Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pron] had [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says , ‘ Last time we met you had a key . ’ |
| 2 | It all started sixteen years ago when our children went to school for the first time and we found we had a gap in our lives to fill . |
| 3 | ‘ But when we came we had the fireplace taken out . |
| 4 | We booked a table in a restaurant for our office Christmas party but when we arrived they had no record of the booking we made . |
| 5 | We 'd just moved in when we discovered we had a mouse in the kitchen . |
| 6 | ( We thought we had a budgie in the office one day — whistles constantly ! ) . |
| 7 | In the past , this did not mean that we would not move from company to company , it most certainly did not mean that we ha that we thought we had a job for life , but it did mean that we expected a degree of permanence and improvement as part of the reward for our endeavours and labour . |
| 8 | It was a sad and disillusioning blow for 261 Squadron , as John Pain relates : ‘ This was the one day when we thought we had the edge . |
| 9 | We thought he had a weakness for us and our Empire . |
| 10 | We brought him to Lingfield last week and he went so well on the sand , we thought he had a chance today , ’ said the trainer . |
| 11 | We , we felt we had a lot of talking to do . |
| 12 | ‘ Once we knew we had a daughter someplace out there , what could we do but try to find her ? ’ they said . |
| 13 | We called ourselves proudly the extremists , the vanguard , but it was n't until we read the American CLIT papers in 1973 that we knew we had a name other than men-haters . |
| 14 | ‘ A lot of crews can try and win outright , but we knew we had the boat speed to move it through , ’ she said . |
| 15 | We said we had no idea . |
| 16 | The last one we had we had a budget of ten thousand pounds the company which did it said that it would normally not take on a project of that sort of cost but they found a junior member of staff to take it on and the end product I mean that 's going back nearly five years now , was quite er acceptable and welcome but now it it looks very much out , the force has been reorganised , we need to give it a new look . |
| 17 | Well we had we had a lot of snow in those days , far more than than there 's been since then . |
| 18 | We had we had a training session for ourselves like you know |
| 19 | You know we we had we had the candle lights or these box lamps . |