Example sentences of "[adv] and we had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we lived was n't much of a place — there were fourteen families in the one house and as mother 's eyes got worse , less work came in and we had to move into smaller and smaller rooms . |
| 2 | Yeah we got there for ten o'clock and we had to wait till they 'd finished all the out-patients before they 'd let the in-patients . |
| 3 | You see the tractor driving it , there 's the load , this was gathering up the hay as it went along and it tipped it over and we had to make the loads you see . |
| 4 | But in that moment , the fight was over and we had won . |
| 5 | There were hundreds of screaming women outside and we had to whisk him down to the underground car park and shut the gates behind him . |
| 6 | ‘ We could not move back home and we had reached the end of Palestine . ’ |
| 7 | Yeah , picked a rabbit up and we had to chase him , get it out of his mouth . |
| 8 | This is one where I put the price up and then we went and wrote to him with a net price list showing a lower price than I 'd put up and we had to reduce it . |
| 9 | Anyway , forty six and then we had no house , at all , because my mother had died and my father , we said to my father you leave if you want to we should be alright we 'll find somewhere to go and we did n't and we had to have a Nissan hut for about a year , supplied by the Council |
| 10 | It was a Sunday , I was so worried , I did n't know anything about , and I just have to sit there and we had to make conversation . |
| 11 | Remember when that bus bloody stopped there and we had to walk , me you and Zed ? |
| 12 | He stopped again and we had to flatten ourselves against a wall as a Post Office van mounted the pavement to avoid an illegally parked British Telecom van . |
| 13 | But then Hector was to blame too because Hector went they were coming round and we had to get out first , he promised us as the first houses would go up we would get back again |
| 14 | Our offices had expanded very rapidly from 1986 onwards and we had to increase our production capacity here and we were finding it very difficult to recruit trained sewing machinists . |