Example sentences of "we had [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We had four elderly people to look after at Low Birk Hatt , my father 's parents and two uncles . |
2 | Now when I tell you about lodging houses , we had four registered lodging houses in Ipswich that they had at that time . |
3 | Former British Lions captain John Dawes , brought in two years ago to halt the slide of the Richmond-based club , insists : ‘ We had four dreadful years but I honestly believe we can climb back up again . ’ |
4 | Since only one bit at a time can be sent , we could not send the 8-bit binary number : all at once until we had eight separate telephone lines and this would be obviously impractical . |
5 | Well we had eight different presentations , er i warmed , I suppose , to two of them erm was a small engineering company in the motor trade which , while it will never make a fortune will probably make a living and the people seem to need help . |
6 | Dave said : ‘ Before the field trip , we were basing our knowledge on a lot of speculation : we had little direct access to data and there was little consensus among academics and the oil industry as to what the source rocks are . ’ |
7 | And we had five good lads aboard , we never thought to run into any trouble we could n't handle . |
8 | We had five different shapes on the board by the end of the lesson . |
9 | Monday arrived , as we set out we had two major obstacles to overcome , firstly not getting lost in Budapest ( which we achieved for the very first time ) and secondly getting through the border between Hungary and Romania . |
10 | Now I , I know on periods of night duty we had two fixed points . |
11 | Leeds were better right from kickoff and we had two early chances , Deane hitting a post and someone else being saved on the goal-line . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Whereas really , then if you have bathroom , they might as well be working in that same bedroom at the same time , whereas we had two separate gangs . |
14 | We had two perfect days skiing , early morning climbs being rewarded by long sweeping runs back down to the valley bottom on sun-softened neve . |
15 | By lunchtime we had two complete runs of the play in the can . |
16 | ‘ In Germany , even with 10 men , we had two good chances against them , and that must give us hope . |
17 | In the worst case , if we had two adjacent maximum sets in the sequence then the parser would have to consider 223 * 223 = 49,729 possible word-pairs . |
18 | We had two other rooms on the ground floor , a sort of kitchen and what most people would have called a large cupboard , but which Grace liked to describe as the parlour . |
19 | I remember myself , one time we had we had two grand fields and it were They were almost ripe when it came an awful time of rain , and they were just a sort of flattened . |
20 | Well the summer sporting season is gradually getting underway and yesterday we had two top events in Central South ; sidecar racing and hill climbing . |
21 | We had two incendiary bombs , but they were in the canteen . |
22 | Now on our car , as in every soft class car , we had two little girls who vacuumed the corridors and who made you tea and took care of you . |
23 | We had two big smoke-houses in the garden . |
24 | Oh yes , yes , we , the we had an extremely large rooms , I do n't know went , what , what , what went wrong the architect but we had two enormous rooms which could of been quite easily divided into three , but we could of had two bedrooms instead of one and the conse |
25 | We had two qualifying rounds , four rounds of the actual Open , then 36 holes playoff . |
26 | ‘ We had two old Marshalls that sounded great sometimes , but by the end of the record the only way we could get them to sound good was by taking them out of their cases and placing them on their sides in a certain temperature and a certain humidity — then they were great . |
27 | We had two lovely years in Rangoon before the Japanese invasion . |
28 | They were no longer happy to accept worksheets at their face value and we had two whole lessons with them querying and rearranging . |
29 | When I was a child we had two bay-coloured horses , and I later got to know them very well . |
30 | In our lounge we had two large bean bags and an old sofa with a blanket on it . |