Example sentences of "we had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The contributors we had are all kind of double-0-seven , cloak-and-dagger types ’ , explained Krishna Littledale , one of the enticers of funds ; ‘ … if you talk very quietly and tell them they ca n't tell anyone about this conference , they will give you a lot more money . ’ |
| 2 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 3 | I knew the face and knew at once that we had been intimate , but I had no idea who she was . |
| 4 | One of the things we had been told was to carry any valuables we had around with us so that they could n't go astray . |
| 5 | We had been herded together to discuss this and other issues by Dr Derek Booth , animal geneticist and scientist . |
| 6 | His tinnitus did not , as we had been led to believe , oblige him to spend the concert inside a perspex box ; he leapt across the stage , knees at 90-degree angles , for much of its three hour span . |
| 7 | ‘ They say that it was a mistake that we had been told that the outbreak was due to Salmonella enteriditis , ’ she said . |
| 8 | Earlier we had been told that some ‘ lascivious ’ nudes were ‘ a sign of increasing decadence at the centre of an inflexible regime ’ , a phrase with some deeply troubling echoes of vocabulary . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's right , ’ replied the other Commando , ‘ If we had been screwed down by these Nazi bastards for four years , we would be doing more than pinching their boots . ’ |
| 10 | We had been led to expect all the guillemots , but there were no black guillemots either on the ledges or in the sea . |
| 11 | ‘ For years we had been trying to lower and streamline the bonnets of front-engined cars and the mid-engined configuration allowed us to obtain an extremely low nose , deeply recessed between sculpted front wings that sloped down to the headlights , which were contained in a plexiglass fairing to continue the line . |
| 12 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 13 | As it is the hay and silage season , we had been going non-stop since dawn . |
| 14 | And in understanding the old picture so vividly , he has prepared us to appreciate , and to understand , many things which we either could not previously have hoped to understand , or which we had been looking at with half-open eyes . |
| 15 | ‘ The particulars we had been given referred to an estate of 680 acres having four cottages and a stone house … |
| 16 | Far from reducing taxation , as we had been elected to do , we would have to raise it — and raise it at a time when local councils were already pushing up rates . |
| 17 | In spite of the best efforts of the health service , we had been unable to persuade the public that by far the bigger danger was of children not being inoculated . |
| 18 | With pensions we had been open about holding an inquiry . |
| 19 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 20 | One day , after we had been working together all afternoon without much success , Dana without warning lay back on the bed , his head on the pillow . |
| 21 | We had been careful until then not to think that way . |
| 22 | We had been conducting the German youths on tours of our favourite places in the city — to the bullring , the restaurants , the bars , the River Tormes , the Casa de Santa Teresa , the Antiguo Colegio Mayor de Iriandeses , San Martin ( where we were nearly locked in for the night ) and to the conventual church of San Esteban . |
| 23 | I forget what we had been talking and arguing about , but probably it was something connected with our continuing confusions about poetry and sex . |
| 24 | I remember one instance , after we had been making love , when he took my hands very tenderly and turned them this way and that , pressing them gently , kissing the palms and the wrists . |
| 25 | Last night , while sitting doing my ration of embroidery , I thought of what we had been talking about — the paying guest , and have come to the conclusion that you ought not to undertake such a responsibility as you have had such a difficult time in one way and another with sickness and trouble . |
| 26 | I had invited everyone I could think of to tea , and we had been invited back , but it was not her style , and when she complained that it was not right for her ‘ to be living among all these old people ’ I understood very well what she meant . |
| 27 | We had been childhood friends , not from deep affection , or even from admiration , but because we were the same sort of person and trusted one another . |
| 28 | We had been waiting all Genesis for words like those . |
| 29 | On the debit side we have dropped one day on the calving interval to 376 days , although not a disaster we had been trying to improve that but our heifers are calving at 28 months instead of two years three months . |
| 30 | In the same way , the ears , which we had been led to believe revealed the horse 's emotions , are not really good indicators of a horse 's feelings on their own . |