Example sentences of "we had [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over lunch we decided that we could repeat what we had done at Muirfield Village and take all Four fourballs and five hours later it was done . |
| 2 | The only medal we had ever won at a major championship since 1978 was the bronze we had gained at Stuttgart in the European . |
| 3 | But Chapman said later : ‘ If we had lost at Wembley , my opinion of Jack and his value to the Arsenal would not have changed in the slightest . |
| 4 | We had met at parties previously , but had carefully avoided one another after exchanging polite hallos . |
| 5 | A police spokesman said : ‘ We had to leave at speed because emotions were running so high . ’ |
| 6 | I was reminded of Isidora whose mummy we had seen at Tuna el-Gebel and of a recurring paradox , destruction by the forces of creation . |
| 7 | ‘ Gray would still have been in a job if we had won at Torquay , ’ said Corden , ‘ but it was a diabolical performance and we felt something had to be done . ’ |
| 8 | Two hundred and fifty hours later , after fitting an alarm and the full system over numerous late nights , early mornings and long weekends we drove the finished product out of the garage at 3.00am on Saturday 5 September , yes four hours before we had to register at Wembley . |
| 9 | The Danakil guide we had acquired at Bilen had tried to bolt on the march , so I detailed two soldiers to guard him till dawn . |
| 10 | We had arrived at Orange a week previously , and after disembarking from the coach had been ordered into the barrack rooms by our Corporals , who were waiting outside on the parade ground . |
| 11 | Obsessed as they were with hygiene and cleanliness , the Corporals had been worried ever since we had arrived at Orange that some of us were not adept at emptying our bowels neatly . |
| 12 | Fortunately I had with me a book of prose exercises that we had used at school , so , at random I chose one which I vaguely remembered . |