Example sentences of "[adv] we had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly we had a half-decent car . |
| 2 | Obviously we had a few injuries at the start of the season , so hopefully we can go from strength to strength now . |
| 3 | So we had a we stopped in there , we were only gon na have one in there but it was alright in there , we had a nice table and that so we had a good natter |
| 4 | So we had a nice chat . |
| 5 | Erm , we 'd had a meeting prior to going so we had a fair idea of you know , we kind of got together and shared some thoughts before we , before we went . |
| 6 | So we had a big sandwich you know with salad and with crisps and that on the side and the hot chocolate and it was five pound . |
| 7 | And so we had a proper argument about this , of course he was a grown up man , I were only a kid you know . |
| 8 | Tonight we had a little concert from a first-class military band . |
| 9 | anyway we had a nice trip up past and back through Prestwich and all round . |
| 10 | ‘ All join up for a conga , ’ I called over the racket , and soon we had a long snake winding its way in and out of the tables and finally through the door . |
| 11 | About an hour before reaching Jura dark clouds began to roll over on us from its lofty peaks , and soon we had a perfect torrent of rain . |
| 12 | We stay at the Gasthaus Drei Kronen on the Landstrasse near Linz , where I am impotent , and once we had a romantic weekend at the Hotel Gretchen in Vienna , where I was impotent . |
| 13 | Luckily we had a strong team and managed to gain a lot of points which ultimately clinched it for us . ’ |
| 14 | We asked around , and eventually we had a tremendous stroke of luck . |
| 15 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 16 | Ten minutes later we had a garbled appeal to the outside world from a Danuese patriot , mentioning injustices , famine , and the burning desire of a people to be free . |
| 17 | We sold quite substantially locally but also we had a reasonable export business . |
| 18 | Yeah , I said , I honestly ca n't believe , yeah , I said I though we had a good working relationship |
| 19 | Well we had a wonderful time at Marks and Sparks . |
| 20 | Well we had a lovely walk in the er water gardens at Pocklington . |
| 21 | Well we had a few problems did n't we ? |
| 22 | Yeah I mean we did insert actually in the Chairman 's statement a cautionary note about the credit announcement because two years ago we had a similar increase which in fact by the time we got to the end of the year had disappeared so we view it with a lot of caution is the answer if you ask me to be more precise I ca n't because we 've never really had a set of tax increases the like of which we face now any other questions ? |
| 23 | A few weeks ago we had a classic example of that in a debate on the Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill . |
| 24 | Unfortunately we had a major breakdown with the car , and were stuck in a tiny village with our tent and no transport . |
| 25 | Unfortunately we had a few lapses of concentration at the start of the second half and you just ca n't afford that against a team as good as Australia . |
| 26 | times for auctioning though was er when shops went bankrupt , er especially chocolate shops , cos then we had a good time after he 'd done because we usually got loads of chocolate which was a luxury . . |
| 27 | not particularly my cup of tea but mum enjoyed them and they got everybody going and and then we had a good game of bingo . |
| 28 | false at first and then we had a big discussion about it . |
| 29 | Then we had a little talk , but it did not end there . |
| 30 | If he was to sing to you guvnor , and then we had a little collection , now that would n't be begging now would it ? ’ |