Example sentences of "[coord] [no cls] we had a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 My mother used to do the washing for the Americans , and er we had a photographer friend of ours that used to bring the washing-up to the house , which the story is in the book .
2 And er we had a plan for to build a building with er dressing accommodation and er this was gon na cost seven thousand pound when we could n't face it , we thought that there were far more important things to deal with than that when we had housing , we had just had a housing report which said that two thousand houses in the town were not up to the modern standard .
3 And it was a great tragedy cos er it did i i it did cause the general strike and er we had a week of the general strike .
4 These were er in , in its infancy then and er we had a soup kitchen and er we , we got soup once a day , when we got issued with it .
5 As a matter of fact , that what they were lacking in and we er we had a driller and er we had a driller and er horizontal lather for turning and a grinder , when I say grinder I mean emery wheel , and that 's about all we 'd got in the shop .
6 But erm we had a sort of a spectrum you know it covered such a wide well area if you like of er of engineering that one would n't have had a chance to have a any contact with in in any other works , you 'd be doing as one certain sphere you know a certain type of work , and there you are you that 's your lot eh ?
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