Example sentences of "we had a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Because at the end of the day we had a hundred percent women in the union in that bakery . |
| 5 | We were told that there would be substantial benefits to our balance of trade , but , in fact , we had a multi-billion pound deficit inflicted on us . |
| 6 | Erm right the Yorkshire Aquarist Festival we had a coach two ninety three pound on the coach and a raffle a hundred and six pound erm on the inter-club we had a fourteen pound twenty five entry and we had a raffle , twenty nine twenty five , making forty three pound fifty . |
| 7 | There was no coke , so we got these old two-piece army stones , army stoves and by putting a brick or two inside it , we had a five gallon bucketful of mixture of engine oil and hundred octane . |
| 8 | Well as you can see from what Frank said , the six main sectors overall did n't fare too badly , sixteen percent drop in aggregate at the trading level and in fact er , our other interest less expenses were actually ended on eleven percent because we had a million pounds more profit from Lakeside when we sold the Tesco 's site . |
| 9 | Certainly it was the view adopted , for example , when we had a 6 month interregnum in Dublin , and it was assumed it was my responsibility to hold the fort . |
| 10 | We had a 3.15 PM start , and we 'd only played one hole when the end of the world looked as though it had come and we had to shelter in the R&A tent . |
| 11 | Yeah we had a twenty pound discount so we 've got a hundred |