Example sentences of "we had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think that if we had a pensions regulator , er it might deal with some of the exploitations by Robert Maxwell er and some of the er aspects of where he breached the law and managed to take over pension funds . |
| 2 | ‘ We had a disagreement about it , we did n't actually fall out , ’ she backtracks . |
| 3 | The clay would n't lea you could n't clear the buckets , so we used to what we had a grafting tool , that was like a spade but that was , er , that was er , narrow at one end , the spade at the bottom end was a bit narrow so you could cut th cut the clay out of , out the buckets and that was a hard job too . |
| 4 | I we had a under-manager come , he come from somewhere down Staffordshire way and y you you 've talked about Tweedledum and Tweedledee , they used to call him Biffy he was just like like one of them . |
| 5 | We had a TV set in the common room . |
| 6 | D ye know I forgot we had a telephone ! |
| 7 | Then we had a telephone call from a man who saw you in a hotel here . ’ |
| 8 | We had a telephone system which fitted the bill for them — exactly . |
| 9 | So we had a video , and a special celebration dinner , and it made me feel really great . |
| 10 | and they did n't know which one to watch there was two on at the same time so they picked one and she said if we had a video she said we could be taping the other one and he said how can you do that ? |
| 11 | , writes : LIKE the duck that warned of air raids in Germany , we had a Manchester terrier who gave us a similar warning . |
| 12 | We had a heart-to-heart about it . |
| 13 | We were so poor we had a chicken in the oven for Christmas , and I opened the door to see how it was doing and the fellow from next door was dipping his bread in the gravy . |
| 14 | No , we had a cheque which we presumed had come from Social Services |
| 15 | It can be , yeah we had a stop for lunch , we had to have cups of tea , we had to go to ou , out the back and have a fag cos we ca n't smoke in the office . |
| 16 | However , if we had a matrix of order 100 , it would have 9900 off-diagonal elements , and we can only say that at each stage the sum of the squares of these elements would decrease by 1/4950 at least ; convergence to diagonal form is likely to take very much longer than for a small matrix . |
| 17 | If only we had a trolley . |
| 18 | And , of course , when we had a shooting-party , it was more like midnight before we went to bed . |
| 19 | But we had a competitor and we had to act fast . |
| 20 | Here we had a feature on isolating the gene which causes nagging , another on the gender politics of public lavatories , and a report from Paris on giveaway days at the great houses of couture before coming to a ‘ just discovered ’ fragment of early Jane Austen . |
| 21 | On days of national holiday we had a parade , marching up and down and singing patriotic songs . |
| 22 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 23 | not been putting on any loud music recently I 've not had , I 'll stretch it out a little bit , but erm you know , we had a heater in here and er , record player and er ra er radio and that . |
| 24 | We had a playhouse , up at the top of the fields . |
| 25 | ‘ That incident was where we had a free-kick on our half-way line and he was just marking me tight , and there was a bit of bantering going on between us . |
| 26 | We had a cheese press at Low Birk Hatt but I never recall it being used by our family . |
| 27 | We had a lady pass away not very long ago and she was on my unit . |
| 28 | We did actually have er , it 's a , I think what it might be we had a lady who came to brought her son , mind , her son 's thirty odd and they did the singing for us . |
| 29 | That would be totally wrong and totally undemocratic and heaven help us if we ended back in the situation where we had a lady in number ten Downing Street who waved the hand bag at all and sundry without any thought at all for the democratic situation |
| 30 | We had a lady at Dixon Mrs Brigadier . |