Example sentences of "[coord] we had [verb] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | No Met nor Notam information was displayed , and we had to ask for the Met before filing our flight-plan to Santiago . |
| 2 | In the second half we saw little ball and we had to defend for our lives . |
| 3 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 4 | But all the local ambulances were busy and we had to wait for one to come from Richmond , which is many miles away . |
| 5 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 6 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 7 | He pays tribute to his treatment at Gartree prison , he apologises to the bomb victims ' families that they have had to keep reminding them of their loss : ‘ But we had to fight for our freedom . ’ |