Example sentences of "we had [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently we had made so much noise when we returned separately the night before that we had wakened everyone and we were being thrown out . |
| 2 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 3 | We , of course , went outside to see if we could see anything , not really expecting to ; there was nothing to suggest the passage of a train , just the cool night air and the distant sound of night life , nothing to prove or disprove the eerie sounds we had heard so clearly . |
| 4 | If we had done so , it meant … |
| 5 | Over the years we had become so attached to Renishaw Road that our new , smaller house in Thorne Road seemed cold and indifferent to our worries . |
| 6 | This bird is distinctly different in character from those we had seen so far . |
| 7 | We had passed so close to the Dutchman that I thought we must have run over his foot . |
| 8 | But it was the enemy 's country , an enemy whom we had fought so far as one might fight an armed man in a dark room . |
| 9 | And secondly the fact that it was n't in the budget erm and the fact that they 're late means that we 're not also realizing the productivity in other areas that we had anticipated so we 're gon na be some six months late coming in . |
| 10 | and yeah we did forget the first paragraph of the of what we had learned so we just covered what we 'd done really |
| 11 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
| 12 | On the right side the hedgerow ran parallel with the road as it sloped away down to the crossroads where we had had so much trouble yesterday . |
| 13 | Since we had to renew so much of the timber , we thought we would turn that to good account , rather than trying to We do n't want it to look as if it 's five hundred years old . |
| 14 | And there was a satisfaction about it although I always think in those days we had to work so fast that there was n't the time to do what you 'd really like to have done for the patients . |
| 15 | The harbour was crammed with the great prahus which we had come so far for , but our attempts to communicate with the captains and crewmen were discouraging . |
| 16 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 17 | In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) . |
| 18 | The building site manager at the time told the Daily Mirror : ‘ I had a meeting with Mellor 's wife over cups of coffee at the start of each week to discuss any problems and let her know how much we had spent so far . |
| 19 | We had tried so hard , we had to succeed . |