Example sentences of "we had a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reced er the precedent for the situation that we are in now , yes indeed there is one and it was when er the Labour government was last in power in nineteen seventy eight , when we had er er er to er set up the European constituencies we had a limited time to do it in and all the countries in Europe had to agree to bring forward the same kind of agreement and put it into effect at the same time . |
| 2 | ‘ Having done the Tunstall settlement — which was really driven by concern over the costs , it seemed to us that we had a moral obligation to extend that deal to other shareholders , ’ Ernst & Young 's national marketing partner David Wilson told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 3 | We had a terrific secret to guard ; we could not speak — and that , at the beginning , was the hardest part . |
| 4 | Is not it really the case that the Government do not care about training , that we have a disastrous training record and that it is high time that we had a Labour Government to tackle the problems ? |
| 5 | We had a long way to go and to start by knocking the monarchy would n't go down too well at home . |
| 6 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
| 7 | During our journey we had been taken to Sherwood Forest , where we had a short while to look around and similarly at Chatsworth house . |
| 8 | We knew we had a tough target to go for . |