Example sentences of "[conj] we had [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't you know that Freddie Nash is now sharing Major Hallett 's cottage , where we had that party before Christmas ? |
| 2 | What , after all , could be more suitable for the Lionisers than the hotel within whose walls Dickens spent so much time , and where he had completed Nicholas Nickleby , the Albion ‘ where we had that merry night two years ago ’ , he wrote to his friend Forster , an occasion made the merrier by indulgence in the landlord 's ‘ excellent hollands ’ . |
| 3 | Although we had little notice of the tour , branches were keen to help and the Association will receive £6,628 representing 50% of the total profits . |
| 4 | Although we had little to eat , the water held out , and we bathed Father 's wounds , which were beginning to look nasty . |
| 5 | The fans are more fanatical and although we had some great times at Goodison , this could be something else . |
| 6 | Indeed , we were so anxious to get the figures right that we had little time to spend explaining why what we proposed was morally necessary . |
| 7 | It meant however that we had little time to relate our studies at any deep level to Buddhism , but it seemed unanswerable that people must have a deep understanding of their own faith before they can go on to study that of other people . |
| 8 | Not that we had much time for feeling anything , we were so busy in the Met Office just then . |
| 9 | I was one of her daisies and it meant that we had all these hats on , which were very unattractive — a rubber hat and on top was the daisy , so when you swam around and the people looked down at you , they just saw these daisies . |
| 10 | What was the one that we had that the dog would have ? |
| 11 | round the fact that I hope that the auditor is n't gon na try and isn pretend that we had that for all last year . |
| 12 | that we had that like a little sitting room , I just had a settee in there and a couple of chairs , it was lovely and cosy in there |
| 13 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
| 14 | We had a coffee , bought some reinforcements , deciding to leave the skyr that we had both become addicted to until later , turned south and headed for the sea . |
| 15 | It took an enormous amount of discussion to persuade me that we had enough intrinsic skills to mount a successful oil operation , but those closer to the competition and the marketplace knew better than I their own relative abilities . |
| 16 | Yeah , at the beginning was when sort of got twenty minutes left to do it erm we were fine there and I think it was the beginning part was and then we started panicking then like sort of after that you said oh do you want five minutes or more and we all sort of looked at each other you know and we did n't feel that we had enough time erm so we just sort of really |
| 17 | The stringent criteria for selecting our patients meant that we had few patients and it is possible that a difference in acid secretion between the patients with idiopathic DU and H pylori positive patients with DU could become apparent with greater numbers . |
| 18 | Of the RECORDS Laurie Bruce says that we had more than ever before , with some real treasures among the ‘ 78's , and more long-playing records in really mint condition . |
| 19 | Not that we had any fundamental objection to the children . |
| 20 | Thus it was that we had some very palpable hits , but no real engagements . |
| 21 | This motif was used on the air every day and we rang all possible changes on the ‘ we 're being done in by the big bogey-man ’ theme , so much so that we had some of our faithful old lady listeners actually in tears . |
| 22 | Erm , one of the things we had on the stall is erm this erm application form for N H S charges , now many people including probably people here do n't know that erm , you do n't have to be on supplementary to get help and Ann knows actually , er if your getting any rent or rate rebate and you fill this in , you 'll get some help , in some cases quite considerable help , and I suggested that we had some of these on our store room , got some from Welfare Rights , and they went like hot cakes , because most people did n't know about this , so following that we shall have , we shall keep these on our stall and I 've more or less suggested that Lisa on Age Concern in the Leah Manning should have them there because she 's constantly getting enquiries on that , so she is going to do that . |
| 23 | I had had nothing to read for three months , and now that we had some time to ourselves reading was a good way of distracting myself from the immediacies of life around me . |
| 24 | The conclusion we are entitled to draw from these findings is that , in general , female usage tends towards the more ‘ careful ’ end of the stylistic continuum and male usage towards the more ‘ casual ’ , and it seemed at this stage of our research that we had some justification for the claim that in linguistic variation , sex-differentiation is prior to class differentiation and need not be interpreted as subsidiary to class ( as it normally has been ) . |
| 25 | ‘ We came somewhat late to Aberdeen , ’ wrote Johnson , ‘ and found the inn so full , that we had some difficulty in obtaining admission , till Mr Boswell made himself known . |
| 26 | From the basic idea that we had some very surprising product benefits grew the comic device used in the commercials of people being so surprised they fall of their seats . |
| 27 | Is not it about time that we had some more positive policies ? |
| 28 | It was only earlier this year when the announcement was made about the extension of the east-west route that we had some of the information we 'd been seeking . |
| 29 | well we can do that we had some lovely spring , that day we went up to the park it was what spring like were n't it ? |
| 30 | We acted as if we owned RCA , that we were RCA , that we had this corporation . |