Example sentences of "[adj] that we had [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 | ‘ There was some press comment , but still none of us were remotely afraid that we had done anything wrong . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was dismayed that we had disturbed her and apologised for having made a noise . |
| 9 | We were convinced that we had located , by accident , the last resting place of HMS Impregnable . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | My sins found me out : the pain went , but I was so sick and ill that we had to come home . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | All that we had to say to them was that we intended to tax them more severely . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He eavesdropped on church leadership meetings in our home and then made it his business to tell everybody all that we had discussed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Very tired but excited that we had covered a third of our journey . |
| 20 | Perhaps it 's telling that a similar process of self-siphoning is also afflicting Hollywood , for no other song-writer is as steeped in cinema as Springsteen ( it is surprising that we had to wait until Indian Runner for a film to be made of one of his songs ) . |
| 21 | ‘ The family situation became so bad that we had to depart . |
| 22 | The weather was so bad that we had to chip ice off the upper-deck almost round the clock . |
| 23 | ‘ This time we rehearsed in England for three weeks and then flew to Houston , Texas , and rehearsed in the Goodyear Blimp hangar , because the screens the band use are so huge that we had to find a place big enough hold them ! |