Example sentences of "we have a big " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ca n't we have a big conversation , please , juice and , oh |
| 2 | We 've a big mechanical saw up the end there . |
| 3 | We had a big management shakeup in BHS when I could see that certain people were just not going to change their spots . |
| 4 | We had a big Christmas tree once — ages ago , it was . |
| 5 | We had a big family conference tonight about Our Giving . |
| 6 | Gilbert : ‘ When we had a big exhibition at the Hayward Gallery , 80 works , only three or four had a penis in it . ’ |
| 7 | We had a big garden , but I insisted that the children must have variety in their surroundings . |
| 8 | Right , okay , the other thing I was going to ask about we , we had a big promotion of Amnesty by The Body Shop , last year , er and we noticed that Our Price were also going to do promotion of Amnesty and we asked , wonder if we look into local shops and see what they could find out and what was going on , did you find anything ? |
| 9 | Yes I mean , I think that we had a big discussion at the last area committee on the scheme and the problem was of course that the detailed plans er , for the consultation erm to the , I 'm at , I 'm a bit worried that at this late stage there 's this new idea of of building on the green wedge at the back and I would n't like to think that the scheme should be delayed the important thing , it seems to me , is that it should press ahead and |
| 10 | pretty good in those days , two pounds a week which helped things out and er although we had a big family of eleven of us , including mum and dad , er contributi contr contributions from them where , well , whatever they could make , a shilling here and a shilling there . |
| 11 | My father was a miner but loved his garden and we had a big smallholding |
| 12 | Later in the war , when sugar was very strictly rationed , we had a big barrel of molasses , a thick syrup , in the small warehouse . |
| 13 | I suppose about one and a half yards , perhaps not that , square and in the corner there was what they called , what we had the copper for boiling the clothes , make it with small coal and , and coal and wood and paper and boil the water and , and my mother used to do the washing there and we had a big old mangle with wooden rollers out in the back yard , that was always out in the back yard . |
| 14 | You see well the point was when you pick 'em up erm we had a sm we had a big boat , what we called hanger boat , a very heavy boat and that used to have a wooden so therefore we used to pull it up by hand and pull it ove on a little barrel with a hand power that 's what we used to do and once we got the anchor in board we 'd pull the chain in by hand and then rerun it again right on to the mud and on the anchor again . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You know our our putting up the pistons more or less a which is we had a big of er Tommy would know what I meant and I would know what he meant . |
| 17 | very moving but we had a big big time and of course when you 're eighteen , er it 'd be an adventure . |
| 18 | See if I was fetching anything or anything like that Oh we had an awfu we we had a big stock er big stock you know . |
| 19 | On Whit Bank Holiday we had a big turnout of 24 member volunteers . |
| 20 | We had a big Welcome Home banner signed by everyone . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | we had a big , we had a big do you want a and a drink of milk ? |
| 23 | we had a big , we had a big do you want a and a drink of milk ? |
| 24 | Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ? |
| 25 | He said er we had a big hoo hah he said er I borrowed some money off him he said some time ago to do something with and I had n't got the money he said and when I sold the plot of land he said I paid him back what I owed him cos borrow the money . |
| 26 | We had a big shelter |
| 27 | false at first and then we had a big discussion about it . |
| 28 | erm We had a big screen and the atmosphere was absolutely tremendous — right up to the last minute as you said , with three points in it , it was very tense . |
| 29 | My blue period officially ends when we have a big leaving party for Kathleen and Katrina in a couple of days ' time but in fact it probably ends just about now . |
| 30 | ‘ We have a big squad here and a big wage bill , ’ said Bonds , who is eager to loan out players in the hope of off-loading them permanently . |