Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [conj] we had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not take them long to inform us that we had arrived with their traditional enemies , the Bugis . |
| 2 | When Sir Henry joined us , Holmes told him that we had to leave for London immediately after breakfast . |
| 3 | They were not well off and they did n't welcome us because we had brought gifts they simply welcomed us because we had had the interest to go and see them and talk to them . |
| 4 | Although Mr Salmon had already told me that we had declared war against the Germans almost a year ago — none of us having heard of Archduke Franz Ferdinand — we only found out how serious it was when a lot of young lads who had worked in the market began to disappear off to ‘ the front ’ to be replaced by their younger brothers — and sometimes even sisters . |
| 5 | Perhaps Signe had told him that we had made love . |
| 6 | They were not well off and they did n't welcome us because we had brought gifts they simply welcomed us because we had had the interest to go and see them and talk to them . |
| 7 | It may have helped us if we had had such an organisation to fall back on . |
| 8 | It may have helped us if we had had such an organisation to fall back on . |
| 9 | When several of us got down there the CO informed us that we had to fly down the Gulf to look for an Imperial Airways airliner , one of those Armstrong Whitworth Argosys which was named City of Glasgow , and had been overdue for sometime . |
| 10 | My own attempts in the following paragraphs may well demonstrate the difficulties facing us if we had tried to write a short response to all the great present-day debates in polytechnics and universities about the status of literature . |
| 11 | Why had n't Shamrock 's owners looked after her and loved her as we had done ? |
| 12 | He loved it that we had christened him and he knew that he was special to us . |
| 13 | Yes , she thought , I 'd hate it if we had to leave the party . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | My hon. Friend rightly draws attention to her many constituents who are now home owners and thus have the privilege of owning their own homes — a right which would have been denied them if we had listened to the advice of Opposition Members . |
| 16 | He left us after we had reached Luxembourg as this was as far as he went . |
| 17 | Yet with its residual gentility , its variegated forest of a garden where we had practical botany lessons , and the original Victorian mansion building with its labyrinth of poky rooms and winding staircases , it must have seemed that the convent was an accidental inheritance , never really meant for us , and thereby reminding us that we had come into our own ; we had by right something more than had once been intended for us . |