Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] we had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then all of a sudden these strange people started coming out of record companies who were involved in the video end of it and deciding this is what we should do with that song and sort of you know these were songs that we had planned and recorded and and all of a sudden these people were changing them . |
| 3 | We were in a perfect position to attack the mountain from its north side once we had dropped down and crossed the river . |
| 4 | ‘ It never went through my mind that we had left Becky and Emma behind , ’ he said . |
| 5 | It felt like confirmation that we had got it right . |
| 6 | But the tail of the Mary Alice looked as though it might break off completely any minute and was causing such a drag that we had to fly back on our own . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , the playgroup run by local parents had not been the success for Balbinder that we had hoped . |
| 9 | Tromsø had no more snow than we had seen in the autumn , but it was colder . |
| 10 | Yes we were actually erm , the position of the control vehicle was erm in front of an ambulance that we had asked to be there and the crew were briefed as to what we were doing and and what injuries possibly could arise . |
| 11 | But a club spokesman said : ‘ Several people complained about her coming to the club so we had to do something . |
| 12 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 13 | Design manager Ian Cheetham , 30 , said calmly : ‘ It was no big deal and we had to get to a very important meeting with clients . ’ |
| 14 | However , at £75 million it was a very substantial investment and we had to open . ’ |
| 15 | So the next stop could have been Blackpool or Plymouth if we had wished . |
| 16 | So we had to go to pictures and we had to have a few or whatever . |
| 17 | We usually sourced from Olympic in the States but we had to start looking elsewhere . |
| 18 | Erm we do try and be nice to them we do try and give them presents occasionally like little , you may have seen some of them wearing little lions head badges which er are part of the arms of William that we had made . |
| 19 | ‘ Our lease was ending on the old building so we had to look for somewhere different , ’ says . |
| 20 | ‘ We had no fridge , cooker , cutlery or crockery so we had to eat out all the time . |
| 21 | We still cherished the idea of putting together a ‘ counterblast ’ ; but I perceived in due course that we had begun to differ regarding the objective to be demolished . |
| 22 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 23 | I asked how many responses had been received because we knew , from the responses that we had received , that the vast majority of the people of Ayrshire are totally opposed to the opting out of Ayrshire South hospital . |
| 24 | And secondly the fact that it was n't in the budget erm and the fact that they 're late means that we 're not also realizing the productivity in other areas that we had anticipated so we 're gon na be some six months late coming in . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was worth all the hard work that we had put into it because it got that we used to use the town park towards the latter part of Barnardos day and all the men that we had gathered together used to have to erect every piece of fence to enclose like it is now , the park , is enclosed now with with fencing the men that were helping us did that all voluntarily ! |
| 27 | While the DUC itself had amassed information and expertise by now to undertake this study itself , it realized that the report would have to be produced from outside the community if it was to have legitimacy or to be seen in any way as neutral : ‘ We in the Committee felt that we knew enough to write the report ourselves but we also felt that it would n't be acceptable to the County Council so we had to get somebody else to do it ’ . |
| 28 | It is with regret that we had to accept the resignation of three industry members due to difficult trading conditions . |
| 29 | The original wall survives at the base to a greater degree than we had realised and gives us a substantial footing . |
| 30 | ‘ He stole our front door keys and we had to have all the locks changed at our home . ’ |