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

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1 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 .
2 But oh we we 'd we 'd a lot of good fiddlers in those days and a girl at the piano .
3 Then she noticed we had a child with us in a pushchair .
4 We used to go on a tram-car and have a smoke , and a councillor was on there once , and noticed us having a smoke .
5 But then they came in , rolled up the carpet , cleaned the floor , put plastic mats down , told us to have a shower and gave us clean clothes and clean sheets .
6 D ye know I forgot we had a telephone !
7 We 'd just moved in when we discovered we had a mouse in the kitchen .
8 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 .
9 I said to Chris I felt we had a bit more money and could do better than that .
10 Despite the result on Saturday you still felt we had a lot to do .
11 I suddenly felt we had a lot in common and maybe I 'd misjudged him .
12 We , we felt we had a lot of talking to do .
13 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 .
14 ‘ Once we knew we had a daughter someplace out there , what could we do but try to find her ? ’ they said .
15 ‘ I was n't worried as soon as I knew we had a home draw .
16 Should have been a goal , but everyone knew we had a game .
17 " I thought we had a stalemate . "
18 ( We thought we had a budgie in the office one day — whistles constantly ! ) .
19 No I think we still thought we had a chance .
20 We always thought we had a chance if we played well . ’
21 We always thought we had a chance if we played well . ’
22 He thought we had a lot to learn from that and it would encourage them …
23 I thought we had a deal . ’
24 I thought we had a deal .
25 In the past , this did not mean that we would not move from company to company , it most certainly did not mean that we ha that we thought we had a job for life , but it did mean that we expected a degree of permanence and improvement as part of the reward for our endeavours and labour .
26 Your arrangements enabled us to have a holiday in a hitherto quite unknown area and one of great charm , and we look forward to travelling with you again .
27 Oh did we have a look at that ?
28 Did we have a West End show or not ?
29 Why , in 1989 , did we have a £3 billion trade deficit in building products against the background of building firms , building material producers and brickmakers all going to the wall ?
30 Or did we have a reader ?
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