Example sentences of "we had [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We certainly surprised a lot of people and I think we may even have surprised ourselves by the progress we had made in a relatively short time . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Walker , who had vowed he would have to be evicted with the family , said : ‘ We had hoped for a stay of execution to allow the family to depart with dignity , but the Scottish Office handled the request in the same way as they have handled the whole affair — with massive insensitivity . |
| 3 | We had heard of a municipal university , and of a university of the East Midlands , and newcomers were welcomed by the Chairman of the College Council who , I think , was also a City or County Councillor . |
| 4 | Again , we had suffered from a lack of screens to back the tables for display purposes and privacy . |
| 5 | At the outset of the plans , we had prayed for a sign of divine approval . |
| 6 | our construction but the only to get there we had to squeeze through a gap this way and come round |
| 7 | Our perambulations were interrupted now and again when other young friends with babies , hove in sight and , being infectious , we had to wave from a distance and hurry away from each other . |
| 8 | We had emerged from a private wall into the crazy world of summer skiers , no doubt fresh from their BMWs in the car park below , and bemused by the intrusion of this odd , dilapidated pair of chastened alpinists . |
| 9 | ‘ We had begun on a totally false premise , ’ he said at length . |
| 10 | So we had to go through a whole charade of auditioning a second guitarist . |
| 11 | Momentarily transfixed , I soon realised we had run into a very dense patch of phosphorescence , a common enough phenomenon at sea which never failed to fascinate me . |
| 12 | In one very vivid dream , I remember being shot in the lower back and although it was only a dream we had to swim under a sort of submerged wall in order to escape . ’ |
| 13 | Their quotation was £12 for two pages , we had asked for a quote based on four , and although the letter promised a price and font list it was not enclosed . |
| 14 | Each campesino had been given instructions to always have ready 20 extra tortillas in case we had to leave at a moment 's notice , but even so , it was very hard . |
| 15 | In the end we had to settle for a hurried and depressing buffet in the North British Hotel , with a menu which would not have been out of place at a Sunday-school picnic . |
| 16 | Half way along we had to stop for a couple of hours because the ‘ road ’ had been washed away and the people who were travelling had to clear it . |
| 17 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
| 18 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 19 | We had to pay for it , so we had to send off a bill and therefore it knows what the price is . |
| 20 | We had to pay for it , so we had to send off a bill and therefore it knows what the price is . |
| 21 | We had got to a size where we needed an injection of institutional money and there were people who wanted to retire . |
| 22 | On the back of a piece of paper where we had worked on a poem called ‘ The Word ’ I found the quotation that begins this chapter . |
| 23 | no it was really New Town school children , because there was Forbert and Barnard 's school down the Old Town and that 's where the Old Town , all the Old Town people went , children went , so really Mark Hall was just New Town children you know , and then when , when we were eleven and had to go to another school we , er there was no comprehensive school in Harlow then , er we had to get on a bus and go to Chingford that was , did n't we ? |
| 24 | Design manager Ian Cheetham , 30 , said calmly : ‘ It was no big deal and we had to get to a very important meeting with clients . ’ |
| 25 | I saw the formation of the Black Workers ' Group and the concessions that we had won as a lever or a rolling stone which would have a knock-on effect . |
| 26 | So we decided we had to look for a new singer . |
| 27 | We had driven up a muddy track for ten miles and had arrived at a completely ruined farmhouse with no windows or doors , set into the slope of a mountain , looking over a marshy plain . |
| 28 | All at once , I sat up as if electrified , for we had driven into a large corrugated iron compound , and there were British soldiers everywhere ! |
| 29 | We had to walk through a course without people falling off . |
| 30 | Here the footpath ended so we had to walk for a few hundred yards along a stretch of country road . |