Example sentences of "be [conj] we had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think how different art history would be if we had had Peter Paul and Helena Rubens , Pablo and Jacqueline Picasso or Barnett and Annalee Newman . |
| 2 | We had to be because we had lost our real families |
| 3 | Cos that 's when we had to stay was n't it ? |
| 4 | All that mattered was that we had reached the summit , and more importantly had a good day out . |
| 5 | What the song was that we had to sing on this stage , with it . |
| 6 | However , at the moment my only concern was that we had completed the circuit of the park . |
| 7 | One of those lessons was that we had to align the needs of the platform with those of the systems . |
| 8 | We got on very well together and suddenly began to realise how strange and curious it all was that we had gone to separate schools . ’ |
| 9 | The main problem was that we had to do it with a RELIANT ROBIN three wheeler car , looking remarkably similar to Del Boy 's . |
| 10 | The problem was that we had to get to Gatwick Airport by 7.30 am for the 8.30 flight to Paris . |
| 11 | ‘ They knew they had a hell of a battle on their hands and the first thing I stressed was that we had to fight to win the ball — and we did , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The only problem was that we had envisaged a tumbledown affair that we would rebuild over the period of time while we were still living and working in London . |
| 13 | Well my feeling was that we had agreed that the parents would sent the subject reports |
| 14 | What I confirmed in answer to the question to which the hon. Gentleman has referred was that we had put in place measures to deal with the problems arising from repossession . |
| 15 | Erm , the result er , was that we had to bring in relief staff , and other staff have had to work overtime . |
| 16 | I suppose it was and we had to tidy it all up afterwards |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 19 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 20 | Some said it was because we had harvested too many beans , but it was because our union was getting stronger . |
| 21 | Part of the high cost was because we had to shoehorn the suite into a difficult-shaped space . |
| 22 | About one hour later we sat on the sands staring at the cool sea in front of us , thinking how long it was since we had had a bath . |
| 23 | And I have to say that it was after we had done a course for them on really bad press releases , because we , they had done some pretty awful press releases in the past , and we were delighted when that one came out because it actually showed that they 'd picked up the message . |