Example sentences of "we had [adv] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had just cleared a jungle overhang , and slipped beneath it like a snail under a mushroom , when we awakened an enormous colony of giant fruit bats — the " flying foxes " with a wingspan of over three feet . |
| 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 | I had tried to excuse our conduct by telling him we had just needed a wash . |
| 4 | Between us we had even hired a video so that we could record this minor miracle of medical history for posterity . |
| 5 | We had not seen a town to speak of for almost two weeks . |
| 6 | However , we had not caught a double , so unbeknown to Rick I wound in my right hand rod which had not done much on the meat and switched over to a boilie . |
| 7 | Till 1926 we had not invented a way of mortgaging property without creating equitable interests . |
| 8 | On average , we met for three hours every ten days , constantly revising , exchanging and criticising so that in the end we had both had a hand in everything . |
| 9 | ‘ When we split up I was really pissed off that we had n't achieved a lot of things we could have done , and that mood was coming through in the last records because it was depressing . |
| 10 | So far we had n't seen a bear at all . |
| 11 | We had n't seen a fish , let alone hooked one . |
| 12 | You 'd g had to parade on the Sunday erm for weapon training , and one Sunday we earlier on , we had n't fired a rifle , so it was arranged for us to fire a rifle at a rifle range . |
| 13 | We had n't issued a certificate because the school or college had n't told SCOTVEC of the outcome of the module by filling in a Form NC6 . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We had n't got a bite from any fish but then I felt a tug on the line , ’ said Robert . |
| 15 | No we had n't , we had n't got a photographer . |
| 16 | And we did n't We had n't got a wash-house of our own , we used to have to go to Miss 's , down the road , to do our washing . |
| 17 | You had n't got We had n't got a washing we had n't got a wash-house . |
| 18 | Oh they had I must tell you now that at the time that we had n't got a car at all , on the occasion of a royal visit , or some very important action being taken , my Chief Constable used to hire a chauffeur driven car from Mr of Lane in Ipswich . |
| 19 | We erm , we had n't got a lot of room for expansion down there , we were in , when I joined the department it was known as the Ipswich T Electric Supply and Transport Department and er we were in some buildings which were rented from the Electric Supply Department which housed the generators for the electricity , so we had n't got a lot of room for expansion there , I think we were all confined into about three offices . |
| 20 | We erm , we had n't got a lot of room for expansion down there , we were in , when I joined the department it was known as the Ipswich T Electric Supply and Transport Department and er we were in some buildings which were rented from the Electric Supply Department which housed the generators for the electricity , so we had n't got a lot of room for expansion there , I think we were all confined into about three offices . |
| 21 | You had n't got We had n't got a washing we had n't got a wash-house . |
| 22 | Erm , erm , apart from the meeting last week the last , last month , er one of our mem one of our members noticed that erm we had n't got a delegate to age concern and she volunteered , that 's a Mrs would you like to okay that cos the Chairman and I speaking to her thought well this was a good idea and I have forwarded her name to age concern who 've contact her . |
| 23 | Erm father was living there as well so I er did n't stay long er because we had n't got a job . |
| 24 | We switched off everything , I 'm sure , and we had n't had a fire in the grate for days . |
| 25 | We had scarcely survived a convoy of high articulated lorries to reach the safety of a country lane . |
| 26 | I remember not too long ago we had nt had a striker who scored 20+ goals since the Revie days . |
| 27 | And the following visit he made here he brought with him Miss Virginia she was one of the personnel at Stepney Causeway she was the Miss Virginia , the niece of the line and she came and she said that she would help in erm doing some organisation and and giving us some insight as to what we had to do , because we had never run a fete in all our lives ! |
| 28 | We had never seen a soffit ventilator before , and had only a vague idea about dry-verge ridging , but the excellent catalogues and leaflets provided most of the instructions we needed . |
| 29 | If we had really reached a state where a bloody and unprovoked attack on four unarmed members of our police provoked only glee and pleasure in the public then neither I , nor anyone else , would be living in a country we recognised . |
| 30 | If the old witch was a prophet , then so was I , for we had hardly ridden a bow 's length into the trees when Benjamin declared himself lost . |