Example sentences of "us [conj] we had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When several of us got down there the CO informed us that we had to fly down the Gulf to look for an Imperial Airways airliner , one of those Armstrong Whitworth Argosys which was named City of Glasgow , and had been overdue for sometime . |
| 2 | It did not take them long to inform us that we had arrived with their traditional enemies , the Bugis . |
| 3 | Yet with its residual gentility , its variegated forest of a garden where we had practical botany lessons , and the original Victorian mansion building with its labyrinth of poky rooms and winding staircases , it must have seemed that the convent was an accidental inheritance , never really meant for us , and thereby reminding us that we had come into our own ; we had by right something more than had once been intended for us . |
| 4 | My own attempts in the following paragraphs may well demonstrate the difficulties facing us if we had tried to write a short response to all the great present-day debates in polytechnics and universities about the status of literature . |
| 5 | It may have helped us if we had had such an organisation to fall back on . |
| 6 | It may have helped us if we had had such an organisation to fall back on . |
| 7 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 8 | The problem was then pointed out to us and we had to employ a plumber to put matters right . |
| 9 | They had the terms already pre-printed for us and we had agreed them and secured our new property before we even received terms from the others . ’ |
| 10 | They were not well off and they did n't welcome us because we had brought gifts they simply welcomed us because we had had the interest to go and see them and talk to them . |
| 11 | It was a busier time for us because we had to feed the the the six of them w we put them into a big shed and they just slept there but we we gave them their dinner , they managed to make their own breakfast and their tea whatever They had bread and stuff like that but we had to make their dinner for them . |
| 12 | They were not well off and they did n't welcome us because we had brought gifts they simply welcomed us because we had had the interest to go and see them and talk to them . |
| 13 | These were the first words spoken between us since we had arrived in Rome four days earlier . |
| 14 | He left us after we had reached Luxembourg as this was as far as he went . |
| 15 | Note added in proof : The accompanying paper by Schlesinger and Ramankutty , which was shown to us after we had submitted this paper , also considers the relative importance of greenhouse , sulphate aerosol and solar forcing . |