Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] we had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was allowed to continue with her mending — she did not know that we had spread a thick layer of gum upon the chair and was surprised at the alacrity with which we saw to all her needs so that she should never move . |
| 2 | I was explaining that we had fallen in need of a housekeeper and an under-butler at one and the same time and Miss Kenton had arrived — with unusually good references , I recall — to take up the former post . |
| 3 | I put in the usual request for official clearance through the valve and was pleased to find that we had got lucky . |
| 4 | Fortunately I had with me a book of prose exercises that we had used at school , so , at random I chose one which I vaguely remembered . |
| 5 | We had a 3.15 PM start , and we 'd only played one hole when the end of the world looked as though it had come and we had to shelter in the R&A tent . |
| 6 | It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle . |
| 7 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |
| 8 | In some places the topsoil had been eroded and we had to zigzag up on loose scree . |
| 9 | I simply wish to point out that if it is supposed that Karen Parsons and I embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband , why did we wait till we had reached a point where our criminal acts were overlooked by at least fifteen witnesses ? |
| 10 | We then realized that we had gone too far and lacked the critical mass to support the heavy selling effort involved , so we bought another company to fill out the range again . |
| 11 | We then realized that we had to change that image , if you like to call it that , because we were n't really living normal lives any more . |
| 12 | When Sir Henry received the telegram sent by Holmes ' boy , he would think that we had arrived in London . |
| 13 | We had to repossess what fate had handed us on a plate , and the only way to do this was to claim that we had willed it all along . |
| 14 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 15 | When I established our environmental objectives in 1990 , I recognised that we had set ourselves some very demanding targets which could only be met through the continuous commitment and effort of everyone involved . |
| 16 | We entered the very horse show that we had to sit out the year before . |
| 17 | We told that we had to do some preliminary research for possible television programmes . |
| 18 | One constable had the temerity to state that we had had nothing to eat since 9.30 a.m . |
| 19 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |
| 20 | ‘ After so many weeks of work , it seemed that we had got it right , ’ Michael Codron told me . |
| 21 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 22 | We do not risk , as we would have done if we had handled the Bill in any other way , leaving those matters which come at the end of the Bill — as the Scottish provisions do — not to be debated fully . |
| 23 | I was surprised when Newsround came and we had to sing Ding dong merrily on high again after singing it three times before . |
| 24 | The fullest enjoyment of Giorgione 's altarpiece could , he claimed , only be realised if we had walked from Venice to Castelfranco |
| 25 | The fullest enjoyment of Giorgione 's altarpiece could , he claimed , only be realised if we had walked from Venice to Castelfranco . |
| 26 | ‘ I do not think if we had put down a motion which said we believe in motherhood and sliced bread the Labour Party would have backed us , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Our neighbour from the next door flat , a Dutch Javanese married to a Scotsman , came rushing in to see if we had heard the news . |
| 28 | ‘ I said some time ago that there was a mile to go and we had to go half a mile each , and the Community went more than its half a mile . |
| 29 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 30 | It 's unfortunate that yet again the Mercury got it wrong they stated that we had made a decision to close four homes |