Example sentences of "we had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , after the potted shrimps we had the beef — and very good it was , too . |
| 2 | Like most new machines , everything was a tight fit and by the time we had the glider rigged , we had worn out several people with the sheer weight of the wings . |
| 3 | And this conception leads inexorably to the view that experience is like a kind of screen , something which could perhaps be painted if only we had the skill and reflective capacity , or something which could be captured by language or music . |
| 4 | But I do n't think we had the right attitude , ’ Sheila says . |
| 5 | When we had the circus the lions were put behind the screen , but we were showing an MGM picture and every time the lion at the beginning roared the lions at the back would answer him . |
| 6 | He 'd just sold his jukebox so we had the back seat piled up with records from it . |
| 7 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 8 | We had the possibility both of a management buy-out and of interest from outside the company . |
| 9 | ‘ We had the first juke-box in the town after the war , the first knickerbocker glories and the first Pepsi-Colas . ’ |
| 10 | Next we had the Treaty . |
| 11 | ‘ The NRA would just not respond to the access problems while we had the lease , ’ said Robin . |
| 12 | Nobody , including Da Silva and managing director Giovan Battista Razzeli , would say it would go into production , but ‘ we had the courage to build the SZ ’ was Da Silva 's slightly encouraging line . |
| 13 | We took the opportunity to drive the outgoing model while we had the new one and were left in no doubt about which was the driver 's car . |
| 14 | We had Stevenage Town Hall on the Friday , The Marquee on the Saturday morning and Saturday evening we had the Brummel Club in Bromley which was David 's home town at that time — we 'd received a hell of a lot of publicity for that one . |
| 15 | I was not , however , prepared to give an undertaking to bring National Service to an end until I was certain that we had the necessary voluntary enlistment . |
| 16 | In the Discovery , we had the perfect vehicle for the task . |
| 17 | Even worse , we had the Chairmen of the Whitley Councils publicly giving the same message . |
| 18 | We had the opportunity to make a fundamental change , and I could not believe that we would allow that opportunity to slip away . |
| 19 | We had the details about it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We had the flowers where my baby was . ’ |
| 21 | In Eddie Fenech-Adami 's final rally in Malta in 1981 we had the old stadium in Valetta . |
| 22 | As far as restarting the musical life in Vienna was concerned , we had the problem that the occupying forces often contradicted each other . |
| 23 | As always , we had the idea but not the money ! |
| 24 | We had Behrens , we had the designs — have you seen the set for the first performances of Salome ? |
| 25 | With the CD we had the feeling that if there was no noise in the hall we could have an even better result . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ It was at a meeting on January 17 — two days after we answered the status inquiry — that we had the first indication that the shop had decided to consult an insolvency expert . ’ |
| 27 | We could mobilise the resources and we had the moral drive . |
| 28 | We had the Astounding Reg Atkins who can juggle 12 empty bottles and then toss them accurately into a bottle bank from a distance of 30 feet so that the green , brown and clear bottles go into the correct holes . |
| 29 | ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’ |
| 30 | I suspect that if we were to take a sensate tension structure such as the love-hate paradox that lies at the heart of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet theme , we would be able to transpose it into different forms each appropriate to a particular culture , and , provided we had the necessary skill of course , we would be able to do this for all cultures in the world . |