Example sentences of "[adj] that we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them gesticulated to us and , using harsh , staccato Russian ( which neither of us understood ) and rather violent stabs into the air , made it very clear that we had taken a dangerous route over the ice and that we were very stupid indeed . |
| 2 | After we reduced the parts to three , it became clear that we had to remove the work from the centre and reduce it to two elements , which would hold the volumes of the north and the south galleries and make a linkage across the Octagon activating the entire space . |
| 3 | She took the packet with some fussy excitement , and she was clearly a little relieved when we made it clear that we had no intention of staying or seeking entrance . |
| 4 | Only you made it clear that we had no future . ’ |
| 5 | I thought that I had made it clear that we did not make a profit on the war . |
| 6 | It became clear that we needed more time and more study before we could support both Conrad 's ( 1979 ) and Meadow 's ( 1980 ) conclusions that deaf children need the early support of speech-based signing . |
| 7 | Once mother-infant interactions came to be studied in detail it became clear that we needed to reshape radically our ideas about socialization-about how children are integrated into a social world . |
| 8 | In a workshop which was being made up Then we went on to er , it was funny that we passed through London , the very s day or second day that word arrived that the invasion was on , the troops had arrived in , in Normandy . |
| 9 | The unfortunate queen , unable to take sunlight after her lengthy seclusion , was entirely swaddled in black cloth — in which she was undergoing an exercise so rigorous that we wondered if she would emerge from it alive . |
| 10 | ‘ There was some press comment , but still none of us were remotely afraid that we had done anything wrong . ’ |
| 11 | We knew these and other shows so word-perfect that we knew when a mistake was made , and noticed all the ‘ ad libs ’ put in by actors like George Robey , W. H. Berry , Alfred Lester , and Nelson Keys . ’ |
| 12 | He was obviously peeved that we 'd squared it with the music teacher while he did n't know anything about it . |
| 13 | He is 90 now , so deaf that we had to shout at him to be heard , so old that he speaks only Turkish , the language of his oppressors . |
| 14 | Indeed , we were so anxious to get the figures right that we had little time to spend explaining why what we proposed was morally necessary . |
| 15 | I saw how the well-documented material containing the truth about Fayed that we began to put before the DTI was received in embarrassed silence . |
| 16 | ‘ Katy and I were living in a small flat and we were so low that we did n't even bother with a Christmas tree . |
| 17 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're sorry that we teased you — and I promise to wear my blue headband tomorrow , ’ Sophie whispered in her ear . |
| 19 | I am sorry that we did not manage to pin the overspending of Labour authorities on those authorities and that we did not have a chance to repeat across the country the electoral triumphs that we enjoyed in Trafford , Southend , Brent , Hillingdon , Ealing , Wandsworth and Westminster . |
| 20 | The producer , Sarah D Wilson comments … ‘ the public and press reaction was so strong that we developed another seven programmes to conclude the story . |
| 21 | So let's not feel too depressed that we did n't send 20-year-olds , half from northern clubs , and half from southern ones . |
| 22 | One afternoon we became so depressed that we decided to drown our sorrows in drink . |
| 23 | Erm well it 's , i various changes in erm the upset that we had last year with the recession and |
| 24 | However , having overcome that obstacle we headed down the major road for Arad and despite the large pot holes which had to be avoided and the need to keep your eyes skinned for mobile hayricks ( horses and extremely overladen carts with no lights ) doing approximately 2 miles per hour , we arrived at our friends ' home in Arad at around 8.30 very relieved that we had reached our first destination . |
| 25 | I reckon 'e 's ate new-born babies in 'is time , so I was 'ighly relieved that we parted on friendly terms , as yer might say . ’ |
| 26 | It was most fortunate that we sailed from Cape Town at the appointed time as he had many engagements in Australia — most important the Opening of Parliament in Melbourne a day or two after his arrival . |
| 27 | well we were considered to be fortunate that we did n't , we only had a small percentage that we had a problem with |
| 28 | When we come to revise , it 's really more appropriate that we read through these |
| 29 | I 'm absolutely delighted that we achieved what we set out to do at the beginning of the week , which was to ensure that the Ryder Cup stayed on this side of the Atlantic . |
| 30 | Erm , you will remember that after the last meeting we were going to have a meeting with Mr which we , which we subsequently did have and we put forward several erm possible uses for the old hospital , including re-siting of the library , relocation of the council offices , police station , day centre for the elderly , day services for the physically disabled , for young mothers and children centre and for a mental health services centre and he was delighted that we had the meeting because he has to meet with his superiors late in December , early January , when he has been asked to put forward ideas . |