Example sentences of "we had [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We had to go on to plastic teaspoons because the metal ones disappeared . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He 'd schooled very well and although I had hoped for a lead for a bit longer , we had to go on where we did . |
| 3 | And we s we had kept on making this , maybe we , some years we would sell about ten of them . |
| 4 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 5 | However , at the time they were the best and most modern cutters we had sailed on and we were all very proud of the fact . |
| 6 | Now we had moved on to bigger and better things , this predictability still stood us in good stead . |
| 7 | Then half way through the following week , when we had moved on to Lichfield , Constance came back . |
| 8 | If we had gone on , our love would have brought us the death we secretly called up every time we embraced . |
| 9 | But we had gone on . |
| 10 | I would like to have discovered what had become of Mr Graham , for although we had not known each other well , I would say we had got on on those occasions we had met . |
| 11 | But we had got on to a subject I do happen to know something about . |
| 12 | The drives we put on against New Zealand were things that we had worked on and it was very satisfying to see them coming off , not just for the forwards but for the backs as well . |
| 13 | We had to get on to the barge before these two characters unwittingly alerted the army sentries across the road , or before the Friends of the Tourists turned up looking for us . |
| 14 | He had been Senior British Officer in command of the prisoners in the orphanage and he had received considerable help from the people of Fontanellato ; eventually he had been helped to reach Switzerland , Now , suddenly , a few months before the date we had settled on for our marriage , he began to worry about the idea of one of his officers ( who made no claims to any sort of upper-class lineage ) marrying the daughter of a village schoolmaster . |
| 15 | The final straw , as it were , came when we were back home : none of the photographs we had taken on that day came out . |
| 16 | No-one cared how long we had taken on the route . |
| 17 | I paid Barry the fifteen dollars we had agreed on for a small , black Andean Equipment daysack to keep my new notebooks in and left him selling jewellery to his tour group . |
| 18 | Oh , he said , if we had carried on it would have been dear for somebody . |