Example sentences of "we had [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn . |
| 2 | On 4 May 1987 a bank holiday Monday , we had just settled down to lunch before watching A Man for all Seasons . |
| 3 | In effect this was a period of withdrawal from a rigidly structured police world to a world turned upside down ; where , in a ‘ counter-cultural ’ way , we were to find that the strict terms of reference we had carefully built up over the years no longer seemed to have relevance . |
| 4 | ‘ I wish we had never come back to this house . |
| 5 | Out with the carp rods again and straight into fish — we had now caught somewhere in the region of eighty fish between us all on boilies ( which was n't bad considering they do n't eat them remember ) up to around 17lb . |
| 6 | When I told him we had recently come up from Southampton he said , " Gee , I would n't go to sea in that little tub for double my wages . " |
| 7 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 8 | Diana seemed distressed , rushing around in a distracted way — oblivious , it seemed to me , of the work we had all put in for her brother 's wedding . |
| 9 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 10 | We took off on time , but we had unknowingly booked on to the milk run . |