Example sentences of "we had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the same island we had visited on my first trip . |
| 2 | I had witnessed Sister Kenny 's unusual treatment when I went to see her at work at Queen Mary 's Hospital for Children in Carshalton , one of several hospitals we had visited during our advanced student days . |
| 3 | The next day we had to report to the huge , ugly , frightening , hideous abattoir man who , in case you did n't know , lives , actually lives three streets away from us ! |
| 4 | We had a 3.15 PM start , and we 'd only played one hole when the end of the world looked as though it had come and we had to shelter in the R&A tent . |
| 5 | We worked with two pens in the one hand , one for black ink and one for red , and at each weather station we had to draw in the symbols for wind speed and direction , barometric pressure , temperature , cloud type , amount and height , and precipitation , all in black , and the wet bulb temperature and dew point in red . |
| 6 | We had to sit with our backs to the wall , facing the door . |
| 7 | We particularly remember our friendly old tortoise who had a passion for toes , and we had to sit with our feet in cardboard boxes so we did n't have nibbled digits ! |
| 8 | We had to sit in the waiting room with everyone else . |
| 9 | We had to sit in the shade out the road a bit |
| 10 | Often , when I was cycling through the camp after coming off duty , I would spy Thursby in the distance beavering along , head down against the gale , full of eagerness to get back on the job and spot any mistakes we had made during his absence . |
| 11 | We discussed the present situation and the representations that we had made to the People 's Republic of China , and I reaffirmed the fact that I would continue to make such representations . |
| 12 | He said that was fine and that he knew that the sails would be as good as the last suit that we had made for him . |
| 13 | We turned and descended slowly to the tracks we had made on the ascent earlier that morning , then sloughed our way down . |
| 14 | And this is erm this is a pot that we had made after much |
| 15 | We were referred to as ‘ sinister ’ and this made me see how little impact we had made upon the establishment and how much further we needed to go . |
| 16 | The vows we had made in the heat of our desire we had not kept . |
| 17 | ‘ We certainly surprised a lot of people and I think we may even have surprised ourselves by the progress we had made in a relatively short time . ’ |
| 18 | In fact such contact as we had consisted of nothing but bad feeling on one side ( his ) and bemusement on mine . |
| 19 | One of the most interesting line-ups we had consisted of Judi Dench , Alan Bates and Michael Hordern . |
| 20 | We had planned on selling the Tri-Pacer in Australia , but after 202 hours , 44 stops and 25,749 kilometres in it , we decided to take it home . |
| 21 | ‘ We had planned for 170 000 quintals for the six months … we distributed all we had . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But when we got there we found that the mountain we had perceived from the map to be the Cathedral , and which everyone else had perceived to be the Cathedral , was in fact another mountain altogether . |
| 24 | Don was low , little more than bare bones , and there was no point in fishing for salmon ; so we had decided to trout fish . |
| 25 | It seemed that we could just about raise the amount of the offer we had decided upon and still avoid bankruptcy . |
| 26 | I ca n't remember at the policy and resources why it was decided by a majority because in in replying to this report on making our comments to this report , I first had consultations with officers to go through some of the items that we had done and issues that we had covered in this authority especially the members ' services sub committee and we knocked off the bare bones of er a report to the policy and resources committee and the policy . |
| 27 | Every instinct and all the forces in political democracy were against the surrender of sovereignty , but we had to move down the road towards accepting it . |
| 28 | Well my husband had a job here we moved from Highbury in in London because his firm moved from Highbury in London to here and erm got so we had to move with my husband because of his job , you see ? |
| 29 | Where we lived was n't much of a place — there were fourteen families in the one house and as mother 's eyes got worse , less work came in and we had to move into smaller and smaller rooms . |
| 30 | We had to move into the capital afterwards , because we feared they would come back to look for my husband and I began to suffer from my nerves , thinking about all I had seen.They killed my husband in the end , in 1982 . |