Example sentences of "[adj] that we [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them gesticulated to us and , using harsh , staccato Russian ( which neither of us understood ) and rather violent stabs into the air , made it very clear that we had taken a dangerous route over the ice and that we were very stupid indeed . |
| 2 | After we reduced the parts to three , it became clear that we had to remove the work from the centre and reduce it to two elements , which would hold the volumes of the north and the south galleries and make a linkage across the Octagon activating the entire space . |
| 3 | Once mother-infant interactions came to be studied in detail it became clear that we needed to reshape radically our ideas about socialization-about how children are integrated into a social world . |
| 4 | ‘ There was some press comment , but still none of us were remotely afraid that we had done anything wrong . ’ |
| 5 | He was obviously peeved that we 'd squared it with the music teacher while he did n't know anything about it . |
| 6 | He is 90 now , so deaf that we had to shout at him to be heard , so old that he speaks only Turkish , the language of his oppressors . |
| 7 | I saw how the well-documented material containing the truth about Fayed that we began to put before the DTI was received in embarrassed silence . |
| 8 | One afternoon we became so depressed that we decided to drown our sorrows in drink . |
| 9 | However , having overcome that obstacle we headed down the major road for Arad and despite the large pot holes which had to be avoided and the need to keep your eyes skinned for mobile hayricks ( horses and extremely overladen carts with no lights ) doing approximately 2 miles per hour , we arrived at our friends ' home in Arad at around 8.30 very relieved that we had reached our first destination . |
| 10 | And Seve 's back was a real pain — the cold got to it and it troubled him so much that we had to go and find a physiotherapist . |
| 11 | WE got so much that we had asked for from Norman Lamont yesterday that it might seem churlish not to give his Autumn Statement an unqualified welcome . |
| 12 | I was dismayed that we had disturbed her and apologised for having made a noise . |
| 13 | We were convinced that we had located , by accident , the last resting place of HMS Impregnable . |
| 14 | I 'm only glad that we 'd made up , otherwise it could have been very awkward for me if Fran had refused to back up my story ! ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ We have been lucky that we managed to convert the right strategy into the right results , ’ says Lord Weir . |
| 17 | My sins found me out : the pain went , but I was so sick and ill that we had to come home . |
| 18 | We had gotten to that section of the tune where it was obvious that we had played enough for the outro and I decided , off the top of my head , to start playing a song that I had started writing earlier in the week . |
| 19 | The reception was all that we had hoped and planned ; the young best man gave the best best man 's speech I have ever heard ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All that we had to say to them was that we intended to tax them more severely . |
| 22 | There was an old shooting range behind the farmhouse and we went up there one morning to put into practice all that we had learnt about explosives . |
| 23 | He eavesdropped on church leadership meetings in our home and then made it his business to tell everybody all that we had discussed . |
| 24 | I , I would totally support the move that you 're suggesting Mr Chairman , if we are asked to provide another one percent or whatever can be done , erm , I would suggest that the obvious way to get that money would be to offer them the ten thousand that we agreed to spend this morning . |
| 25 | You know we managed to man the gates in working hours and forced the company to shift slate at ungodly hours in the morning , and I think people were impressed that we managed to stick it out . |
| 26 | Julian Rivers , marketing director of Dillons , said : ‘ We have supported Childline in the past and were so impressed that we wanted to help again . ’ |
| 27 | After getting the flying bag and doing all the planning and paying Operations , we were so hungry that we had to go and eat at what turned out to be an excellent restaurant where all the airport employees go as well as the passengers . |
| 28 | Sir Ranulph , said : ‘ I 'm amazed that we did do it … |
| 29 | Very tired but excited that we had covered a third of our journey . |
| 30 | It had become so difficult that we needed to help each other make it ; everyone who made it to Australia would win a trophy . |