Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] have [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tell me , since we came here has Cowslip answered any question you 've asked him ? " |
| 2 | ‘ As it 's so late , we 'd better have supper instead of tea . |
| 3 | Our street was just a row of brick terrace house , and we did n't have gardens at the front . |
| 4 | ‘ We did n't have music lessons at my school . ’ |
| 5 | If we did n't have butchers to do the necessary , we 'd be vegetarians out of sheer ineptitude . |
| 6 | Oh oh yeah well there was no option , you 'd got to cos you dare n't speak you 'd oh er friendly in our lunch break you know er dinner break really we did n't have lunch time erm we were all friendly together and er as I say er we got on alright , but you 'd er you 'd got to stick at your job absolutely you dare n't move oh , they do n't know they are born today |
| 7 | It was only because we had the quality systems in place , okay we did n't have accreditation er at the time , but the quality systems were in place , that we were invited to tender for the Crossrail project for Rickmansworth station . |
| 8 | For instance , we did n't have yardage books when I started , and I learned how to use them . |
| 9 | I mean this is the the cause of inflation surely is to have more , too much money taken too few goods and if you produce more goods this helps to deflate , er we did n't have inflation thirty years ago . |
| 10 | ‘ We did n't have chance to talk the other day , as you were so busy , ’ he said , pushing the door to behind him . |
| 11 | At Low Birk Hatt we did n't have Christmases in the generally accepted sense . |
| 12 | That happened in the ring , we did n't have head-guards in those days . |
| 13 | ‘ At that time , the Japanese economy was very bad , we did n't have money and it was a kind of dream that we would be able to spend a couple of years outside Japan . ’ |
| 14 | We did n't have electricity only candles and paraffin . |
| 15 | In fact he had me arriving at the scene in a police car with two tones , at , at , at that time we did n't have police cars with two tones , just siren , so they obviously put some sound on it . |
| 16 | We did n't have snow at home . |
| 17 | We did n't have interviews , but a young person had to ‘ gain' a place none the less , as we had criteria for entry onto the course . |
| 18 | Well if you look backwards erm at nineteen eighty six which , although we did n't have war in nineteen eighty six we had a series of horrendous events . |
| 19 | We did n't have television , of course . |
| 20 | 'Course , we did n't have telly in those days , and could n't afford holidays or anything like that . |
| 21 | We did n't have time to play on the beach or in the streets with the other kids . |
| 22 | ‘ Most of the time we were so busy rushing the posters out that we did n't have time to read them or think about what they said , ’ said Mr Mark Roblett , 27 , the elder of the two brothers whose south London company came to the aid of both parties . |
| 23 | ‘ The band had only been together a couple of months before we started recording that album , so we did n't have time to think about it too much — we just went in and did it . |
| 24 | We did n't have time to get to know one another well . |
| 25 | We did n't have time off for lectures we had to fit them in with our wi with our off duty . |
| 26 | So , we did n't have time to study them to see exactly where they are , to see what relationship between congress , the C E C and the sections . |
| 27 | As I said I 'll be talking about this in the next couple of weeks in the lectures and I hope to cover various things we did n't have time to touch on . |
| 28 | It used to be dinner for us at night , you see , cos we did n't have time for stopping like at lunchtime . |
| 29 | last year we did n't have time to really |
| 30 | Of course we did n't have servants , but my first bedroom was a little L-shaped room that must have been a maid 's room . |