Example sentences of "we had [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's designed to sleep two or three but on one occasion we had four adults sleeping inside . |
| 2 | Peter added : ‘ It 's a shame because we had four teams ready to play this year — more than in any previous year . |
| 3 | And and between that er every year the conference was held and er we had four meetings a a year local meetings . |
| 4 | We had four violinists from the Philharmonic Orchestra . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Ten years ago we had four refineries . |
| 8 | ‘ To begin with , we had four people but no office to work in . |
| 9 | Suddenly we had four rooms , a plumbed in bath and no poor Irish downstairs . |
| 10 | we had four kids I mean now it 's only when we get visitors you know when |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | Everything had gone brilliantly , we had 30,000 people there , the show was making loadsamoney and everybody was in a good mood , especially Joe Bugner who was getting £250,000 quid . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We had eight boys and two girls . |
| 15 | nin , must been ninety , nineteen fifty I think , yes , we had eight years before our first |
| 16 | and erm if I could just mention that we had eight grammar schools , there was erm , in alphabetical order they were Bec Beccles , er Beccles Sir John the Man , er Bungay Grammar which had er small boarding house . |
| 17 | So we had eight people huddled over the desk arguing about the sound . |
| 18 | we had five pounds worth |
| 19 | er , we had five weeks . |
| 20 | ‘ I made up my mind about that long before we had five goals stuck past us at Oldham on Saturday . |
| 21 | We had five days of intensive work , much talk and discussion and the most beautiful summer weather . |
| 22 | And we had sixty pullets at the point of lay in this house to be moved out from the house to a field . |
| 23 | Well the Germans was shelling and these B things but we had sixty pounder guns then . |
| 24 | ‘ We had 23,000 people seeing our exhibition in Osaka in six days , and of course Wordsworth is taught at Japanese universities . ’ |
| 25 | When Ted took me out into the sea , we had fifty fish |
| 26 | We had fifty percent off the price you see ! total . |
| 27 | Still we had two ladies does n't come . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | So if we had two N A two S O four , that would be two times N A two you 've got four N As and two times the S O four . |
| 30 | That night we had two watchmen outside , just in case . |