Example sentences of "[coord] we had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Alan came home as a Little Lord Fauntleroy , and we had a new baby brother , Geoff . |
| 3 | I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh . |
| 4 | ‘ He linked up well with Stuart Pearce and Nigel Clough , and we had a good run of success . |
| 5 | We had a good spring and we had a good set in year . |
| 6 | It was so neat and we had a good time . |
| 7 | ‘ He is a good golfer and we had a good time . ’ |
| 8 | I was happy at school , with lots of friends , and we had a good time . |
| 9 | ‘ This was a nice place before gambling came back and we had a good tourist trade until Costner arrived . ’ |
| 10 | And we had a nice coach this time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And we had a small bonfire in a way of small twigs and all that . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And we had a round pie chart and it was split into all different hours . |
| 20 | I would n't insult their intelligence by lying and we had a healthy respect for each other . |
| 21 | They were as good as we could make them , we felt , and we had a long think . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Britain had always performed well in this competition and we had a strong team once again . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | My father was a miner but loved his garden and we had a big smallholding |
| 29 | The black and there was all cement drawn and everything and we had a big table in there and he just carried on he did n't make shoes and he died when he was er , well he had a bad stroke and , and he was in the other room for seven years . |
| 30 | And then my parents had a big er lean- to built at the side of the house and we had a full size billiard table in there . |