Example sentences of "we [vb past] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were all aware we 'd made a total cock-up . |
| 2 | Nick had tried to get his US Tour card that year and we 'd played a few times in America . |
| 3 | Er , well , the extra costs was two million a year er , and at the end of the first six months in the first year we 'd , we 'd , we 'd achieved a million extra revenue , so it looks as if we 've paid for it . |
| 4 | And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there . |
| 5 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'd hired a camper van to get around ’ , Nigel explains . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd hired a camper van to get around , ’ Nigel explains . |
| 8 | We 'd taken a small local boat — built for four people but with 15 on board not to mention some pigs and chickens — out to an island . |
| 9 | We 'd taken a small local boat — built for four people but with 15 on board not to mention some pigs and chickens — out to an island . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 11 | We 'd got a good relationship with the council . ’ |
| 12 | I thought we 'd got a good team . |
| 13 | and we 'd got a little old fellow with us , you know , well built very not very big but broad as what he was long . |
| 14 | And I suppose if we 'd got a clean sheet , and we started again , we 'd do it differently . |
| 15 | He told us we 'd got a yellow streak a yard wide down our backs . |
| 16 | ‘ After we 'd had a nice dinner together , we 'd go into Richard 's studio and we 'd put on music . |
| 17 | So anyway we 'd had a good look round and this ch church warden said hey you 'd better go and get some seats cos it 's going to get . |
| 18 | Erm , on appendix B , erm there is an item which erm members of the committee erm will know about very well it 's the laboratory services that we give and have a great relate to them , erm the item goes under seven I believe , the figures there have dropped , is that because we 'd had a successful income erm there , we 've got a hundred and ten thousand for both up ninety two and ninety three and ninety , sorry ninety two three and ninety three ninety four , is it that er , could we know or are we estimating that we 're going to get a nice income because we have been told in earlier reports that this is quite a good slice of income to us and those figures are amended accordingly is that right ? |
| 19 | Our own particular case is our case went to the High Court some three hundred thousand pounds , when perhaps if we 'd had a dedicated pensions act setting out what could and could not be done , that would never have happened . |
| 20 | Although we we 'd had a modest week in terms of routes , we 'd found enough delight and challenge in the sunlit silence of the valley and the peaks — and now we knew the full potential of the place . |
| 21 | We 'd had a little car before he got there . |
| 22 | ‘ That we 'd had a short but intense affair , and when we 'd met again and realised we still felt the same about each other you 'd revealed how Thomas was mine . ’ |
| 23 | Cos I did n't know how we 'd of managed if we 'd had a big one ! |
| 24 | We 'd had a huge rally of 10,000 people for Ronald Reagan at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and I was flying on to Los Angeles with one of the co-ordinators the next morning . |
| 25 | Actually the tea shop benefited slightly , because we 'd introduced a new line of rock cakes that week , and some rioters came round to buy them to throw at middle class people . ’ |
| 26 | And after I 'd explained , and we 'd laughed a good deal , and taken off each others ’ wet clothes , it was . |
| 27 | At last we 'd sunk a decent putt . |
| 28 | We really thought we 'd found a quicker way to get copies to our distant subscribers . |
| 29 | By now we had reached a delectable small pool hidden away in willow trees : Willow Pool . |
| 30 | One afternoon we had made a forced march around the local countryside with our rucksacks on . |