Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] we had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We found in the interviews that once we had got beyond some version of this public model of management , managers attempted to humanize this by drawing on metaphors from their own experience and inner resources . |
| 3 | Will he confirm that if we had adopted a scatter-gun approach to benefits , as the Labour Government did , the substantial improvements in help for the disabled since 1979 would not have been possible ? |
| 4 | We have , just in this fact , an argument that if we had to choose one of the two strategies for the indefinite future we would do better to choose pragmatism , because it is so much more adaptive . |
| 5 | I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were . |
| 6 | Using these criteria ( as well as that which stipulated that they should not be paid carers ) we felt we would achieve a more homogeneous sample than if we had included people less closely involved , and one which would be confined to those with a significant input into the care of the dementia sufferer . |
| 7 | The practical reason was that because we had collaborated with the Russian museums for earlier exhibitions we were able to make an agreement and bring together our collections with theirs . |
| 8 | But we learned that after we had lost sight of the taxi , it had gone to Waterloo station , where the man had caught his train . |
| 9 | Speaking of Deano — everyone I talked felt that as we had paid £2.7 million for a centre forward would n't it be nice if hung around near the goal or in the box for that matter instead of running all over the show and when we finally get the ball in the box there 's nobody there . |
| 10 | People would stop in the street asking how we were and where we had come from all in perfect English . |
| 11 | We agreed that the lack of action was an outrage and that we had to draw people 's attention to it . |
| 12 | Reed chairman Peter Davis commented : ‘ In May 1991 I explained that our existing publishing and information business had first priority so far as further investment was concerned and that we had decided not to join our partners in putting more funds into BSkyB . |
| 13 | I 'm very sorry about the disturbance at the restaurant and that we had to cut the interview short . |
| 14 | For how many years have we been told it 's tax payers ' money do you remember Maggie and the tax payers ' money , it 's like this animal somewhere called the tax payer but it came out of the wall as if we were n't one of them and that we had to look after the tax payers ' money . |
| 15 | We may well wonder whether the ambiguity in the word servus does not hide a fundamental ambiguity running right through the period ; and if we had asked the abbot of Saint-Germain , he might have answered that the servitude of serf and slave alike was a small matter compared with man 's servitude , since the Fall , to the devil ; and that all men were slaves . |
| 16 | The music panellist said : ‘ If there had been a full panel meeting and if we had known certain things which were kept from us the decision might have been different . |
| 17 | Why I if if we had got devolution eleven years ago ? |
| 18 | ‘ The terms for refunds were on the back of our tickets which meant we did not see them until after we had made the purchase . ’ |
| 19 | And after we had met again , he observed that I had achieved what he called ‘ poise ’ . |
| 20 | I did not date the typed copy I made — for Dana could not or would not type , and after we had finished a poem to our common satisfaction , I had to type it out while he rested on the bed — but I am fairly certain it was written soon after I met Dana in that Spanish class for foreigners , which I have noted in my 1957 Letts Diary : ‘ Wednesday , October 16 . |
| 21 | ‘ Then somewhere about halfway , we were doing a scene , and after we had finished he turned to me and smiled and said , ‘ Got me . ’ |
| 22 | Still , it sobered us a bit , and after we had taken several more shots we decided that we needed some sleep , to try to get our minds back in gear . |
| 23 | It was only when I felt safe with you , and after we had spent some hours working on our poems , that we would go down to the restaurant for late dinner , which always ended with either banana or ‘ flan ’ . |
| 24 | We were all allocated to our rooms and after we had unpacked we went to collect our skiing gear . |
| 25 | And whether we had to keep running those slots . |
| 26 | The water had to be drawn up out of one of a battery of long-necked cisterns behind the cottage , and when we had done that and fed the plants we sat on a seat by the Priapus arbour , with the unusual smell , in summer Greece , of verdant wet earth all around us . |
| 27 | Then we had to ski down to the next lot of lifts which went even higher and when we had mastered that we got on a chairlift which took us right to the top . |
| 28 | When I had finished , and when we had counted the money in the hat ( which we did round the corner , discreetly ) , I realized that four songs had earned us enough to pay for a proper meal , each , in a cheap restaurant . |
| 29 | But once Crowninshield was gone , and when we had refuelled the Beechcraft and put a crate of beer on to one of her back seats , the Maggot demanded to know everything . |
| 30 | Taylor said : ‘ Lawrie spoke to Alex and as we had lost David Batty we were quite short in mid-field . |