Example sentences of "we had [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now we had reached a delectable small pool hidden away in willow trees : Willow Pool . |
| 2 | We had reached an idyllic Norwegian scene . |
| 3 | We had reached the Palestinian front line . |
| 4 | We had reached the famous gannetry . |
| 5 | We had reached the last door . |
| 6 | Not long after we had reached the Old parsonage and climbed the stairs to Michael 's rooms , Father D'Arcy arrived . |
| 7 | One afternoon we had made a forced march around the local countryside with our rucksacks on . |
| 8 | The hotel had much to keep youngsters occupied , but by day three we realised we had made a bad mistake in taking such a young child skiing . |
| 9 | He explained that we had made a grave error — it was Saturday afternoon . |
| 10 | ‘ But who knows what would have happened if we had made the early breakthrough tonight ? |
| 11 | We were convinced we had witnessed a terrible accident and hurried to the police station at Lochcarron to report the incident , there to be reassured that there had not been a crash , and gently rebuked for assuming there had been . |
| 12 | Originally , we had planned a National Certificate programme in Accounting and Information Studies , but when the general SVQ was announced , we decided to combine the two , so our students will get both awards . |
| 13 | We had planned an easier second day with some early climbing , then we had decided to follow the contours around and up Mount Cedric , ending with a descent to Lake Rotoroa . |
| 14 | Very tired but excited that we had covered a third of our journey . |
| 15 | We had created a colourful , well-lit , attractive , atmospheric setting out of virtually nothing . |
| 16 | The readership survey confirmed our belief that we had created a high quality magazine , with many readers saying they found it attractive , colourful and easy to read . |
| 17 | Will he confirm that if we had adopted a scatter-gun approach to benefits , as the Labour Government did , the substantial improvements in help for the disabled since 1979 would not have been possible ? |
| 18 | But once we had digested the British skills , we took them over . |
| 19 | We found we had done the right thing : Mr Murray was partial to a wee whiskey . |
| 20 | We had done the unforgivable , striking back , disabling a Famlio ship , maybe killing Famlio people . |
| 21 | He was not told which chick was in which group until we had completed the entire first series of experiments ( this is our normal lab practice — where possible , especially when two of us are involved in the experiment , to run the work ‘ blind ’ until after the data are analysed , to avoid the possibility of unconscious bias ) . |
| 22 | By the end of the lesson we had completed the sixth month . |
| 23 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
| 24 | We had devised a new social security system which was intended to last . |
| 25 | We had ticked the best three routes on the cliff and were well pleased with our day : a buttress , a crack and an overhang , all of peerless quality . |
| 26 | The seventy strong press and media corps were in the rear of the Prime Minister 's plane and we had arranged a special area and platform for them in the terminal . |
| 27 | On the fifth dawn we hurried on deck to confirm my certainty that at last we had rounded the south-western point of Sulawesi , and had a clear run north to Makassar . |
| 28 | We had received the full blast of his whimsicality the minute we arrived at the ancient wood-frame rectory , modernised in 1812 ( according to the brochure ) by the great-grandson of Sir Christopher Wren . |
| 29 | We had observed a uniformed man standing there , on the inside . |
| 30 | Those were exciting days and as the money began to pour in we all felt we had joined a successful crusade . |