Example sentences of "[conj] we [adj] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we had our hiccups and we had all sorts of you know difficult moments for all of us where we all had to face ourselves and You know I remember my little boy said , Oh Mum y what about my Christmas you know I was putting a lot of time into the the striker 's Christmas and he said how do you become a striker 's child ? |
| 2 | I knew that we all had sold a fair number of tickets to friends , relatives , colleagues , in fact , anyone who would buy them , but it would n't be enough to fill one tier . |
| 3 | I 've never seen him go so mad , far worse than the usual Saturday night when he had lost all his money gambling and came home so drunk that we all had to hide under the bed . |
| 4 | The odds , as they well knew , were against them finishing even one tour , but war is a horrible business and we all had to do the best we could in discouraging circumstances . |
| 5 | Anyone sitting down for extensive periods ( as we all had to do in our school days ) would have to tense many of the body 's muscles in order to sit up straight . |