Example sentences of "we [adv] had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We rarely had more than a couple of deliveries a day — we did n't have the space . |
| 2 | When a chance came up to do them early we took it , although it meant we only had nine working days to fit in with Magnox Shutdown . |
| 3 | We only had six here this morning , and I was n't expecting so many as thirteen . |
| 4 | We only had two days on Fregate and I could easily have spent at least a week . |
| 5 | erm I was reading about carrots , so I did n't get to finish it cos we only had two weeks . |
| 6 | We only had such wood as we could scrounge , and to light a fire with the bare minimum of paper and wood , plus uncooperative coke is difficult to say the least . |
| 7 | The schoolchildren were split into seven standards or classes but we only had one room and one blackboard . |
| 8 | That 's right , yes I mean , the goalkeeper was fantastic first half , and really we only had one chance second half , and he made a great save from Fossey. erm First half , it was a case of just throwing himself into the right area and the ball was hitting his body and you know , he was just a good example of how to be a good goalkeeper . |
| 9 | After my father left we only had each other and — and we moved a lot . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Actually , I 'm just happy to be where I am because after that early problem we only had 14 minutes of running , so it was a short session . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ On the sleeve of the first record it was meant to say just Therapy , but I started the logo too far over to the left — and we only had enough money for one sheet of Letraset — I could n't start again , so I just added a question mark to make it fit . |
| 12 | We only had this at the end of the |
| 13 | They say it was only a part of it , you know , because we only had half an hour , did n't we , there and then |
| 14 | Mums and toddlers thought it was wonderful , we only had half a dozen you see in there cos it was low numbers all round so we had low numbers in the |
| 15 | We only had half a team there . |
| 16 | We only had three Sisters , about eight staff nurses , a few ward orderlies and fortunately eight doctors were within call . |
| 17 | When we suddenly had thousands of troops come on board , we made damm sure everything was under cover . |
| 18 | Anyhow we was supposed to , they set a field kitchen up in the farmyard to , as part of the exercise , to feed us er and er they handed out some meat pies , you know , we just had one ta oh taste and well |
| 19 | But I mean , when I was living with her we just had all these arguments cos , you know , I just never got any peace ! |
| 20 | I think what we would do supposing we did n't , supposing we just had heavy vehicles and light vehicles ? |
| 21 | And erm , we hardly got to see as much of each other , because we were like , in this group of ten people , and then , and so like one time we skied off piste , and we just had this massive snowball fight off piste , it was like really funny . |
| 22 | Yeah well we , for Queensferry we just had three classes . |
| 23 | ‘ He showed a lot of courage at Leeds on Sunday as we already had two players injured and then we had two sent off . |
| 24 | You had always to be on a level piece of ground , you see , with no rise whatsoever and we always had that ; we had an excellent stretch of green sward a short distance from the school , and we gathered there . |
| 25 | She somebody has fenced it off , she says I could see them far enough , she said , we always had that bit for our camp and it was further down the glen . |
| 26 | My father was a gardener who never earned more than two pounds a week , but we always had good vegetables . |
| 27 | The guards were above us and we always had good warning of their approach down the little staircase to the iron door . |
| 28 | I was paid for the lessons not in money but in food , so we always had enough oil , sugar , cheese and butter — commodities that were now difficult to obtain . |
| 29 | As for Uncle , he had suffered from rheumatism for as long as I can remember , so , all-in-all , we always had more work than we could really cope with . |
| 30 | We found a very nice you know we once had this push up horse , we now found a push up doll which is sort of quite nicely coloured and this little spinning top which I think is quite nice . |