Example sentences of "[adv] we had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly we had four rooms , a plumbed in bath and no poor Irish downstairs . |
| 2 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 3 | Could n't you have somehow fixed it so we had separate rooms ? ’ |
| 4 | In Scotland , Members of Parliament from both sides of the House and local government employees and councillors stupidly said that they would continue with the revaluation , and so we had five-year revaluations until 1985 . |
| 5 | So we had eight people huddled over the desk arguing about the sound . |
| 6 | Mums and toddlers thought it was wonderful , we only had half a dozen you see in there cos it was low numbers all round so we had low numbers in the |
| 7 | So we had this idea of getting other people to buy it with us . ’ |
| 8 | So we had this agreement I would al arrive in a removal van just as assembly finished to start the lessons in the morning and then my removal man would come back and pick me up again at twelve o'clock so that I could then do the two-man jobs . |
| 9 | So we had another mystery . |
| 10 | ‘ We all gave up our jobs , so right away we had six wages to pay . |
| 11 | Quite soon we had enough songs for a set . |
| 12 | Still we had two ladies does n't come . |
| 13 | For once we had definite news that things were looking up , and it was the perfect antidote to the gruelling journey . |
| 14 | have you told them big insurance company come and unstuck a little and what he had like Gail done , was like we had last year |
| 15 | Then a few days later we had opening night , and I was in my first tuxedo . |
| 16 | Well we had two copies sent to us because Amanda sent away for some |
| 17 | The flight crews eagerly accepted the King 's hospitality ; our Tri-Pacer had been running so well we had little maintenance to do . |
| 18 | Well we had massive Yings yesterday ! |
| 19 | ‘ Ten years ago we had four refineries . |
| 20 | ‘ Ten years ago we had some curiosity value , ’ says Edward Foy , from Minnesota , one of the few foreigners with tenure at a Japanese university . |
| 21 | Well I do n't know , we had , not so long ago we had National Dormouse Week did n't we further in the autumn |
| 22 | Would that today we had outspoken men of the calibre of Wordsworth and Green to save the landscape from rape and pillage . |
| 23 | Well they had one man in the hold and they used to have a fork lift in the hold , in Holland , with one man and he could do that job and they sent one man ashore , well over here we had four men in the hold and two men ashore . |
| 24 | From here we had immense views , northwards across Ras Kassa 's province of Salale towards the Blue Nile gorge , or southwards to the distant Arussi mountains . |
| 25 | Fortunately we had other things to occupy us as we reached the spot in the harbour where the boat was normally moored . |
| 26 | Maybe we had some lights like it once . |
| 27 | First we had Rocks , then we had new Rocks and now we have Super Rocks . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And then we had that introduction of DOPACS , and all that changed . |
| 30 | Luckily by then we had enough material — together with a few more worry lines . |