Example sentences of "we [vb past] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Then came more accidents — we seemed to have a large number of accidents in the 1950s and early 1960s and many of them finished up as public inquiries .
2 It certainly contributed in a more direct manner in that most of the food we ate had a high carbohydrate content and , although I was unaware of it at the time , I put on a lot of weight .
3 ‘ After we 'd had a nice dinner together , we 'd go into Richard 's studio and we 'd put on music .
4 So anyway we 'd had a good look round and this ch church warden said hey you 'd better go and get some seats cos it 's going to get .
5 Erm , on appendix B , erm there is an item which erm members of the committee erm will know about very well it 's the laboratory services that we give and have a great relate to them , erm the item goes under seven I believe , the figures there have dropped , is that because we 'd had a successful income erm there , we 've got a hundred and ten thousand for both up ninety two and ninety three and ninety , sorry ninety two three and ninety three ninety four , is it that er , could we know or are we estimating that we 're going to get a nice income because we have been told in earlier reports that this is quite a good slice of income to us and those figures are amended accordingly is that right ?
6 Although we we 'd had a modest week in terms of routes , we 'd found enough delight and challenge in the sunlit silence of the valley and the peaks — and now we knew the full potential of the place .
7 We 'd had a little car before he got there .
8 We 'd had a huge rally of 10,000 people for Ronald Reagan at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and I was flying on to Los Angeles with one of the co-ordinators the next morning .
9 ‘ Last night we managed to have a reasonable conversation .
10 The dark uniform we wore had a military cap with polished brim , and in our fashioned tunics of soft serge and shiny boots we presented an avenging image , clothed in the symbolic colour of death and darkness .
11 Yet even so , the dispensary was busy every day , and we did have a great deal of work , dealing with the humdrum , everyday ailments — yaws , measles , ‘ flu and accidents — accepted by the Polynesians with a philosophical resignation , as though they were saying , ‘ This is the price we pay for living in paradise . ’
12 My brother tt he er had a bicycle and then he joined up , er we did have a hectic time , he could make anything go .
13 Cos we did have a young man I say young man , he was in his early twenties , he used to do all that , and he left and they never replaced him !
14 Very quick it was but we did have a nice bath did n't
15 Yeah we did have a good afternoon .
16 It is n't until ah th , the only time we did have a smashing journey , we went with erm oh what 's , what 's the name of a local firm from Plymouth ?
17 There 's many factors , many factors , and I 'd like to pay congratulations to Councillor I think it was , or the member certainly that came to the Economic er Sub-committee that discussed the European report back because there we did have a proper discussion about the value of those trips .
18 On the second part , well nobody feels more strongly that I do about the problems of noise pollution and I agree entirely there er with what councillor has to say but may I remind members that this council did have a full service for a six months period , you all seem to have forgotten that , we did have a full service , an experimental one which ran for six months , er we were advised by the officers at the end of that period it was not necessary to run the full seven day a week service , it was not necessary we are still being advised that that is not necessary , that is the advice we were given at the last committee meeting and er the majority of members supported that .
19 I grew up in an area that did n't have any live theatre to speak of , but we did have a local cinema house , and I was just in awe of this thing called the cinema .
20 We did have a short time to show off whatever skills we had managed to acquire .
21 Now we did have a little bit of that , I would say er leave it leave it till you 've got the other stuff pretty well sorted out .
22 Mind you , we did have a little exotica in our small North Harrow branch [ apart from Molly , Betty etc. at the Christmas party ] ; there was Swiss Knorr 's French Onion soup for the daring housewife , and if a customer really wanted to impress her dinner guests , then we had small tins of pâté de fois gras .
23 We did n't have an explosion but we did have a big fire .
24 We appeared to have a decent squad then .
25 We had had a good dinner , and we were all in the mood for fun and games — all , that is , except Jackson .
26 When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had .
27 We had had a superb day 's climbing , and to say his death was tragic is an understatement .
28 ‘ Well , I remember after we had had a big success at Covent Garden with Elektra he turned to me and said , ‘ You know , Birgit , for the first time in my career I get good notices here in London ! ’
29 I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour .
30 You think about it , it 's never , I mean we had to have a special fire door put on cos our we go through to our garage .
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