Example sentences of "we [vb past] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We agreed to have a summit meeting in Bromley High Street after school , where we 'd make a decision on what to do . |
| 2 | Then we stopped to have a cigarette . |
| 3 | Yeah I realize that but the thing is if we 'd had a phone call to say look , we 're going to be this late , |
| 4 | We 'd had a couple just stay on the lip and we were getting desperate . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'd had a couple of years to put the break-up into perspective and I know , personally , I was missing the lads and the buzz I used to get from songs like ‘ Suspect Devices ’ and ‘ Straw Dogs ’ . |
| 6 | took me a lot of years before I could and I was so pleased when once I was able to say to you I 've Ben had been in the shop and we 'd had a chat had n't we ? |
| 7 | one and we 'd had a chat for a long , long time and I said to him afterwards , I was able to understand everything he said ! |
| 8 | If we 'd had a row . |
| 9 | We 'd had a drink … . ’ |
| 10 | That kind of hurt because we 'd had a relationship for nine years . |
| 11 | They 'd think we 'd had a quarrel . ’ |
| 12 | If we 'd had a child there would have been movement ; we 'd have watched him growing up , seen him change , worried about his schooling , and so on . |
| 13 | Well I suppose at the , one of the best things , best examples of the difference was that my wife when she saw this house , knew that it was a house in which she could be happy , in which her tastes and , could spread themselves , erm rather than her tastes having to be curtailed by lack of space and lack of accommodation , erm , the fact that I had a garage which was essential er next to my house instead of some er quarter or twenty minutes ' walk away from where I lived as happened in London also made a terrific difference to comfort , erm the fact that there was a garden instead of a few windowboxes and a couple of tubs , all these things I think made one appreciate the fact that you 'd come , not only into a new town , but into a new way of life probably the fact that we had a staircase inside the house , which was the first time that we 'd had a staircase between our bedrooms and our living rooms |
| 14 | If we 'd had a church wedding , she 'd have done the white-lace-and-trimmings bit , the full veil-and-trail number . |
| 15 | ‘ I told her we 'd had a tip-off . |
| 16 | So serene , in fact , that after we 'd had a meal at the bungalow and a few drinks my mother did something she 'd never done before . |
| 17 | H. P. Some people would get a bottle of beer — we 'd had a lot of fellows come out of the army and they were fond of their drink and there 's no doubt that they could get it . |
| 18 | Erm , we 'd had a meeting prior to going so we had a fair idea of you know , we kind of got together and shared some thoughts before we , before we went . |
| 19 | And it 's quite true , I was there about four years and they always took stock before January the first , so that after Christmas came an anomaly , we 'd had a Christmas holiday and gone back to work . |
| 20 | That afternoon a friend came round , Ruth and Jim , and they come round with a bottle of champagne , the best you could buy , and it was just like we 'd had a baby … |
| 21 | Cos we 'd had a recce by then and had a look round and you see . |
| 22 | If we 'd had a boom economy over the last five years , the Stock Exchange would never have thought of phasing out the USM . ’ |
| 23 | They are reputed to have said , ‘ If we 'd had a telegram like that , we 'd have gone to the moon . ’ |
| 24 | Er if it was something serious , like say we 'd had a murder or something in the village |
| 25 | The three sample causal beliefs with which we began have a number of features . |
| 26 | Similarly , it seemed a natural thing when we began to have a coffee break in the middle of the service . |
| 27 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 28 | ‘ We started having a row . |
| 29 | ‘ We decided to have a go and were a little surprised when Leeds agreed to the deal . ’ |
| 30 | Not too bad we we got well we had been together near enough since we left school but you know we decided to have a go at it seriously in in seventy five and then we recorded an album and a single in say seventy seven , seventy eight . |