Example sentences of "[conj] we had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I half slept , then woke as we sped by the rest house where we had stopped for juice on that first visit to Al Ain . |
| 2 | And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry . |
| 3 | Although we were terrified that they would find where we had hidden our film equipment , it was easier for us than for our crewmates to express our anger , and we blustered the officials off the ship . |
| 4 | I could even see Conchis , who was sitting where we had sat on the terrace the night before , apparently reading . |
| 5 | He had , in fact , just left me on a bench in a nearby park where we had spent some time together before he decided to go for a stroll . |
| 6 | On the back of a piece of paper where we had worked on a poem called ‘ The Word ’ I found the quotation that begins this chapter . |
| 7 | We set off early from Gemiler Island , the anchorage closest to their northern end , where we had anchored in perfect shelter , hunting lizards and mosaics in a labyrinth of Byzantine ruins . |
| 8 | This was " Bugisville " all right , and our arrival was accompanied by the usual howling horde of kids and adults who jostled us up the steps to the house of the Bupati , the government-appointed chief , where we had arrived to pay our respects . |
| 9 | It did not really matter who we were or where we had come from ; the fountain united us all in a common purpose and that was enough . |
| 10 | People would stop in the street asking how we were and where we had come from all in perfect English . |
| 11 | Our landlady , a Mrs Brown , seemed pleasant and reasonable , and we were still contented to be in Bedford , although we had discovered that there was one disadvantage — the Americans . |
| 12 | We had very little experience in clothing design at that stage , although we had run a small experiment with Habitat called Clothes Line . |
| 13 | But , although we had tested it during the day , the drop in the temperature at night was so great that the oil in the mechanism became sluggish and thick . |
| 14 | I must say it was an awful lot of rot , although we had reserved seats … . |
| 15 | Although we had bucked the recessionary trend in the previous year , demand for carpets was even more depressed , and in a fiercely competitive market place , we all had to work harder for our share of the smaller ‘ cake ’ . |
| 16 | Even worse was the realization that we had cut an oblique through the outer ditch in our extended town defences section . |
| 17 | ‘ I can still remember the feeling of intense shock , but also a feeling of superiority that we had heard the news before many other people , ’ says E. Walker , who was teaching infants at a primary school in North Yorkshire when Music and Movement was interrupted to bring the news . |
| 18 | The Americans were friendly and polite , but there was no mistaking their view that Britain had gone downhill to the point that we had become an irrelevance . |
| 19 | Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time . |
| 20 | I was dismayed that we had disturbed her and apologised for having made a noise . |
| 21 | 1991 was a ‘ peculiar ’ year compared to 1988 and 1990 , Igor Landau , senior executive vice-president of the French chemical group Rhône-Poulenc , said recently , ‘ We had to begin to prove that everything that we had done makes sense ’ . |
| 22 | I do n't suppose these efforts influenced the election in the slightest , but on the Friday we learned that Mr. Morrison had been re-elected and felt that we had done our part in ensuring his success . |
| 23 | ‘ There was some press comment , but still none of us were remotely afraid that we had done anything wrong . ’ |
| 24 | Fleischmann replied that with hindsight that might be true but ‘ in the situation we were then in , we were obliged to tell the university of the work that we had done and they perceived that they were obliged to go for patent protection at that time . |
| 25 | To try and insinuate that we had done something wrong . |
| 26 | It was as if all that we had done … had been a school and a preparation both for that first day in which I suddenly knew how to make one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream into a solid reality . |
| 27 | I intended to say merely that we had done as he had instructed us in his letter , hoping that he would thereby confirm the letter as a matter of course . |
| 28 | Mr Hopkin expressed his opinion that we had done a very good job in our efforts , he then gave his professional advice |
| 29 | I just wish that we had done more of it sooner . |
| 30 | 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 . |