Example sentences of "we [vb past] have [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We expected to have security problems with Mrs Thatcher , but in fact they were nothing compared with those posed by the other guest on that show — Barry Manilow . |
| 2 | obviously we got to have fears , because there 's something to be , they 're the largest nation in fucking Europe so everybody 's got to fear them , because they co-hearse all the other into being part of their group and that sort of stuff got ta be |
| 3 | Then the afternoon , we 'd had lunch anyway I 'd got up out the chair , I was so bloody livid ! |
| 4 | The Don admitted that we would have won more if we 'd had Harvey in earlier so perhaps that 's the most telling point of all . |
| 5 | I did n't think he 'd do that , because we 'd had problems before , because of the black and white thing , There 's a lot of people who will just stop you in the street . |
| 6 | If we 'd had children … ’ |
| 7 | We 'd had dinner and were on our way back to the hotel when I told him I was going to go for a walk before going to bed . |
| 8 | I wish we 'd had time to work on things . |
| 9 | We eventually found the car by good luck more than good management ; I wished we 'd had time to start from the top end and find how we 'd gone wrong . |
| 10 | Earlier we 'd had coffee and conversation in Mary 's tea room , an interview more off the record than on , and for little obvious reason . |
| 11 | All the towers we climbed had abseil rings . |
| 12 | When we started having sex I was fifteen and scared that if I went on the Pill the doctor would tell my mum . |
| 13 | it 's like party balloons , she 's got like water balloons I mean , with water and , they was , I had them in this box mucking about , I was trying take something out , and then like we dropped a water balloon in their bathroom and erm , we started having water fight , and that they filled them up and go into the balloons and then you go and tie it up |
| 14 | So we said , Okay ; it 's about time we started having kids of our own . |
| 15 | We loved having visitors , especially if there were other children . |
| 16 | But we did have fun . |
| 17 | Now the good news … we did have winner at the weekend with the racing Duke of Gloucestershire … |
| 18 | We did have committees and we began to coordinate activities and er careers conventions suddenly sprouted engineering council 's banners and the people all got together again under these banners and we went to these careers conventions and tried to obviously put across the image of engineering itself . |
| 19 | We did have lines , hundred lines , I must do not do this or something like that which was very negative really . |
| 20 | We did have quotations from Wood . |
| 21 | And erm I , when I was in , in hospital we did have triplets two of those lived alright though . |
| 22 | What we did have difficulty was er with an odd occasion where a man was on the verge of being dismissed . |
| 23 | At least we did have boss , sometime it 's not being good you can say , they 've been good , and they say ah , it 's just what Phil wants . |
| 24 | and I feel that if we did have stock then then we would erm sell it . |
| 25 | Of course we did have gangs , as do as other places : London , Birmingham , Manchester , Liverpool , Cardiff , etc . |
| 26 | Working out the visibility was easier as we did have guidelines here — a tree on the other side of the airfield was at 1,000 yards , a distant farmhouse 2 miles , and if you could n't see the briefing room it was foggy . |
| 27 | We did have hopes of being re-equipped for this Tripoli show , ’ — by coincidence he was writing on the very day Tripoli fell — ‘ but they did n't materialise , so we shall have to seek the bubble reputation elsewhere . |
| 28 | We appeared to have students of the same native wit coming to courses in the arts and the sciences and the technologies , and the technologies were requiring quite a lot of these colleges to kick off with unclassified degrees , and finally began to weaken a little , I think , when they found that business studies and art and design were doing no such thing . |
| 29 | And we had had loads of |
| 30 | Think how different art history would be if we had had Peter Paul and Helena Rubens , Pablo and Jacqueline Picasso or Barnett and Annalee Newman . |