Example sentences of "we had two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still we had two ladies does n't come . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That night we had two watchmen outside , just in case . |
| 5 | Yeah , it was a lovely house yeah but we wanted to come back to Harlow you see , so we did like , well we always liked Harlow , really the only reason we went to erm er Hatfield was the fact that Harlow Council no way would move us out of that maisonette , we had two boys and we lived upstairs and Gary had all sorts of accidents on those stairs , in fact we all had because they were outside , erm so in the winter they iced up |
| 6 | but mind you we had much worse a problem that day because we had two sets of sniffer dogs who did n't like something and the first lot that were in and did n't like something that we 'd |
| 7 | In March , as in past years , we had two members in the delegation that met with the all party committee for pensions in the House of Commons where we raised many of the matters that are worrying our generation including community care . |
| 8 | the either side , then below the bumper thing , we had the fog lights and above the bumper we had two spotlights . |
| 9 | ‘ I said I said it to Arnie we had two choices : that file on the committee table or Crocus had never happened and surely was n't happening now . |
| 10 | Well we had two copies sent to us because Amanda sent away for some |
| 11 | We had two minutes to get into cover and walked round to the other side of the wall and crouched down with our hands over our ears and our helmets firmly strapped on . |
| 12 | We had two hours kip yesterday did n't we Ed ? |
| 13 | We had two jackpots . |
| 14 | Erm the inter-club show erm we had to pay judges er two of them thirty pound , we would normally have got Keith for nothing , I know that we had two judges so we had to pay them er we did like so that 's two fifty pounds and we bought some we had some old trophies which we were able to buy plates for to use for that event . |
| 15 | Anyway three people have phoned yesterday , we had two phone calls yesterday , in the morning I had one last night and there was another one this morning about the washing machine and I said sorry but I said the advert was put in the Campaign I said a month or so ago . |
| 16 | unc Now study this example : unc Making the decimal 0.12 into a whole number for division the x 10 machine had to be used twice , x 100 in other words , since we had two figures after the point . |
| 17 | In setting up big rallies in Berlin 's Olympic Stadium in 1981 , we had two committee members in London ( my wife Marlies and me ) , two in Berlin and two in the United States ( living in Virginia Beach and Los Angeles ) . |
| 18 | They were unlikely to provide an adequate quantity of unflat best bitter in the rehearsal rooms so by special dispensation we had two bottles of white wine per day , which , of course , were shared between him and Michael , who drinks very little . |
| 19 | ten ninety five and , and we had two bottles last night so it costs us sixty pounds . |
| 20 | We had two gatherings of businessmen in Brighton and London , attended by the Minister for the Arts , and a new director was appointed for the Lewes All Saints Community Arts Centre . |
| 21 | But for instance , say we had two shunters , I had two shunters . |
| 22 | And we had two shields , we had two separate teams to go immediately to the two bedrooms which , in our er esti est estimations , that will be where any adults were more likely to be in the flat . |
| 23 | We had two nets |
| 24 | Because er I knew the area very well , I was er we had two committees which were composed of two counties , we had the Priory Committee th that was a home at Selkirk , a children 's home , and we had in cooperation with Berwickshire , Berwickshire and Selkirkshire were the owners of the Priory children 's home . |
| 25 | But the company was always wanting new plays , and we had two theatres now . |
| 26 | I think we had two ounces of margarine a week on each ration book , and butter I think we had an ounce of butter a week , and meat was very scarce . |
| 27 | For evening entertainment we had two slide shows and a ceilidh . |
| 28 | We had two statements before us : Teddy Mayer 's of McLaren , who had asserted that drivers were ‘ just interchangeable light bulbs : you plug them in and they do the job ’ and Bernard Ecclestone 's classic , ‘ no driver is worth more than $25,000 ‘ . |
| 29 | We were sharing a two-bedroomed council house with my Pop , and although we only paid thirty bob towards the rent , we had two kids and Malc was earning just £4.10.0 a week as a butcher . |
| 30 | We had two stands this year — a first for — and it was great to be able to rely on the Essex Dog Display Team to man our second stand . |