Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] we had " in BNC.

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1 well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice
2 Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment .
3 I have nothing against the monarchy , in principle , erm I think that perhaps if we had our own parliament in Scotland and had the Queen as a head of state , as do Australia , Canada , and all the commonwealth countries , that would be fine .
4 ‘ I 'm half inclined to pursue her tomorrow ; perhaps if we had her we would have a few more answers to all this .
5 I do n't think it could have worked out better if we had written the ending ourselves .
6 We would understand the bark of a dog , like we do our own language , only if we had the mind of a dog .
7 And they 'd be all the same size so if we had a piece like those two stuck together
8 Erm so if we had one penny shared out between two of us we get a half a penny each a half penny which they do n't have any more they used to but they have them any more .
9 So if we had a sixth and a twelfth well the sixth is the same as two twelfth and another twelfth makes how many ?
10 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 .
11 So if we had something like that page .
12 Yes well we save , we possibly saved that time , most of was was completely er occupied , so if we had n't have seen the fire , there could have been forty lives or forty families at risk there .
13 So if we had A add B , that 's one number , take away A minus B it comes to two .
14 Okay , it 's on the bottom , so if we had ten times , we made it ten times as big then we do n't get ten times the current we get one tenth .
15 Right so if we had a test statistic greater than one point seven zero on a T ratio .
16 Right so if we had a T ratio of two point five , right , we could reject the null hypothesis of the five percent level but we would n't be able to reject the null hypothesis at the one percent level .
17 Right , so if we had a test statistic greater than three point eight it would reject our null hypothesis .
18 Personally I could n't have cared less if we had n't caught a single rabbit .
19 Still they helped , especially if we had a loaf of bread to go with them .
20 I wonder very much what situation Oxford City would be in if we had n't got a Central Government .
21 It was only because we had the quality systems in place , okay we did n't have accreditation er at the time , but the quality systems were in place , that we were invited to tender for the Crossrail project for Rickmansworth station .
22 They were so dependent on Britain for their trade and knew that they were accepted into the EC only because we had become a member that it was not a subject that exercised them overmuch .
23 The detention of COWAN 's president serves as a lesson especially because we had similar experiences with Brooklyn Village in Acornhoek , between 1989 and 1990 .
24 I realized , however , that to do so after we had been deprived of half our rifles and whatever security the protection of the Government afforded us would be to invite almost certain massacre .
25 It was not long before we had to try our swords , as the billhooks had become , on something real and so a row of perfectly harmless Brussels Sprouts were decapitated .
26 ‘ I made up my mind about that long before we had five goals stuck past us at Oldham on Saturday .
27 But on the question of grant maintained , of course , let's not forget what happened some time ago in places like Manchester Grammar School erm long before we had this new opting out legislation they were forced by the Labour Government to go direct grant , which they did , and they are a highly successful and I could rehearse just as many success stories , in fact many times more than Jack has rehearsed with his Hull Grammar School .
28 The new book was to be handed to me by the minister , the Revd Dr Adam Burnet , only after we had signed the register — no self-respecting hotel would have accepted us with different names .
29 It was only after we had settled in and had sorted out our luggage that we realised that although it was still broad daylight , our watches told us that it was nearly two o'clock in the morning !
30 We were to witness a different and more promising sacrifice only after we had spent many patient weeks in Bira , when a white cock and a black goat were ritually slaughtered in Sinar Surya 's hull , signifying that at last we were about to depart .
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