Example sentences of "we had [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want peas or beans with yo peas cos we had baked beans last night . |
| 2 | We had roast potatoes for dinner that day ! ’ |
| 3 | Our profits are disappointingly small in relation to , er er , the , er first half of last year er then , we had buoyant conditions and we made more money than we ever had before . |
| 4 | It 's designed to sleep two or three but on one occasion we had four adults sleeping inside . |
| 5 | Peter added : ‘ It 's a shame because we had four teams ready to play this year — more than in any previous year . |
| 6 | And and between that er every year the conference was held and er we had four meetings a a year local meetings . |
| 7 | We had four violinists from the Philharmonic Orchestra . |
| 8 | Well they had one man in the hold and they used to have a fork lift in the hold , in Holland , with one man and he could do that job and they sent one man ashore , well over here we had four men in the hold and two men ashore . |
| 9 | And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know . |
| 10 | ‘ Ten years ago we had four refineries . |
| 11 | Suddenly we had four rooms , a plumbed in bath and no poor Irish downstairs . |
| 12 | we had four kids I mean now it 's only when we get visitors you know when |
| 13 | Following a very rough crossing from Portsmouth during which I slept very little it dawned on me that we were on our own in a Renault van which was half a ton overweight , had a top speed of 60 mph , an up-hill speed of 40 mph provided you had a run at it , jumped out of fourth gear unless you held it in position and we had 1850 miles to go ! |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | If we had superhuman reactions then perhaps we could manage with a rigid pole , for we would then be fast enough to ease off when the fish made a sudden plunge . |
| 16 | We kept a steady increase , you see when the two year course stared first , I think we had eight students , and then it grew , you see . |
| 17 | We had eight boys and two girls . |
| 18 | nin , must been ninety , nineteen fifty I think , yes , we had eight years before our first |
| 19 | In my day we had great stars like that Peter Barnes , then there was Brian Greenhoff , he were grand . |
| 20 | Well I do n't think we felt any more important , At the beginning , we had great hopes you see , on Nationalization , but they quickly faded you see , and we were soon lulled into a sense of hopelessness . |
| 21 | We had great days , on Cader or Craig yr Ysfa , at Tremadog or in the Moelwyns . |
| 22 | we had five pounds worth |
| 23 | er , we had five weeks . |
| 24 | ‘ I made up my mind about that long before we had five goals stuck past us at Oldham on Saturday . |
| 25 | We had five days of intensive work , much talk and discussion and the most beautiful summer weather . |
| 26 | Mind you , we did have a little exotica in our small North Harrow branch [ apart from Molly , Betty etc. at the Christmas party ] ; there was Swiss Knorr 's French Onion soup for the daring housewife , and if a customer really wanted to impress her dinner guests , then we had small tins of pâté de fois gras . |
| 27 | And we had sixty pullets at the point of lay in this house to be moved out from the house to a field . |
| 28 | sloppy kisses and this this little girl we had sloppy kisses ooh that 's mucky , that 's just for babies . |
| 29 | Still we had two ladies does n't come . |
| 30 | Another grandfather , a retired Manchester newsagent , would light the fires , mend shoes , and peel the potatoes , while in a south London stableman 's home the grandfather would clean the shoes and cook too — ‘ We always said we had two mothers and two fathers , always . ’ |