Example sentences of "we [vb past] have a [adj] [noun] " 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 | Our own particular case is our case went to the High Court some three hundred thousand pounds , when perhaps if we 'd had a dedicated pensions act setting out what could and could not be done , that would never have happened . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We 'd had a little car before he got there . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Last night we managed to have a reasonable conversation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Yes , we did have a strong profits recovery in the second half , greatly helped by oil services and U S educational publishing . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | Very quick it was but we did have a nice bath did n't |
| 17 | Yeah we did have a good afternoon . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We did have a short time to show off whatever skills we had managed to acquire . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We did n't have an explosion but we did have a big fire . |
| 26 | We appeared to have a decent squad then . |
| 27 | We had had a good dinner , and we were all in the mood for fun and games — all , that is , except Jackson . |
| 28 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 29 | We had had a superb day 's climbing , and to say his death was tragic is an understatement . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |