Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] we had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if we go back to two years ago on the question of whether or not we should accept erm almost do n't think you 'll get any reply the professional advice of an officer , two years ago or so we had the professional advice of an officer , we were looking at yearly report of the er inspector and |
| 2 | Where once we had Tizwas and The Tube , we now have Bob and Paula 's Big Breakfast and The Word . |
| 3 | ‘ Sooner or later we had to start hitting the back of the net . |
| 4 | We had supper at eight which was usually a rock cake or a scone , or sometimes we had toast , and a cup of tea . |
| 5 | Where sometimes we had the back of the heads and |
| 6 | It occurred to me this was not an ideal arrangement ; I had a funny , cold feeling in the middle of dinner that perhaps we had been wrong to delay matters until this last moment , where there could be no immediate follow-up , when I must leave him the next day . |
| 7 | I think that perhaps we had better hear the Home Secretary explain it . |
| 8 | And I can only really regret with er with hindsight that er we as a District Council did n't pursue our point er more vigorously , erm as our general approach to these matters is er to cooperate as far as we possibly can rather than enter into conflict , and I think that perhaps we had n't given as much emphasis to er the er our views as we ought to have done . |
| 9 | I hope we may be forgiven for feeling a little jubilant , on that beautiful dawn , at the thought that together we had helped to raise over 20,000 for Christian Aid . |
| 10 | So we sat in the swimming pool in Reykjavik knowing that outside we had all the food , all the clothing , the skis , the chutes . |
| 11 | Remote though this area can be , even the minor roads are generally good , although once we had to switch the Citroën 's self-levelling suspension to ‘ high ’ to increase ground clearance through a ford . |
| 12 | Somebody said that it was a colder day than any we had morning I read Houghton 's Life of Keats and copied out some passages from Keats ' letters . |
| 13 | Next day we went ashore near Kapp Lee on Edgeøya , and had a long walk up through Rosenbergdalen , a fine valley which was much more vegetated than any we had so far seen . |
| 14 | The light in mid-river was silver , and the current stronger than any we had seen in Egypt . |
| 15 | Well , it was more disappointing than even we had expected . |
| 16 | When Kenneth Clarke first told us of his ideas these and other flaws were so obvious that many of us assumed that either we had analysed the situation incorrectly or that he too had spotted the pitfalls and had the solutions up his sleeve . |
| 17 | We asked around , and eventually we had a tremendous stroke of luck . |
| 18 | Absolutely , it was absolutely fantastic and despite the rain , spectators enjoyed themselves and course designer Mike Etherington-Smith is a genius , and locally we had something to cheer us , you may have heard earlier . |
| 19 | North Sea oil came on board and suddenly we had a product which people wanted to buy . |
| 20 | We had sent Johann back to the Castle of Zenda and suddenly we had a message from him . |
| 21 | And so we had , but were too polite to comment on the truly striking resemblance . |
| 22 | ‘ I had a dimple there , ’ the Senator had confessed with his engaging frankness , ‘ which my advisers determined made me look too baby-faced , and so we had it removed . ’ |
| 23 | It was therefore decided to run a third train on December 5 , but this would clash with the start of our intensive Santa Special operations and so we had no choice but to operate the train from the Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway Station . ’ |
| 24 | Once they 'd done with our , figures and our faces then we 'd got to look for our innards and so we had had to have inner cleanliness . |
| 25 | the flat in , in London , the flat we came from and so we had accumulated a little more furniture than one would usually have in two rooms and the kitchen and we got here and were allowed to spread ourselves , if there 's one criticism that one could say about this house , is that the size of the rooms confines you to what you put in them , they 're square , that the , the division between the living room and the dining room is through a pair of glass doors , where perhaps that could of been arranged with either sliding doors or some other feature so as not to separate it yet again into two square boxes and erm |
| 26 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 27 | That became even more apparent when the second script came in , and so we had to drop it . |
| 28 | And and things settled nice and quietly and all the blue lights come flying down here , and so we had to they was about to chop down this blokes door and we said , Whoa whoa whoa . |
| 29 | And so we had a proper argument about this , of course he was a grown up man , I were only a kid you know . |
| 30 | And so we had discussions with them and I can tell you , you know , it was at least six months before the consultants ever made any specific move to introduce the system as such er because of our overtures to them , because of the fact that we asked regularly to meet them and to consult on various points . |