Example sentences of "we [vb past] have " in BNC.

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1 Those kids we saw have assassinated all hope .
2 But we did have fun .
3 In spite of our happy experiences with SBA , the electronic throttle and the electronic linkage , we did have some problems with the Same 's performance monitor .
4 Five years of therapy later , I realise what a lot of ‘ work ’ we did have to do to understand the underlying reasons for my eating disorder , and for many other things in my life , and also to have a wider understanding of eating disorders in general and what they are about .
5 We did have a short time to show off whatever skills we had managed to acquire .
6 We did have a very broad search , ’ adds Whittaker .
7 We did have hopes of being re-equipped for this Tripoli show , ’ — by coincidence he was writing on the very day Tripoli fell — ‘ but they did n't materialise , so we shall have to seek the bubble reputation elsewhere .
8 But still , we did have several holidays together and I had assumed that one day we would get married .
9 We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it .
10 We did have them , for County Hall had sent us the list of these hospitals and their separate functions .
11 Working out the visibility was easier as we did have guidelines here — a tree on the other side of the airfield was at 1,000 yards , a distant farmhouse 2 miles , and if you could n't see the briefing room it was foggy .
12 Of course we did have gangs , as do as other places : London , Birmingham , Manchester , Liverpool , Cardiff , etc .
13 It helps if you keep the place tidy and regularly mucked out , and we did have one which kept its bed and its toilet place quite separate .
14 We did have a couple of suicides , but I soon put a stop to that .
15 I grew up in an area that did n't have any live theatre to speak of , but we did have a local cinema house , and I was just in awe of this thing called the cinema .
16 We did have a boys ' night out with Tim Cooper of the Evening Standard .
17 But we did have a lot of fun . ’
18 Yet even so , the dispensary was busy every day , and we did have a great deal of work , dealing with the humdrum , everyday ailments — yaws , measles , ‘ flu and accidents — accepted by the Polynesians with a philosophical resignation , as though they were saying , ‘ This is the price we pay for living in paradise . ’
19 Alan Calladine , PRO for the line said : ‘ We did have some slight operating difficulties on the Sunday but overall we were pleased with the way the event ran .
20 and I feel that if we did have stock then then we would erm sell it .
21 ‘ When The Group left , ’ says Nicky , ‘ we did have the problem of how to keep body and soul together .
22 But we did have to wait until the chimpanzees completely accepted out presence before we were able to observe the other food-gathering behaviour that truly sets apart the forest chimpanzees — regular co-operative hunting .
23 You actually make up a structure like this tetraneedle carbon we did have another one but er , obviously there 's some students have erm decided to do something different with the er things that 's all that 's left !
24 We did have committees and we began to coordinate activities and er careers conventions suddenly sprouted engineering council 's banners and the people all got together again under these banners and we went to these careers conventions and tried to obviously put across the image of engineering itself .
25 Well that Actually that 's on my disk cos we did have two the the disk partitioned and it 's my half of it that 's got a meg and a half left .
26 Now we did have a little bit of that , I would say er leave it leave it till you 've got the other stuff pretty well sorted out .
27 But we did have a church near us , and that church had a school .
28 However , what I can do is try to present to you some of the points of view we tried to draw together in that group because we did have someone who is a proprietor of a private home ; we had people from health ; we had people from social work ; we had people from housing ; we had people from different interest groups who approached the issue in different ways .
29 We did n't have an explosion but we did have a big fire .
30 My brother tt he er had a bicycle and then he joined up , er we did have a hectic time , he could make anything go .
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