Example sentences of "we had [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had reached level ground so winching was relatively easy . |
| 2 | If we had selected different base categories , we could have ended up with negative values of d . |
| 3 | We had shot clean over the bergschrund . |
| 4 | We had made good time and had to ease speed to avoid closing the island in darkness . |
| 5 | ‘ If we had made political statements , Asterix would be too French . |
| 6 | By June we had made sufficient progress for me to tell the House of Commons that we intended to move against the ‘ frozen ’ pension . |
| 7 | If we had made different choices , we might have different industries , different types of towns and a different countryside . |
| 8 | We had covered large distances both on-road and off the road , totally independent of public transport . |
| 9 | It was next door to the Infants School but we had heard terrifying stories about life there . |
| 10 | For more than a week we had suffered high-pressure gloom in the south of England but on the day of my flight we enjoyed 8/8 blue with not a bump in the air — Wing Commander 's weather ! |
| 11 | Among all our other irresistible attractions we had advertised free fishing in the River Meloch and the millpond , and a prospective holiday-maker asked , over the telephone , what kind of fish were to be found there . |
| 12 | I think it 's time we bivouacked ’ , I muttered , when we had struggled free of the rope . |
| 13 | And , of course , after we had become used to them , we wanted more . |
| 14 | Over the previous twenty years we had become preoccupied with structural arguments about regions and areas when we should have been concerned about how the service was run . |
| 15 | Quite simply , like millions of other people , we had become sedentary . |
| 16 | However , we had seen lively debates on aspects of a part of consumer credit with which many are not too familiar , debates which had illustrated well that there was more to the ‘ credit bargain ’ than the headline APR figure , and which had dispelled some long-held prejudices . |
| 17 | When our first Report on the primary stages was submitted to Mr Baker at the end of September 1988 , he felt that we had given insufficient emphasis to the teaching of grammar . |
| 18 | We had gone prepared for any questions he might ask , together with all the official documents regarding planning permission etc. and a collection of excellent photographic evidence of how we had set up the museum regarding exhibits etc. , taken by our good friend Russell Mulford . |
| 19 | It 's proving to be a strain , both financially and physically — since we are doing as much of the work ourselves as possible — and our friends were convinced for some time that we had gone mad ! |
| 20 | There a lady showed us to our seats , once we had got comfortable we were shown a safety routine by the stewardesses . |
| 21 | I put in the usual request for official clearance through the valve and was pleased to find that we had got lucky . |
| 22 | We had experienced great difficulty in procuring bearers and mules , since a small war was raging in valleys and hills . |
| 23 | On Wednesday we had improved retail sales figures . |
| 24 | In Opposition we had had great fun pursuing Bill Rodgers on the standard of the baked beans and the quality of the fried cod . |
| 25 | ‘ When we visited the Ukraine , we had had great difficulty in explaining what a piper looks and sounds like , ’ said Peter . |
| 26 | In transport , then , Margaret Thatcher 's first Government extended privatization far beyond what we had thought possible in Opposition , but there was no doubt what was the jewel in the crown . |
| 27 | The music panellist said : ‘ If there had been a full panel meeting and if we had known certain things which were kept from us the decision might have been different . |
| 28 | If we had found good reason to say no , to the first question , there are implications for how we say no to the second question . |
| 29 | We spent Chairman , two and a half hours discussing this matter at that point and we had come full circle back to point 1 . |
| 30 | We had spent anxious weeks in Prague watching each puffy , white cloud that graced the azure sky with the hopeful eyes of a child waiting for Christmas . |