Example sentences of "[coord] we had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And we had sixty pullets at the point of lay in this house to be moved out from the house to a field . |
2 | In 1985 only 15 species of bird nested on the farm ; in 1992 our breeding list had reached 45 species and we had 156 pairs of birds nesting here . |
3 | And we had terrible job getting a contract off him . |
4 | Following a very rough crossing from Portsmouth during which I slept very little it dawned on me that we were on our own in a Renault van which was half a ton overweight , had a top speed of 60 mph , an up-hill speed of 40 mph provided you had a run at it , jumped out of fourth gear unless you held it in position and we had 1850 miles to go ! |
5 | And we had marvellous Christmas parties too . |
6 | They helped specify the system and we had regular meetings so nothing got out of hand . |
7 | In spite of being a reservoir , Carsfad provided excellent sport and we had great fun ; as long as I steered well clear of the dam . |
8 | And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know . |
9 | We had the Bradford Football disaster and we had other disasters in nightclubs , the Fairfield Night Nursing Home in in Nottingham |
10 | Your mother divorced him and we had many interests in common . ’ |
11 | We had good education and we had good teachers , |
12 | But the company was always wanting new plays , and we had two theatres now . |
13 | ten ninety five and , and we had two bottles last night so it costs us sixty pounds . |
14 | And we had two shields , we had two separate teams to go immediately to the two bedrooms which , in our er esti est estimations , that will be where any adults were more likely to be in the flat . |
15 | Well that was , that was the crew 's job you see cos you used to have , they used to be erm , they used to be the master of the ship , my father , and they would still have a mate , he 's dead and gone and there was myself one side on the starboard side on a winch and we had two men right aft on the after winch and they used to have to look after three chains . |
16 | And we had two years with no pay rise . |
17 | ‘ We went to Druid 's Bottom and we saw Mister Johnny , gobble-gobble-gobble , and we went milking the scholly-ka , and we had roast pork for dinner … |
18 | And we had political commissars , oh yes , yes . |
19 | I want well out of it , so course she come in got changed , so he said to me I would like you tomorrow to have a word with Robin about stopping her coming down to us he said because erm it makes me feel very uncomfortable he said and we had that hassle he said it 's a load of nonsense he said I 've forgotten |
20 | I 've spoken to every one of the men and we had that constable from Burford here asking a lot of questions . |
21 | One was the philosophic opposition of the Right-to-Life groups in this country ; and they said that this was a foot in the door , the first step down the road towards active and involuntary euthanasia , and we had that argument to counter and that group to deal with , and even after countering the argument , we still had the group to deal with . |
22 | And we had one day off a month . |
23 | And we had one rugby pitch . |
24 | You know I went and showed my dogs over there and afterwards we all went to the pub and we had one hell of a time and then I had to sing would you believe it ? |
25 | And where ag erm either erm a young mother or even older women who did n't have a husband to support them , then we would try and we had one woman coming in and saying , she had six children and er her husband had gone off , and her giro had n't been sorted out . |
26 | And then a big house where the children were so many and we had one mother for all of us . |
27 | And we had our hiccups and we had all sorts of you know difficult moments for all of us where we all had to face ourselves and You know I remember my little boy said , Oh Mum y what about my Christmas you know I was putting a lot of time into the the striker 's Christmas and he said how do you become a striker 's child ? |
28 | Last week a husband took his wife out for a drive and we had 45 minutes to get the place ready , wine chilled , chandeliers , and have a lobster dinner ready on the table by the time they got back . |
29 | Rochers town , we were only a short way and we went to this house , we were only young coppers , and we had this friend call on us and we looked out , he was going back into the car and he looked down the street and he said , my God there 's an awful lot of children around here , they must do nothing but screw all the time |
30 | Anyway , they all came in and we had this instant party which was very pleasant . |