Example sentences of "[that] we had [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Almost without exception , they were breathtakingly beautiful ; their every movement a languid dance , and their smiles open and confident — so different from the shy tittering behind shawls that we had seen amongst the Bugis girls . |
| 3 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 4 | ‘ Would that we had died in the land of Egypt ! ’ |
| 5 | Erm now there 's two questions really , one is is that partly to offset the erm lack of productivity that we had anticipated in the budget . |
| 6 | I saw the formation of the Black Workers ' Group and the concessions that we had won as a lever or a rolling stone which would have a knock-on effect . |
| 7 | If it was n't that we had to develop from an egg in every generation , I do n't think that kind of conservatism would be observed . |
| 8 | For how many years have we been told it 's tax payers ' money do you remember Maggie and the tax payers ' money , it 's like this animal somewhere called the tax payer but it came out of the wall as if we were n't one of them and that we had to look after the tax payers ' money . |
| 9 | I saw the massed coils of barbed wire , the tall wooden towers and the muffled sentries that we had passed on the night I arrived . |
| 10 | There w–s no sense that we had passed from the holy world of church to secular life : there was a wholeness and a holiness about the whole experience which is difficult to describe . |
| 11 | I was too tired , only vaguely conscious that we had come off the canal bank and were angling down across a steep slope of stony ground to the rice-green flatness of the valley floor . |