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

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1 Says Payne : ‘ We found we had a tremendous amount in common , a real northern European outlook with people from the Pacific rim , Siberia or the Russian heartlands .
2 Smith Kline Beecham spokesman Alan Chandler said : ‘ Once we found we had a slightly higher incidence of mumps-meningitis we notified the authorities .
3 ‘ Allowing for the generation gap , we found we had a surprising amount in common .
4 It all started sixteen years ago when our children went to school for the first time and we found we had a gap in our lives to fill .
5 But oh we we 'd we 'd a lot of good fiddlers in those days and a girl at the piano .
6 Then she noticed we had a child with us in a pushchair .
7 D ye know I forgot we had a telephone !
8 ‘ We collected 30 bags of rubbish in one day , and realised we had a serious problem , ’ he says ‘ From then on I decided to blitz the village a couple of days every week .
9 We 'd just moved in when we discovered we had a mouse in the kitchen .
10 and it meant we had a regular rehearsal space — which we used nearly every day .
11 Although we did not appear to have a direct hit in any vital part ( and the engines were spared ) as soon as we dropped our bombs , and the photo-flash meant we had a picture of where we had left our load , we turned for home .
12 Despite the result on Saturday you still felt we had a lot to do .
13 I said to Chris I felt we had a bit more money and could do better than that .
14 I suddenly felt we had a lot in common and maybe I 'd misjudged him .
15 ‘ We felt we had a good chance and thought we presented our case well . ’
16 We , we felt we had a lot of talking to do .
17 ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added .
18 ‘ Once we knew we had a daughter someplace out there , what could we do but try to find her ? ’ they said .
19 We called ourselves proudly the extremists , the vanguard , but it was n't until we read the American CLIT papers in 1973 that we knew we had a name other than men-haters .
20 ‘ I was n't worried as soon as I knew we had a home draw .
21 We knew we had a tough target to go for .
22 ‘ Ah , but I knew we had a first-class lifeguard on board . ’
23 Should have been a goal , but everyone knew we had a game .
24 ‘ It was a competition I thought we had a realistic chance of winning .
25 He thought we had a lot to learn from that and it would encourage them …
26 ‘ I thought we had a good chance of tracing the Spidex people through London .
27 I thought we had a
28 Er we thought we could work to it and we thought we had a different rule for timekeeping er and we did n't check the calculations .
29 " I thought we had a stalemate . "
30 I thought we had a deal . ’
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