Example sentences of "we had [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Catley , the National Fund-raising Manager for the Macmillan Nurse Appeal , which is Johnson Matthey 's Charity of the Year asked what events we had planned in order to raise funds for this most worthy of charities . |
| 2 | Apart from the pouring rain , we had to contend with mist — luckily we were on a clear path . |
| 3 | I suggested that , in any case , it might be wise to postpone going away until we had heard from M. Chaillot regarding the ‘ Chansons de Mani ’ . |
| 4 | I felt that although what we had done in Orange had been severe and shitty , in choosing to go to Calvi and the Airborne regiment , I was letting myself in for treatment and discipline I could n't imagine . |
| 5 | That were just the temporary passes for the motorway that we had to return to department . |
| 6 | It is as though we had to talk in order to reassure ourselves that we were living . |
| 7 | We had yearned for supremacy and now had too much of it too easily . |
| 8 | In the senior school we had to go into school Saturday morning anyway ! |
| 9 | We had to go to school for we were young . |
| 10 | So , because we were in the A A he said you could have a ba , and we had to go to court , we had a summons for court , for careless driving , your dad and your dad said oh so A A said you could have barrister , or our insurers said we could have a barrister our insurers , not the one with we 're with now Norman , he was to do all the , said we could have this barrister and it was at Liverpool Crown Court and , it was n't till a , and I was alright we we just got a bit of a shock , you know , we could drive the home it was the wing and what not . |
| 11 | We were afraid , but we had to go on shore . |
| 12 | He said we had to pray in church , not out in the woods . |
| 13 | I half slept , then woke as we sped by the rest house where we had stopped for juice on that first visit to Al Ain . |
| 14 | We had stopped in Geysir for diesel and here it was , only three in the morning and we were half-way from the end of the road . |
| 15 | When we had eaten in silence I asked him what the trouble was . |
| 16 | If we had to choose between radiocarbon and TL dating , then we would have to take into account that radiocarbon is used for organic materials and has an upper age limit of about forty thousand years , whereas TL is applied to inorganic samples and can be used beyond the range of radiocarbon . |
| 17 | A police spokesman said : ‘ We had to leave at speed because emotions were running so high . ’ |
| 18 | So , sadly , we had to leave for Siren last November . |
| 19 | ‘ We had fallen in love , ’ she said later , simply . |
| 20 | I was explaining that we had fallen in need of a housekeeper and an under-butler at one and the same time and Miss Kenton had arrived — with unusually good references , I recall — to take up the former post . |
| 21 | Tonight , we had to put in order |
| 22 | As the crest broke over my head I just wished that we had gone for plan B which was to have used a tandem bicycle for this trip . |
| 23 | Well a very close fought encounter at the stadium ; we had to wait for quarter of an hour for the first actual goal chance when Dave Bristow hit the ball from twenty five yards , which just cleared the bar . |
| 24 | As we were leaving the theatre , we had to wait for Dad to shake hands in the foyer with some dignitaries . |
| 25 | The shoot used to last five or six days in August but you did n't get paid when it was finished — do n't ask me why , but we had to wait until Christmas . |
| 26 | ‘ They found us everywhere so we had to stay under water nearly twenty-three hours a day , and the air was so bad you had to lie down and sleep so you did n't use too much of it . ’ |
| 27 | What I confirmed in answer to the question to which the hon. Gentleman has referred was that we had put in place measures to deal with the problems arising from repossession . |
| 28 | If we had started on week one , where if we 'd had complete programme information up to week thirteen when , that 'd be more complete would n't it ? |
| 29 | Initially we had to start from scratch to find out about drug use and drug users , for we were not even one-eyed kings in this land of the blind ; and we quickly found we were delving into a new and complex social world . |
| 30 | Two weeks after arriving at Taï , we had managed to film nothing at all . |