Example sentences of "we had one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we moved we had one armchair and a sewing machine . |
| 2 | ‘ We had temporary offices in Knightsbridge ; the furniture had n't been delivered ; we had one pen between the three of us ; and we were sitting on the floor . |
| 3 | We had one suspect , Kevin Fox , who seemed a perfect match . |
| 4 | We had one night . |
| 5 | ‘ We had one building where staff always complained of being sick , with suggestions that it might be a case of sick building syndrome . |
| 6 | We we had one hour the other night . |
| 7 | ‘ We had one contact , ’ he said , ‘ and we killed one terrorist . ’ |
| 8 | I know we had one lady erm lived underneath us and she was really very nervous and you know erm hardly came out of her flat at all . |
| 9 | The procedure was that Private Boyd handed us each a belt complete with pistol holster and ammo pouches and then Sergeant Waters launched each of us through the door with a pat on the shoulder , telling us we had one minute 's start . |
| 10 | For we had one way at home , another abroad . |
| 11 | ‘ We had one customer who looked at the book , which has in it some really nasty colour pictures of legs and arms half eaten by sharks , ’ said Ainslie Thin . ’ |
| 12 | well I mean we had one girl did n't know what she was going about , but , you know , women do n't have all the work to do in the house and her dad helps at weekends and I said well who made the decision in the first place to do what |
| 13 | Well , we had one man who could cut a truss of hay almost to a pound . |
| 14 | So a conductor 's duty were n't very very nice then , probably three piece duties , which were spread duties but you know people thought they were bringing in a wonderful thing to be one man operated but it was before the war that we had one man operated buses . |
| 15 | Five years ago , we had one person pedalling forwards and five pedalling backwards . |
| 16 | We had one position , the British and French had another . |
| 17 | We had one chance to get it right and , thank God , we succeeded . |
| 18 | And we had one day off a month . |
| 19 | We had one day on the Queen 's Speech , and now we have had two full days on Second Reading . |
| 20 | And we had one rugby pitch . |
| 21 | We had one bloke come last week he lives about fifty yards from the shop . |
| 22 | Well they were two storey buildings , we had one office which was partitioned off for us clerks and the other half was for the traffic superintendent who was responsible , directly responsible to the general manager of the Ipswich Electric Supply and Transport Departments , so erm and then we had another office adjoining that which was a store room because in those days we used to have to erm record and keep in safekeeping all lost property , no end of things we used to have but we , you know , we used to have pigeon holes and lost property that was brought in , was placed into these pigeon holes it 'd be Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday . |
| 23 | ’ We had one month when we were losing thousands of pounds worth of clothes each week , ’ says branch manager Sue Turner ’ It was strange because we never caught anyone . |
| 24 | The accommodation differed in , in one respect and that , that was that in the flat we were on one floor , we had one bedroom , we moved into a house with two toilets separate bathroom and three bedrooms , which enabled us to spread our furniture around , enabled us to have visitors to receive members of the family . |
| 25 | We had one engineer on duty , so he went out and spent about hour drafting a whole bunch of Z-sections made out of steel . |
| 26 | We had one roll-up an hour and you had to roll them so thin to make the tobacco last : jaw-achers they were . |
| 27 | Erm so if we had one penny shared out between two of us we get a half a penny each a half penny which they do n't have any more they used to but they have them any more . |
| 28 | Yes we had one or two , we had one coal boat come in , damaged . |
| 29 | We had one hell of a row last night . |
| 30 | You know I went and showed my dogs over there and afterwards we all went to the pub and we had one hell of a time and then I had to sing would you believe it ? |