Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | We were in a perfect position to attack the mountain from its north side once we had dropped down and crossed the river . |
| 3 | ‘ It never went through my mind that we had left Becky and Emma behind , ’ he said . |
| 4 | It felt like confirmation that we had got it right . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , the playgroup run by local parents had not been the success for Balbinder that we had hoped . |
| 7 | Tromsø had no more snow than we had seen in the autumn , but it was colder . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But a club spokesman said : ‘ Several people complained about her coming to the club so we had to do something . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Design manager Ian Cheetham , 30 , said calmly : ‘ It was no big deal and we had to get to a very important meeting with clients . ’ |
| 12 | However , at £75 million it was a very substantial investment and we had to open . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Our lease was ending on the old building so we had to look for somewhere different , ’ says . |
| 14 | ‘ We had no fridge , cooker , cutlery or crockery so we had to eat out all the time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | It is with regret that we had to accept the resignation of three industry members due to difficult trading conditions . |
| 20 | The original wall survives at the base to a greater degree than we had realised and gives us a substantial footing . |
| 21 | A woman present asked if Elizabeth were my sister , and at one time I wished she had been — but better not , for she would have lost an adored and incalculable mother and gained a dreadfully unhappy home ; and it would be a pity if we had shared the same literary material . |
| 22 | We used to do needlework and we had to make a needlework apron in gingham , with lots of pockets for your buttons , and your thread , and your bottle of gin and all that … . |
| 23 | The mountain behind the farmhouse was lost in a mist of snow and sleet and we had to smash the ice on the horse trough in the mornings . |
| 24 | Last year we cracked an ex-display tank in this office — that was an adequate 6mm three footer and we had placed it on polystyrene tiles on top of two filing cabinets which were less than even . |
| 25 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 26 | Sarella forced herself to ignore it and replied , ‘ The company lost its grant and we had to split up . |
| 27 | We needed to be persuaded of the case and we had gone through the BR figures line by line . |
| 28 | He could have stopped the trial and we had discussed whether to apply for a stay of prosecution , but once I was in the fight I wanted to carry on , whatever the consequences . ’ |
| 29 | We could have been bound to pay enormous sums of money if we had lost . ’ |
| 30 | In every case if we had done nothing instead of doing something the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |