Example sentences of "we had [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , the bird mentioned in ( 19 ) must be one selected from a group present to the mind of the speaker in the situation of utterance ; this adjective can not be non-restrictive : ( 19 ) the largest parrot made a good supper for the expedition that evening The extraction set in this case might be the parrots we had shot that day . |
| 2 | Indeed , an extraction set may not be based on the denotation of any noun explicitly mentioned at all ; an equally valid extraction set for ( 19 ) might be the creatures we had shot that day . |
| 3 | We had developed this principle by joining lumps of plastic explosive together with some machine gun cartridges to make a simple anti-personnel charge . |
| 4 | I was sad to leave the boat , we had made many friends despite the trip being only a few hours long . |
| 5 | After six months we had made such a success of our little business that we took on a fourth girl and moved into the garage , as we now needed more space . |
| 6 | We had planned this after a brief look into Llanberis a few weeks previously . |
| 7 | We had decided this part would be tough , and for once we were right . |
| 8 | We had covered all the significant points of the computerised plan . |
| 9 | We had repulsed each in turn , and began to feel secure . ’ |
| 10 | Seeing its nest every day , we had invested all our hopes of spring in the creature 's re-emergence . |
| 11 | Everyone has a smile and we all wanted to tell what we had done that day or planned for the next . |
| 12 | The water had to be drawn up out of one of a battery of long-necked cisterns behind the cottage , and when we had done that and fed the plants we sat on a seat by the Priapus arbour , with the unusual smell , in summer Greece , of verdant wet earth all around us . |
| 13 | She could n't understand why we had done such a thing . |
| 14 | during the break , after we had done this segment of the film and had gone into the canteen for lunch , all the people who had been working on the film were whistling the song . |
| 15 | Monica will be alright she know 's what she 's doing , it 's just whether she has the time to do it , she would liked it if we had done this before Christmas , so that while you were away John |
| 16 | It was simply that he had begun to fear we had arranged this with Flora : as if , in his mind , he could hear her saying , oh yes , what a splendid idea , I shall be bored with young Adam by Fez … |
| 17 | We had studied some navigation but now had the chance to try it out in more detail . |
| 18 | By the end of October we had received some 38,800 principal applications during this calendar year . |
| 19 | Mr Lawrence said : ‘ An awful lot of what we had felt all along was vindicated by the research . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I thought , ’ he said , in withdrawn enquiry , ‘ that we had answered all the relevant questions already . |
| 21 | This fact was disastrous to us , as we had only brought with us just enough food for a one night camping trip , with the minimum of emergency rations , and we had eaten most of this . |
| 22 | We had flown most of the trip alone , so one day was n't a big deal . |
| 23 | Once we had achieved this magnificent piece of organizational decision making we looked to see if , in true Teesside Polytechnic student style , we could gain anything form it financially ! |
| 24 | Holmes went on to tell them about what we had seen that morning . |
| 25 | You see if we had seen that one that would be very ideal for Richard . |
| 26 | I felt embarrassed : clearly we had seen more of Flora at this time than I remembered . |
| 27 | Once this had been achieved , and we had given each other that little nod of recognition with which one acknowledges an intellectual equal , I moved on to the question that really interested me , which was how Alison came to know Thomas Carter in the first place . |
| 28 | ‘ If we had given this young lad the car , people could have come back to us and said we had broken the rules , ’ the hotel owner said . |
| 29 | In the years since , we 've kept a Northern Ireland file , and a few months ago we had collected enough encouraging evidence to make us think that a concerted effort would enable us to name the man most consistently pointed at as being in control of the IRA , Martin McGuinness . |
| 30 | If we had put some two or three stones on it you see , that 'd been better . |