Example sentences of "we had done " in BNC.
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| 1 | In every case , he wrote , if we had done something instead of doing nothing the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 2 | In every case if we had done nothing instead of doing something the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 3 | ‘ The truth is , that whatever we had done , both the Tory laws and the procedures of the courts are totally biased against unions and working people . ’ |
| 4 | during the break , after we had done this segment of the film and had gone into the canteen for lunch , all the people who had been working on the film were whistling the song . |
| 5 | ‘ The rest of us had put up much the same , given that we had done it earlier , ’ he assured McLeish . |
| 6 | And that is precisely what we had done in Madrid . |
| 7 | If we were naughty or disobedient the nursemaid would threaten us with this man who , she said , hid at night in the high bushes by the gate , and would know what we had done and come and get us . |
| 8 | We had done our best and we lacked the peacocks , the ostriches , the slaves and the pack of hounds but nobody seemed to be worried . |
| 9 | But I was pleased that the World Bank said we had done as much in our first year as they did in their first 10 . ’ |
| 10 | Everyone has a smile and we all wanted to tell what we had done that day or planned for the next . |
| 11 | If we had but thought of vamping her with cuts , we had done the business . |
| 12 | Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months . |
| 13 | The expiry date loomed as we prepared to go to court , but to our relief Wedgwood agreed a three-year extension in recognition of the work we had done . |
| 14 | 1991 was a ‘ peculiar ’ year compared to 1988 and 1990 , Igor Landau , senior executive vice-president of the French chemical group Rhône-Poulenc , said recently , ‘ We had to begin to prove that everything that we had done makes sense ’ . |
| 15 | We found we had done the right thing : Mr Murray was partial to a wee whiskey . |
| 16 | She could n't understand why we had done such a thing . |
| 17 | I do n't suppose these efforts influenced the election in the slightest , but on the Friday we learned that Mr. Morrison had been re-elected and felt that we had done our part in ensuring his success . |
| 18 | By then , he says , ‘ we had done 1.5 years of study and we were saying , what the hell are we going to do with this ? |
| 19 | It 's quite possible that people shunned us not so much as a mark of outrage at what we had done , but to avoid the frustration of not being able to satisfy their curiosity about what exactly it was . |
| 20 | Why had n't Shamrock 's owners looked after her and loved her as we had done ? |
| 21 | ‘ Ronnie Moran shook my hand , though , and said we had done really well , while one of our directors , Bernie Coleman , said the Liverpool directors were complimentary to us . |
| 22 | And Spurs coach Doug Livermore added : ‘ It is sickening to think we had done enough and then had to leave with nothing . |
| 23 | We had told NatWest and the Bank of England , anyone we thought we should have told , what we had done . |
| 24 | ‘ There was some press comment , but still none of us were remotely afraid that we had done anything wrong . ’ |
| 25 | We told anyone we thought we should have told what we had done . |
| 26 | We were sure we had done nothing wrong . ’ |
| 27 | I was absolutely devastated because we thought we had done nothing wrong . |
| 28 | ‘ After we lost in Moscow , I ushered the team back into the locker room and locked the door before any administrators could get in and give them a load of bull about how well we had done to run the mighty red machine so close . |
| 29 | Fleischmann replied that with hindsight that might be true but ‘ in the situation we were then in , we were obliged to tell the university of the work that we had done and they perceived that they were obliged to go for patent protection at that time . |
| 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 . |