Example sentences of "we had [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Confederate flag had been Ellen 's idea , to be unfurled whenever we had charterers from the deep South , and this week 's guests were three married couples from Georgia . |
| 2 | Then occasionally when we had houses broken into and so on , if it was thought that a tramp could have been responsible , it used to be a great help if we gave out nine tickets for tramps and only eight of the nine were admitted to the casual ward , then we should clamp down of course on the one who failed to turn up . |
| 3 | We had games on Wednesday afternoon but we had , in the senior school |
| 4 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 5 | It would , however , be much more convincing if we had proof positive : some sort of impartial and well-monitored test . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps she knew we had proof of her treachery , but there is no need for her to fear our vengeance . ’ |
| 7 | In Bristol we had Kent Walton and Disc-A-Gogo Things were buzzing happily , not least in my own life . |
| 8 | We had pride in our uniforms , pride in the way we kept them . |
| 9 | And we used to c as we had nicknames for the ones we did n't like , she was called . |
| 10 | We had baskets , special baskets for it . |
| 11 | There 's another story about me dad that most of used to borrow we had moneylenders in , in the streets , there was quite a few moneylenders in the . |
| 12 | I think he had a little bit of ill health and my immediate superior took over as Traffic Superintendent and he was there throughout the war and when I came out he was my boss and er you see and er and then in nineteen forty eight was made Transport Manager , because as you say we had to split from Electric Supply and he carried on until erm nineteen seventy two and erm , we had government reorganization and erm they did away with people like the Town Clerk and Transport Manager and erm erm was retired , early retirement , the same as the Town Clerk and erm they brought in a General Manager from away and brought in more staff with him and that was came in and er so I then applied for the position , which was going , there was , there was Traffic Superintendent was going er Chief Administration Officer , Chief Engineer and erm er Bodywork Maintenance Superintendent . |
| 13 | Neither we , nor the shadowy crowds on the bank calling out blessings and affectionate greetings , realised that it was a last farewell , though we had misgivings . |
| 14 | But they would , we had Olar who was very good and who very rapidly was was earning his keep , and he did n't even stay here , so , you know , if you make the right appointment , it 's always dodgy that , you know . |
| 15 | We were all expected to work hard and at the end of each term we had examinations . |
| 16 | W. S. We had tunics with two pockets there and two pockets here , where kept our ‘ fixings ’ . |
| 17 | So we had tunics with just two pockets , one for a book and one for a whistle . |
| 18 | We spent a lot of time outside on exercises , we had runs every morning in full combat kit which were longer and harder than the ones at Orange , we dug trenches , learnt how to camouflage ourselves and how to move across country at night . |
| 19 | Where once we had Tizwas and The Tube , we now have Bob and Paula 's Big Breakfast and The Word . |
| 20 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 21 | Because we had sleet did n't we last night ? |
| 22 | We had guarantees , from the local military authorities , who provided heavily armed escorts , a Hercules plane , and even gave the green light to our closer local advisers . |
| 23 | We had Gaboon vipers , puff adders , spitting cobras as well as harmless species like tree snakes and pythons . |
| 24 | We were loath to prejudice your dealings there , or do anything to rouse tempers until we had Harry back with us . |
| 25 | We had shoulder of lamb , frozen peas , and potatoes roasted round the meat . |
| 26 | He used to come and sit at my table when we had meals . |
| 27 | First we had Sainsbury 's The Magazine , then appeared our new format Journal , and now Homebase is in action . |
| 28 | This was a welcome contrast to Anfield where we had tons of possesion , but uninspired performances in front of both goals . |
| 29 | ‘ We had chat and a cuppa ’ |
| 30 | So now we had electricity , petrol and water , and ineffable home-made bread which had the consistency of baked plaster . |