Example sentences of "[coord] we have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She-She : " If you give the fifty cash , then seventy-five on the card plus the credit supplement which is 15 per cent else we lose on the rental or we have a spa-cheque policy which works out the same minus the 15 per cent with a ten-dollar supplement .
2 Sometimes we have problems finding a referee , or the perfect referee has gone to sea for a month , or the referee loses the figures and takes three weeks to ask for copies , or we have a furious debate over a paper at the hanging committee and decide that we need another specialist opinion .
3 Cos I 've been silly in the past , I 've told Evelyn lots of times and we had a new machine , a rapid na nailer , it er nailed er army sho er soles onto the at five hun it used to do three hundred and fifty nails a minute and we m made one just for I er went out on the road , er to five hundred a minute you see , and er we were building the first half a dozen and er er there 's two pawls at the back of the machine
4 Alan came home as a Little Lord Fauntleroy , and we had a new baby brother , Geoff .
5 I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh .
6 ‘ He linked up well with Stuart Pearce and Nigel Clough , and we had a good run of success .
7 We had a good spring and we had a good set in year .
8 It was so neat and we had a good time .
9 ‘ He is a good golfer and we had a good time . ’
10 I was happy at school , with lots of friends , and we had a good time .
11 ‘ This was a nice place before gambling came back and we had a good tourist trade until Costner arrived . ’
12 And we had a nice coach this time .
13 She seemed very nice and I thought she could act and we had a nice rapport , but I said to Sam , ‘ I just feel she 's the wrong type for a guy who 's a teacher in college .
14 They all stayed over and we had a superb Sunday lunch at the Garden House Hotel , lazing around until late afternoon when we went our separate ways .
15 First , I went round to her pad with my video and we had a great laugh looking at Glenys Kinnock on the verge of tears contemplating the ruin of her husband 's career .
16 ‘ We both spent most of our time working on the film , walking or sitting about in our dressing gowns and we had a great time together . ’
17 The farm runs nearly 3,000 sheep and we had a great deal of interest represented by 641 enquiries , 46 viewers and ten who were seriously interested . ’
18 And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again .
19 And we had a small bonfire in a way of small twigs and all that .
20 I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly .
21 And we had a round pie chart and it was split into all different hours .
22 I would n't insult their intelligence by lying and we had a healthy respect for each other .
23 They were as good as we could make them , we felt , and we had a long think .
24 er , I did n't see a nun at , most of them were just ordinary nursing staff , just popped in to see how I was and we had a long chat about
25 Arran buses have printed timetables but , as in all islands , clocks are set to boat times and we had a long wait , an identikit American family and myself .
26 If anybody wants a fire certificate and we had a recent case where a notable local solicitor asked us to issue a fire certificate and we refused , because his premises does not require one , or did not at that point require a fire certificate .
27 Protectionism since the Second World War , particularly , erm , has grown rapidly , however , there was , you know , we , agricultural protectionism is n't a thing erm , is n't a , a recent phenomenon , agricultural protectionism was around in the U K er , in the last century , eighteen twenties , erm , the , the corn laws , as they , as they were called , that was erm , a major , major set of tariffs on imports of er wheat primarily into the U K , prior , prior to that erm , in the seventeenth century , in sort of sixteen hundreds , alright , the U K used to be a net exporter , of our wheat , and we had a comparative advantage in those , in those times .
28 Britain had always performed well in this competition and we had a strong team once again .
29 He is a great walker now — distance no object — and we had a fine time looking at all the things the canal had to offer , including frozen puddles and flying swans .
30 My father was a miner but loved his garden and we had a big smallholding
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