Example sentences of "we had [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last we had reached a road that led to a place called Ritjemjokk where we telephoned home and did all the civilized things in life ; like sitting on a loo seat , for a long time . |
| 2 | We had reached a position of stalemate — but a position which for the sake of the Government had to be settled . |
| 3 | ‘ We had reached a point , ’ says Taiwo , ‘ where clients were always asking us , ‘ And where is your shop ? ’ ’ |
| 4 | I simply wish to point out that if it is supposed that Karen Parsons and I embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband , why did we wait till we had reached a point where our criminal acts were overlooked by at least fifteen witnesses ? |
| 5 | By now we had reached a delectable small pool hidden away in willow trees : Willow Pool . |
| 6 | On our first trip together we had visited a café of a very old-fashioned kind , called Cafeteria Varela Reposteria in Preciados , and I had noted an inscription saying En este lugar escribiõ sus mejores versos el gran poeta Emilio Carrere 1881–1947 . |
| 7 | I repeat that , as a result of the Government 's policy , we had to import a vet every single day of last year to try to keep on top of animal diseases . |
| 8 | We had to sit a three hour paper of questions about all our three years work in Sociology . |
| 9 | Manchester Computing Centre is used to coping with multi-volume files , but a further problem arose when the file was too large to fit onto one of our backup cartridges ; as no one had ever needed to copy a file that large on to cartridge before , we had to devise a way of splitting it between two cartridges . |
| 10 | They thought we had made a fool out of the preacher and were sorry we had n't ducked out the door as they would have done . |
| 11 | The hotel had much to keep youngsters occupied , but by day three we realised we had made a bad mistake in taking such a young child skiing . |
| 12 | He explained that we had made a grave error — it was Saturday afternoon . |
| 13 | One afternoon we had made a forced march around the local countryside with our rucksacks on . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought we had made a toast . ’ |
| 15 | it had been a great patrol during which we had made a lot of new friends , carried out a great deal of work en route and broken into completely new territory for the cutters . |
| 16 | He simply said something about it 's being his land and Piers told him we had made a mistake and we all rode off as hard as we could because we were bursting with laughter — ’ |
| 17 | It 's unfortunate that yet again the Mercury got it wrong they stated that we had made a decision to close four homes |
| 18 | To get to the lush meadows from the farm we had to weave a path through the narrow village lanes edged with cottages of golden stone and gardens in full summer bloom . |
| 19 | We were convinced we had witnessed a terrible accident and hurried to the police station at Lochcarron to report the incident , there to be reassured that there had not been a crash , and gently rebuked for assuming there had been . |
| 20 | In Southport recently we had planned a 3Oft ( 9m ) Portakabin to serve as part of a wall around a car park . |
| 21 | We had planned a stop in Grenoble and had filed for seven hours , with a one-hour stop en route . |
| 22 | Originally , we had planned a National Certificate programme in Accounting and Information Studies , but when the general SVQ was announced , we decided to combine the two , so our students will get both awards . |
| 23 | Very tired but excited that we had covered a third of our journey . |
| 24 | We had created a colourful , well-lit , attractive , atmospheric setting out of virtually nothing . |
| 25 | Days later , glutted with our experiences , we knew we had created a ‘ wonder walk ’ , a two week trek which could be described as a jewel in the Atlas crown . |
| 26 | From this , the idea was derived of ‘ patchwork pieces ’ , which then led to a demand for specific colours in the bags , ’ ‘ and suddenly we realized we had created a bit of a monster . ’ |
| 27 | The readership survey confirmed our belief that we had created a high quality magazine , with many readers saying they found it attractive , colourful and easy to read . |
| 28 | Will he confirm that if we had adopted a scatter-gun approach to benefits , as the Labour Government did , the substantial improvements in help for the disabled since 1979 would not have been possible ? |
| 29 | But Forest are currently bottom of the Premier League and the leader of the Labour controlled council , Cllr Betty Higgins , said : ‘ We had heard a rumour that Brian may not be in charge of Forest for much longer . |
| 30 | We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip . |