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

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1 Firstly , nobody , but nobody would want to levy charges until it was a last resort , but if the alternative to levying those charges were perhaps that we had to cut the staffing levels in those adult training centres , then you get a different answer to the question , and I had a meeting about four weeks ago with the heads of some of our centres who 've been asking parents and carers that question .
2 This motif was used on the air every day and we rang all possible changes on the ‘ we 're being done in by the big bogey-man ’ theme , so much so that we had some of our faithful old lady listeners actually in tears .
3 Large pieces of timber take some considerable time to come to equilibrium with the surrounding humidity and , because the English weather changes so often , there was generally no time to build up dangerous differences in swelling strains so that we had comparatively little trouble from this cause , so long as the aircraft were in this country .
4 This was well below our own dead slow speed so that we had to keep stopping , or steam in wide circles to hold our position astern .
5 So that we had a few tiles that we knew what their pattern and date was .
6 I would imagine the plaster wall have to be replaced cos there 's a lot of work that needs to be done on t we 've already had to deal with the plastering once , in fact we would n't have noticed cos we had n't seen it before but what happened is that the the frame of the hall particularly shrank so that we had gaps in between where the plastering was and where the wood was and we had to have a couple of men that we used for this , erm come in with lime plaster and fill in all the cracks for a week or two .
7 It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible .
8 I intended to say merely that we had done as he had instructed us in his letter , hoping that he would thereby confirm the letter as a matter of course .
9 Now playing at inside-right , Whitworth was top scorer with 16 goals , but he also combined with Frank so effectively that we had a comfortable 2nd Division season , and then he headed our scoring chart again in 1924–25 .
10 And er wash the cups and And he used to have to go running er down with messages down to or down to the head office rather that we had an office in where where our fitting shop was where there was a draughtsman 's office .
11 I think it it was something anyway that we had popular something like that .
12 ‘ With ‘ Spirit Of Eden ’ it was just that we had the freedom to move into this constructive freeform style of playing , which up till then we just could n't afford to do , ’ continues Mark .
13 It was just that we had so little in common .
14 Right , it 's just that we had this issue in support of other research a questionnaire and in support key divisions , sorry , key departments have lists of named individuals who can authorise questionnaires .
15 Not that we had much time for feeling anything , we were so busy in the Met Office just then .
16 Not that we had any fundamental objection to the children .
17 I found her so refreshing — amusing and extrovert — and knew very quickly that we had something special . ’
18 You 'll remember yesterday that we had the collection for the Crawley Strikers and that the General Secretary , rather , I was gon na say foolishly then , generously er said that we would double whatever was collected .
19 ‘ When we split up I was really pissed off that we had n't achieved a lot of things we could have done , and that mood was coming through in the last records because it was depressing .
20 Outwardly , I criticised them as much as anybody , feeling more than pissed off that we had been hit on their account .
21 I knew the face and knew at once that we had been intimate , but I had no idea who she was .
22 ‘ Everything 5 kg and up that we had already measured the energetics of . ’
23 But it finally ended up that we had the whole thing Rousay Egilsay and Wyre .
24 The auditors picked up that we had a pink purchase order form which was neither a commissioning letter nor a contract .
25 Reaching Herr 's headquarters at Dugny , Serrigny recalls he ‘ had the impression very clearly that we had entered a lunatic asylum .
26 When I found out that we had been placed next to each other in class with all my friends around I went , ‘ Oh no , I 'm sitting next to Grant ’ .
27 We had never consciously allocated days to each other ; it had just turned out that we had grabbed them and put our stamp on them .
28 Wedgie [ Tony Benn ] then made what I found a very effective speech , pointing out that we had got to look at the problem in domestic as well as international terms .
29 The day before we were going to fly we were putting the airplane together — it was a Sunday — and we found out that we had forgotten to make the flanges that held the tailpipe to the airplane .
30 Vicky pointed out that we had deposited our own jewellery in the safe in our room and that other guests had probably done the same .
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