Example sentences of "we [vb past] to have the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We asked to have the radio back in case there was any news from his family . |
| 2 | Two tenascin cDNA clones that we identified to have the AD1 sequence indicate the presence of two possible splice forms ie. , a full length transcript ( clone TN3.1 ) , and one in which repeat 11 and 12 are spliced ( clone H1 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ We appealed to have the contribution lowered and that has just been rejected so I 'm going to have to meet with my solicitor about that . |
| 4 | ‘ In most cases that we heard there was no real problem , but in some cases there was fire so we decided to have the recall as a purely precautionary move . ’ |
| 5 | The boys were big time , but we had to have the sound system , the lighting , the stage — everything had to move at the pace of David 's imagination . |
| 6 | ‘ When our two wee ones came along , we had to have the ixtra room , but I prefer the old part of the house . |
| 7 | We had to have the bridge by nightfall . |
| 8 | And er it took us a long time to get the special material because as you will gather , we tend to do everything properly , so we had to have the a cloth specially woven er handwoven of course and especially dyed and for once we had it especially fooled in other words the nap was raised . |
| 9 | well we had in the bank , we had calor gas lamps and when the power cut came we had to have the calor gas lamps on , and er , at night you 'd get home and you knew what area was going off at what time and you used to have to rush round , I remember once , it was going off about six and it went off early , it went off about five instead , and I 'd started cooking the tea , luckily got a gas cooker and this was at Abbott Road , it started |
| 10 | I 'm sure it was you who brought it , and we did n't open it because we were eating , we wanted to have the opposite colour to what you brought , that what you |
| 11 | We tended to have the same meal on the same day of the week : roast on Sunday , cold meat on Monday , a steak-and-kidney pie or pudding on Tuesday , stew on Wednesday , salt beef on Thursday , fish on Friday and toad-in-the-hole on Saturday . |
| 12 | We attempted to have the case tried in a Crown Court with a judge and jury but it seemed apparent to us , at our first appearance at the Magistrates Court , that every attempt was made , including the dropping of a crucial charge , to keep the case at that level . |