Example sentences of "which we had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a homoeopathic meeting which we had attended in London , we went to visit a psionic practitioner in the southern counties to learn a little more about this subject . |
| 2 | Erm we have we had in in this particular set of accounts thirty five pounds on two occasions for rooms er which we had to let go and computer data er which is still being processed I understand at a cost of forty pounds . |
| 3 | I remember that we did n't have a tap in the house but used a communal tap from which we had to fill two barrels in our garden . |
| 4 | Even after we moved up , we still begged her to carry on letting the cottage , and later we built another one , up the hill , on the site of a collapsed pigsty for which we had inherited planning permission . |
| 5 | We could hardly get inside for rubbish and could n't see the floor , it was all dirt , and there used to be two or three benches on which we had to sit down ; then old Morgan would read the Bible to us and pray , we had to kneel down — oh what a dry lesson . |
| 6 | it had been a great patrol during which we had made a lot of new friends , carried out a great deal of work en route and broken into completely new territory for the cutters . |
| 7 | We were interested to examine the adhesive properties of E coli which we had isolated in studies of the flora closely associated with the rectal mucosa , a flora in which the expression of adhesins and other adhesion associated characteristics might be expected to be favoured or prerequisite , and to compare our results with those reported for faecal isolates . |
| 8 | I have looked up my own record over the past six months , and I find that the only courthouse whose closure I approved was in Leicestershire and was precisely 500 yd from a new courthouse costing £8 million which we had erected to take its place . |
| 9 | At last , but not until May 1941 , did the much-feared message which we had prayed never to receive , arrive . |
| 10 | We 're going to talk to you about er Farm project and its basic problems which we had to put a programme together and er make the job |
| 11 | Unfortunately , difficulties with the environmental conditions of the area which we had intended to use mean that we will now have to modify our plans . |
| 12 | Mr Rusk replied that the inference that the United States had decided to abandon the Republic of Korea to its enemies was scarcely warranted in the light of the substantial material aid and political support which we had furnished and were furnishing to that Republic . |
| 13 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 14 | On one such incident I was in command of Venturous patrolling in the Straits of Dover at the end of a very busy Bank Holiday , during which we had followed a suspect yacht from just outside Calais , and handed her over to our special unit in Dover . |
| 15 | We were therefore delighted the Secretary of State rejected British Coal 's plan for a major opencast mine at Pwll Du near Blaenavon , which we had opposed . |
| 16 | In order to be sure that our data would be as reliable as possible a decision was made to report only on those countries from which we had received at least three questionnaires among which there was a high level of agreement . |
| 17 | Few of us felt any sympathy for them , because apart from the beatings which we had received on their accounts , we all knew the rules by now , and being caught and failing in any way was wrong . |
| 18 | We were offered Arabian tea which we HAD to drink ( unfortunately ) but thereafter were offered tea — black with sugar but not too strong . |
| 19 | ‘ My brother , Mark , is on one song which we had cut a while ago and it wound up going on the record because it was such a good demo . ’ |
| 20 | Now Heathcliff would hear about his son 's arrival , which we had hoped to keep secret from him . |
| 21 | It was the Labour party 's supply-side policies , including its industrial relations policies — all of which we had to reverse — which did such damage in the 1970s . |
| 22 | A very light northerly wind wafted us round the moored yacht on which we had marooned the photographer . |
| 23 | The car which we had ordered to take us to the station never appeared , and we travelled instead in a dilapidated tonga . |
| 24 | Simonds notes that ‘ Nearly opposite to St Pancras Church stood a Toll-Bar , and to prevent horsemen avoiding payment , some posts were erected on the footpath , between which we had to pass . |
| 25 | We stayed only one night in Luxor before turning downriver again to visit the great temples of Abydos and Dendera which we had passed on the barge . |
| 26 | At the first personal growth workshop I ever attended , I still recall an exercise in which we had to write down our faults and weaknesses , what we disliked about ourselves . |
| 27 | This did not fit with the idea of ‘ collaborative activities ’ which we had set out with because we had formulated our questions in terms of the teacher 's decision making . |
| 28 | I was deeply shocked , for I had not been at all prepared for this sudden and tragic end to the adventure on which we had set out so gaily some twenty months before . |
| 29 | ‘ We achieved the objective through the perseverence of our trained negotiator who was able to talk to the man through a telephone communication which we had set up . ’ |
| 30 | To my delight , thirty minutes after training on the bitter bead there was a substantial increase in the amount of the receptor in the same region of the brain in which we had found changes during imprinting . |