Example sentences of "we had [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the same island we had visited on my first trip . |
| 2 | I had witnessed Sister Kenny 's unusual treatment when I went to see her at work at Queen Mary 's Hospital for Children in Carshalton , one of several hospitals we had visited during our advanced student days . |
| 3 | Often , when I was cycling through the camp after coming off duty , I would spy Thursby in the distance beavering along , head down against the gale , full of eagerness to get back on the job and spot any mistakes we had made during his absence . |
| 4 | We discussed the present situation and the representations that we had made to the People 's Republic of China , and I reaffirmed the fact that I would continue to make such representations . |
| 5 | He said that was fine and that he knew that the sails would be as good as the last suit that we had made for him . |
| 6 | We turned and descended slowly to the tracks we had made on the ascent earlier that morning , then sloughed our way down . |
| 7 | And this is erm this is a pot that we had made after much |
| 8 | We were referred to as ‘ sinister ’ and this made me see how little impact we had made upon the establishment and how much further we needed to go . |
| 9 | The vows we had made in the heat of our desire we had not kept . |
| 10 | ‘ We certainly surprised a lot of people and I think we may even have surprised ourselves by the progress we had made in a relatively short time . ’ |
| 11 | In fact such contact as we had consisted of nothing but bad feeling on one side ( his ) and bemusement on mine . |
| 12 | One of the most interesting line-ups we had consisted of Judi Dench , Alan Bates and Michael Hordern . |
| 13 | We had planned on selling the Tri-Pacer in Australia , but after 202 hours , 44 stops and 25,749 kilometres in it , we decided to take it home . |
| 14 | ‘ We had planned for 170 000 quintals for the six months … we distributed all we had . ’ |
| 15 | Ian Catley , the National Fund-raising Manager for the Macmillan Nurse Appeal , which is Johnson Matthey 's Charity of the Year asked what events we had planned in order to raise funds for this most worthy of charities . |
| 16 | But when we got there we found that the mountain we had perceived from the map to be the Cathedral , and which everyone else had perceived to be the Cathedral , was in fact another mountain altogether . |
| 17 | Don was low , little more than bare bones , and there was no point in fishing for salmon ; so we had decided to trout fish . |
| 18 | It seemed that we could just about raise the amount of the offer we had decided upon and still avoid bankruptcy . |
| 19 | I ca n't remember at the policy and resources why it was decided by a majority because in in replying to this report on making our comments to this report , I first had consultations with officers to go through some of the items that we had done and issues that we had covered in this authority especially the members ' services sub committee and we knocked off the bare bones of er a report to the policy and resources committee and the policy . |
| 20 | I explained we had searched for Horne but could not find him . ’ |
| 21 | With John Neil we had ventured to the head of a glacier , on the west side of Chong Kumdan , to prospect a possible route . |
| 22 | The fact that we had ventured into disputed territory meant nothing to my father . |
| 23 | replace any red sky we had hoped for , |
| 24 | So there was only one helicopter instead of two , which meant less heliskiing than we had hoped for . |
| 25 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 26 | Mr Walker , who had vowed he would have to be evicted with the family , said : ‘ We had hoped for a stay of execution to allow the family to depart with dignity , but the Scottish Office handled the request in the same way as they have handled the whole affair — with massive insensitivity . |
| 27 | We had hoped to be married in the middle of December , but in the first week of that month , Leslie wrote : ‘ Can you stand by to shift the date to , say , 22nd December ? |
| 28 | We had hoped to be able to support measures on so-called joyriding , on the establishment of an Environmental Protection Agency and on better employment conditions for women , but it appears that the Prime Minister 's enthusiasm for this last came too recently for its inclusion in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 29 | There , I would dissect the brains into the same crudely defined regions we had adopted for the imprinting studies and do the biochemistry . |
| 30 | Tom Curran , deputy director of Wirral social services department , said : ‘ If , in the first place , we had said to people they did not meet the criteria and did not put their names on the waiting list , we would be in less trouble . ’ |