Example sentences of "we had [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have made no impression on the Yugoslavian tragedy — so much so that I wish we had developed our own foreign policy towards the future of Yugoslavia in general and to the states of Slovenia and Croatia in particular . |
| 2 | We had made our own Garden of Eden . |
| 3 | Vicky pointed out that we had deposited our own jewellery in the safe in our room and that other guests had probably done the same . |
| 4 | With the acquisition of in 1987 inherited a fleet of 12 bulk malt delivery vehicles — we had transferred our own fleet to a contract hire operator two years earlier . |
| 5 | Now , within the space of five minutes , we had broken one each . |
| 6 | In an effort to combat the isolation and fear I felt at the time , I sought out a number of parents in similar situations to my own ; we had to create our own support systems . |
| 7 | We had to push them all the time , all the time . |
| 8 | And we had to pretend our own songs were covers ! ’ |
| 9 | We had to take our own meals at all times , even when we had cups of tea we had to take to the station our own tea , sugar and milk , but there was always a large kettle during the winter months on a coal fire , and during the summer months on a gas ring . |
| 10 | ‘ I know we had to let them all walk free . |
| 11 | We had to cook our own meals because the housemother was n't living in ; we used to do everything for ourselves . |
| 12 | I suppose it was and we had to tidy it all up afterwards |
| 13 | If we had to send you and it 's a big if , we had to send you another hundred mil further sorry another hundred miles , above a hundred miles we will pay you another five percent . |
| 14 | I ran back half a mile of road to get a glimpse of her in the distance , though we had passed her half an hour before , & of course she was out of sight on the Downs . |
| 15 | We introduced ourselves and told them we had brought them some food which they could share with their friends . |
| 16 | We had to supply our own clothes : caps and aprons . |
| 17 | The docker docker mission would n't supply you with water boots we had to supply our own , now today they supply them with everything even underlinen I think nearly now . |
| 18 | Yes we had to get them all into the tanks otherwise |
| 19 | We had to build our own church , St Lawrence 's . |
| 20 | Clustered in the doorway of the stone hut , intent and fascinated by the spectacle before us , we had forgotten our own fighters . |
| 21 | We really hit it off and I started working almost exclusively with her because we had found our own special form of communication called in ‘ Tinglish ’ ( a crazy mix of Thai and English ) . |
| 22 | I mean , when we came here , as I say , we had nothing , our children , if they wanted erm any entertainment we had to make our own entertainment , which we did . |
| 23 | And we had to maintain our own crane . |
| 24 | When I established our environmental objectives in 1990 , I recognised that we had set ourselves some very demanding targets which could only be met through the continuous commitment and effort of everyone involved . |
| 25 | We had to wash our own hair and mend our own clothes . |