Example sentences of "we had [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We discussed the present situation and the representations that we had made to the People 's Republic of China , and I reaffirmed the fact that I would continue to make such representations . |
| 2 | We turned and descended slowly to the tracks we had made on the ascent earlier that morning , then sloughed our way down . |
| 3 | We were referred to as ‘ sinister ’ and this made me see how little impact we had made upon the establishment and how much further we needed to go . |
| 4 | The vows we had made in the heat of our desire we had not kept . |
| 5 | But when we got there we found that the mountain we had perceived from the map to be the Cathedral , and which everyone else had perceived to be the Cathedral , was in fact another mountain altogether . |
| 6 | With John Neil we had ventured to the head of a glacier , on the west side of Chong Kumdan , to prospect a possible route . |
| 7 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 8 | There , I would dissect the brains into the same crudely defined regions we had adopted for the imprinting studies and do the biochemistry . |
| 9 | Sir Henry was still shaken by the terrible cry we had heard on the moor . |
| 10 | Bush droned on about good and evil , right and wrong , Hitler , Munich , appeasement , using all the same phrases that most of us thought we had heard for the last time , after the revolutions of 1989 . |
| 11 | Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months . |
| 12 | ‘ He thought that as good a case could be made for our efforts in Korea — and probably a better one — as almost anything we had done in the foreign field . ’ |
| 13 | We had telegraphed to the Hotel for rooms and there was a fire in the sitting room at which we spent the rest of the evening drying our clothes . |
| 14 | We had referred to the rather disturbing politics of The Times , which under Geoffrey Dawson favoured appeasement of the dictators . |
| 15 | Er and erm we did for that er report er as indeed in fact we had earlier in any event , we 'd looked at them separately , we have n't simply put in an orbital route , we had assessed in the traffic model er as separate schemes . |
| 16 | We had arranged with the agents that if we were interested we would stay the night in a local hotel and the next day meet the builder who had done much of the reconstruction of the place . |
| 17 | Erm exactly what , we did n't know , we were al we all knew a little bit about the seals , however we had studied about the seals in a different way and it did n't make sense and we were young people who who were searching . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , Freud was there , ’ Sergei said when we had emerged into the unnaturally brilliant November day . |
| 19 | We had stopped for the night . ’ |
| 20 | Project spokesman Shamsuddin Ahmed said : ‘ We had written to the Home Office Minister , Peter Lloyd , asking for support and he has now passed on the letter to the Heritage Minister , Peter Brooke . |
| 21 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 22 | We had met on the previous Wednesday , to discuss business matters . |
| 23 | So we had to go to the park where we had met under the protective shade of a friendly tree . |
| 24 | We had cycled on the road from Bodø to Fauske and on the Sulitjelma ; pushed the bikes over to Sorjusjaure ; ridden and swum our way to Staloluokta within the Padjelanta National Park ; and then thrashed our way on the faster tracks through Arasluokuoktastugorna , Låddejåkkåstugana and Kisurisstugan to Akkastugorna and a ferry to Ritjemokk , before cycling by road to Vietas ; and gone by plane to Sitastugan at the north-west end of Sitasjaure . |
| 25 | We had stayed at the Soleil d'Or , a little hotel as warm-hearted as its name . |
| 26 | If we had played for the whole 90 minutes as we did for the first hour we would have beaten Rangers . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We had asked for the additional cost of providing an extension of the present service to the Cuiken area of Penicuik . |
| 29 | I was suddenly infuriated at the thought of what we had believed about the Germans in England . |
| 30 | The Adams first visited Scarp in 1963 , ‘ It was as though we had disembarked on the flowery slopes of Heaven ’ . |