Example sentences of "we had [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had no new monies during last year and consequently we have no growth . |
| 2 | At the end of April I had almost forgotten my prediction for a release when Bilal and his partner , for whom we had no other name than Frank 's ‘ Jerk ’ , excitedly started spring-cleaning both the apartment and us . |
| 3 | But finally the Social moved us out of there because we had no hot water . |
| 4 | ‘ We had no substantive conversations . |
| 5 | Even if we had no standard semantics to characterise , it would still be necessary to investigate the structure of the classes of inter-transformable programs , because it is only this that reveals the true power of a set of laws . |
| 6 | For our part , we appeared to take for granted the Germans ' total ignorance of our presence , for we had no air-raid drill , nor did we have a single air-raid shelter , slit-trench , sandbag blast-wall , nor even so much as a steel helmet — only a large poster which read : |
| 7 | By this stage , then , the Diceyan argument that in Britain we had no administrative law had clearly been rejected . |
| 8 | Unlike the kids in Lord of the Flies we had no real problems , but the remoteness does make me anti-social . |
| 9 | We feel this will be significant for us as we have not as yet really ‘ advertised ’ the Centre because we felt we had no real permanence of venue . |
| 10 | I guess we were quite alienated : in a way we had no real identity of our own . ’ |
| 11 | We had realism in EastEnders and comedy in Coronation Street — but we had no soapy saga for kids , about kids and their problems . |
| 12 | ‘ We still believe that , in the circumstances , we had no sustainable reason for refusing membership to two companies . |
| 13 | We could n't bring her into the house because we had an old cat and we had no spare kennels , so that just left the caravan . |
| 14 | Sunnyside Road , and erm , it were it was good accommodation we had our own bathroom and toilet er but again accommodation was cramped , we had no spare room |
| 15 | We had no official contacts with any of the new Cuban leaders and therefore nothing to go on but rumours . |
| 16 | This immediately caught my imagination , for in the indigenous churches in Burma we had no musical instruments and no choirs . |
| 17 | We had no running water , no electricity , no gas . |
| 18 | ‘ In the middle of the refurbishment we had no public areas , but we were still able to sell rooms and guests were returning . |
| 19 | But if we had no independent reason for accepting this conclusion , such as the argument from error provides , we would take it as a point against his theory that it shows we do n't know the most central and obvious things such as that we are not brains in vats , that there is a material world or that the world began more than five minutes ago . |
| 20 | We had no positive indication that he was aware of our interest until yesterday morning . ’ |
| 21 | We thought they must be making sure we had no hidden messages and Brian used to mock them , saying , ‘ The Kalashnikov is hidden in the bathroom . ’ |
| 22 | At the most profound , over which we had no conscious control , we were ideally suited and at peace . |
| 23 | Because we had no direct measures of volatility in output or demand , we were not able to explore whether establishments experiencing important fluctuations in output or demand were also more important users of temporary labour . |
| 24 | I would n't insult their intelligence by lying and we had a healthy respect for each other . |
| 25 | Reced er the precedent for the situation that we are in now , yes indeed there is one and it was when er the Labour government was last in power in nineteen seventy eight , when we had er er er to er set up the European constituencies we had a limited time to do it in and all the countries in Europe had to agree to bring forward the same kind of agreement and put it into effect at the same time . |
| 26 | From the top we had a wide view of the valley with its bands of colour : the blue of the river dotted with white sails , the green fields on either side , and the enclosing tan-coloured deserts . |
| 27 | We had a tremendous response to our offer to exhibit free in Belgium . ’ |
| 28 | We asked around , and eventually we had a tremendous stroke of luck . |
| 29 | Says Payne : ‘ We found we had a tremendous amount in common , a real northern European outlook with people from the Pacific rim , Siberia or the Russian heartlands . |
| 30 | We had a stable rate base for a long time and we saw no reason to doubt that there was anything untoward in the ratings that had been made within our borough . |