Example sentences of "we had a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would n't insult their intelligence by lying and we had a healthy respect for each other . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We had a tremendous response to our offer to exhibit free in Belgium . ’ |
| 5 | We asked around , and eventually we had a tremendous stroke of luck . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | After touring the Cote Sauvage we had a perfect lunch in a crep erie : galettes — whole-wheat crepes made from sarazin ( black wheat ) — filled with ham or melted cheese and accompanied by foaming mugs of Breton cider ; then crisp lacy brown crepes with sugar and jam or chocolate sauce , which bore no resemblance to the limp pancakes served under that name in America . |
| 9 | About an hour before reaching Jura dark clouds began to roll over on us from its lofty peaks , and soon we had a perfect torrent of rain . |
| 10 | If we had a perfect world we 'd be all alright . |
| 11 | today , in school we had a two members of a family planning association and er , we were in group and we actually had the guys in our class , they 're seventeen , maybe eighteen sitting laughing and sniggering between themselves ! |
| 12 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 13 | " We had a nasty experience last night , Edith . |
| 14 | On Tuesday we had a first-class Budget , a Budget for recovery . |
| 15 | ‘ Ah , but I knew we had a first-class lifeguard on board . ’ |
| 16 | Well it was really good in our old house cos we had , we had a front room and a back room and a kitchen all downstairs . |
| 17 | Not only did he make sure that we had a thorough grounding in the 3 Rs , Reading — Writing — Rithmatic , but just as important — he taught us C. P. and K. — Courtesy , Politeness and Kindness : |
| 18 | We had three sessions on this in the Northern Ireland Committee in June last year , when we had a thorough debate . |
| 19 | We had over , over a hundred women in fact , we had a fifty percent success rate , thirty nine , well almost thirty nine of these women stopped smoking and most of them , almost all , showed a tremendous improvement in fitness , in well being , and quite a few , I wo n't say everyone , felt that i , they were much more relaxed |
| 20 | Well the point was you see , we had a dumb hopper , the dumb hopper was towed by an old tug , they had to tow that dumb hopper to sea , what was called dumb cos they ai n't got no engines and so that was towed to sea and then course the er the dumb hopper ha had four winches , hand winches and then they , cos they had the chains on the but the steam hopper |
| 21 | That weekend , we had a glorious ride and walk in Derbyshire , and our family joined us for a meal . |
| 22 | We had a Scots fencer . |
| 23 | ‘ We had a young lad ringing us from Manchester . |
| 24 | We had a closed discussion and decided to humour you for a bit … |
| 25 | Having come this far , we had a vested interest in Ashmunein , and we resolutely climbed the largest of its mounds . |
| 26 | We then re-examined our whole hand , studied in more detail than before the costs and revenues from individual products and found , hey presto ! that we had a mixed bag between the good profit earners and a few large loss leaders and so on and so on . |
| 27 | We had a mixed bag on the night , Professionals , Semi-Professionals , Amateurs and members out simply for a good nights fun . |
| 28 | we had a fabulous time , did n't we ? |
| 29 | And we now have got the first step er sorry not , not strictly speaking , the first steps of course were economic th that we had a strategic embargo and an economic embargo er on er on the Serbs and er on , on the er the , the different regions er th the first military step however is air strikes and we 'll know er within a week I think whether in fact this step will be actually taken or whether the threat is sufficient to induce er the belligerents to come to a negotiated settlement . |
| 30 | Their perception was that we , we had a desperate shortage of staff |