Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says , ‘ Last time we met you had a key . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Smith Kline Beecham spokesman Alan Chandler said : ‘ Once we found we had a slightly higher incidence of mumps-meningitis we notified the authorities . |
| 4 | ‘ Allowing for the generation gap , we found we had a surprising amount in common . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We found he had a whole store of out of door knowledge which he was quite ready to impart . |
| 7 | ‘ But when we came we had the fireplace taken out . |
| 8 | But oh we we 'd we 'd a lot of good fiddlers in those days and a girl at the piano . |
| 9 | We booked a table in a restaurant for our office Christmas party but when we arrived they had no record of the booking we made . |
| 10 | ‘ After the disappointment of losing to Germany , we showed we had the guts to come back . |
| 11 | ‘ The four children were not showing any signs of infection but during routine screening , which we carry out every week , we discovered they had the bacteria , ’ said a hospital spokeswoman . |
| 12 | We 'd just moved in when we discovered we had a mouse in the kitchen . |
| 13 | Er we thought we could work to it and we thought we had a different rule for timekeeping er and we did n't check the calculations . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( We thought we had a budgie in the office one day — whistles constantly ! ) . |
| 16 | At first we thought we had no neighbours down by the river : nearly all the picture windows were blank . |
| 17 | It was a sad and disillusioning blow for 261 Squadron , as John Pain relates : ‘ This was the one day when we thought we had the edge . |
| 18 | We thought we had an enormous pile but unfortunately our fire was not very long lasting and by 6 o'clock we were wandering about looking at the other , more professionally built conflagrations . |
| 19 | We thought he had a weakness for us and our Empire . |
| 20 | We brought him to Lingfield last week and he went so well on the sand , we thought he had a chance today , ’ said the trainer . |
| 21 | ‘ We felt we had a good chance and thought we presented our case well . ’ |
| 22 | We , we felt we had a lot of talking to do . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Once we knew we had a daughter someplace out there , what could we do but try to find her ? ’ they said . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We knew we had a tough target to go for . |
| 27 | ‘ A lot of crews can try and win outright , but we knew we had the boat speed to move it through , ’ she said . |
| 28 | We said we had no idea . |
| 29 | In the face of fierce Labour criticism , he acknowledged : ‘ Before the election we said we had no plans to raise VAT . |
| 30 | Well we had we had a lot of snow in those days , far more than than there 's been since then . |