Example sentences of "[subord] we had [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we were terrified that they would find where we had hidden our film equipment , it was easier for us than for our crewmates to express our anger , and we blustered the officials off the ship . |
| 2 | But , although we had tested it during the day , the drop in the temperature at night was so great that the oil in the mechanism became sluggish and thick . |
| 3 | ‘ Said she did n't have the money , so we had to persuade her . ’ |
| 4 | An awful lot of money , so we had to cancel it . |
| 5 | It was a tiny cell , so we had to take it in turns to sit down . |
| 6 | On top of all that Copper has always had a dust allergy and he got very congested so we had to give him powders to keep his lungs clear . |
| 7 | And the pubs were only interested in cabaret bands , so we had to pretend we were a cabaret band and play as many covers as possible . |
| 8 | But a club spokesman said : ‘ Several people complained about her coming to the club so we had to do something . |
| 9 | Because we forgot to do , we forgot to do the spelling test last Friday , so we had to do it on Monday so we did n't get any spelling this week , so right now we did n't have a spelling test , this is brilliant , guess what we do now ? |
| 10 | You 're in luck — we found a fowl this morning , and it did n't look too well , so we had to put it out of its misery . ’ |
| 11 | But my mother-in-law was suspicious and asked us , so we had to tell her we were using condoms . |
| 12 | Now , at the time we had my grandmother living with us , so we had to tell her shut up , erm , and when they rang , er on the door , she , she was n't to sort of , call out and you know , to tell us that the door was ringing , |
| 13 | ‘ Nothing takes make-up off faster than chicken grease so we had to keep them away from that , ’ continues Drexler . |
| 14 | We then did n't have enough materials for the wall so we had to shorten its length , which in turn meant there was not enough room for media vehicles and not enough space for VIPs to manoeuvre their cars in , and that meant altering security arrangements . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | He said , ‘ I want you to mix my live album — ‘ David Live' ’ , so off I went to New York and we did very few overdubs , basically just the backing vocals , because the backing vocals were done by Warren Peace which is Geoffrey McCormack in disguise , and some other bloke , whose mane I ca n't remember , and as they were dancing all the time the backing vocals were rather breathless , so we had to dub them again in the recording studio . |
| 17 | But she got too old eventually and so did Dick and Snip , so we had to send them away . |
| 18 | Once we had got them down , we found that one could scarcely stand up . |
| 19 | Once we had got our jobs for the morning we set about then eagerly as everything had to be perfect right down to the last detail . |
| 20 | Once we had finished our efforts and long before the paint was dry , I wheeled the barrow triumphantly off towards the market . |
| 21 | But we had a job to get the tall one with the glass doors cos we had to turn it on its side cos it would n't go through the door , it stuck , what a performance doing that |
| 22 | Cos we had to go you see , and you had to put your Sunday clothes on , your best coat and everything ; and then when you came back you had to take them all off again . ’ |
| 23 | Cos we had to repack it you see because it was going to take a it was going to take probably not it was going to go right to the end with this lot on . |
| 24 | Somebody had lit a bonfire and we sat round it chatting until we had dried our clothes . |
| 25 | driven round until we had found it . |
| 26 | Snooker : ‘ If we had to replace our tobacco sponsors , we believe we could do so … ’ — David Harrison , Chief Executive , World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association ( WPBSA ) . |
| 27 | I 'm pleased but it 's not compensation for all of the trauma we have suffered or the money we have lost if we had invested it elsewhere . |
| 28 | Lovely warm things will be said to-day : she might not be dead if we had said them to her while alive , and let her weep out her hurt and pain at her rejection on our shoulders . |
| 29 | In every case if we had done nothing instead of doing something the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 30 | In every case , he wrote , if we had done something instead of doing nothing the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |