Example sentences of "we had [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked as if we had painted ourselves into a corner and I was on the verge of giving up and going home when Jake trundled up with his totter 's cart and his little skewbald pony . |
| 2 | In trying to sort out this problem I was driven to delving through old logbooks , and it was reading them that made me realise just how often we had based ourselves in the area . |
| 3 | Repeatedly we had cursed ourselves and our schools for allowing us to think we 'd grasped maths , physics and so on when now we could n't remember any of the important or useful things . |
| 4 | I have in my memory a feeling that we had satisfied ourselves that international law would be obeyed . ’ |
| 5 | By the time we reached Totnes , in Devon , we had abandoned ourselves to our despair . |
| 6 | In fact he confirmed it so strongly that we had pulled ourselves together for a few days . |
| 7 | Good humour being somewhat restored , I turned away to make the hot drink we had promised ourselves so long ago CRASH ! |
| 8 | Wondering what we had let ourselves in for we anchored as near as possible to Ullapool and contacted the local staff which at that time consisted of local patrol officers backed up by two visiting officers from Dingwall . |
| 9 | A few days later , after we had established ourselves in Montreal , we called him . |
| 10 | When at 10.45am we had resigned ourselves to a day of swimming and sunbathing a farmer pulled up and asked , in German , if we were waiting for him . |
| 11 | No longer were we ‘ engagé volontaires ’ , who could be treated as nothings — we had proved ourselves to the instructors on our course , and henceforth they would treat us as legionnaires and expect us to behave as such . |
| 12 | 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 . |