd had the dividing wall rebuilt between the front room and the back parlour , that it was impossible to get in or out of the back parlour , since we 'd also had the doorway closed off and made into a display case for the tortoiseshell medical implements Peter collects . |
| 13 | We thought we 'd had the last laugh when we got to the play-off finals against Charlton but he was an even bigger pain in the arse after that . |
| 14 | I kept making the point on Saturday here at Lane Martin , that I did n't think that erm we 'd had the last of the goals as they kept er popping in at both ends , and I 'm sure though we 've had three with a little over half an hour played here , we have n't seen the last of the goals here either . |
| 15 | The change in net debt , er worth referring worth mentioning minus three point three million that much worse would have been significantly lower thirty five million or so lower if we 'd had the same year end exchange rate as we did in nineteen ninety one . |
| 16 | We 'd decorated the outside and we 'd nearly finished . |
| 17 | This process was one that we 'd enjoyed the public inquiry process for over fifty years and it would be most helpful if the minister at some point in his er later remarks perhaps could take this opportunity to tell the house that the Conservatives do not intend to side step the public inquiry stage of any future boundary proposals , European or I 'd be glad to give up . |
| 18 | If we 'd needed the final touch of homicidal brio , this would have had to be it . |
| 19 | We cut into the same ventricle twice , believing we 'd found the other one . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought I would n't mention that until we 'd left the pea-green incorruptible behind . |
| 21 | We had reached the Palestinian front line . |
| 22 | We had reached the famous gannetry . |
| 23 | We had reached the last door . |
| 24 | Not long after we had reached the Old parsonage and climbed the stairs to Michael 's rooms , Father D'Arcy arrived . |
| 25 | ‘ But who knows what would have happened if we had made the early breakthrough tonight ? |
| 26 | But once we had digested the British skills , we took them over . |
| 27 | We found we had done the right thing : Mr Murray was partial to a wee whiskey . |
| 28 | We had done the unforgivable , striking back , disabling a Famlio ship , maybe killing Famlio people . |
| 29 | He was not told which chick was in which group until we had completed the entire first series of experiments ( this is our normal lab practice — where possible , especially when two of us are involved in the experiment , to run the work ‘ blind ’ until after the data are analysed , to avoid the possibility of unconscious bias ) . |
| 30 | By the end of the lesson we had completed the sixth month . |