Example sentences of "when we had a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 so erm , and that went on for , I suppose till the end of the war when er , when we had a reduction in hours again , we went back to the normal nine till half past five .
2 When we had a chance to view the boat from a distance with the wind at the bottom end of Force 6 , we noticed that the overlapping headsail lost its shape quite badly when half-furled .
3 Well , hang on , we 've got one pizza shared out between four people , right , erm how many pizzas would you go , you think that was just right that , that was wonderful , we all had just the right amount of pizza , when we had a quarter , when we had one shared between the four of us
4 And , of course , when we had a shooting-party , it was more like midnight before we went to bed .
5 He was always loyal and when we had a house maid who adored Basil and had little affection for his sisters and she used to stand up for him as hardly done by , he would have none of it , to my remembered satisfaction .
6 When we had a quiz , as often we did in the caravans waiting for filming to begin , Ken always won hands down . ’
7 ‘ I was here as a 10-year-old when we had a record crowd of 75,000 for the Cup tie against Aston Villa in 1938 , ’ he said .
8 And another instance of that was well this was not so long ago when we had a loan of a barge from just a mini landing craft sort of thing where the front of it folded down .
9 ‘ A lot of good any of that did when we had a captain who could n't fucking hack it , did n't have the guts to admit it , and had to send good men into a fucking killing ground to prove how fucking brave he really was . ’
10 When we had a show in Basle , they asked questions in Parliament . ’
11 When we had an exchange visit from ICI operators at Billingham , they were surprised to learn that their safety suits contained materials which we 'd made from their phenol , ’ said Bob Hodson .
12 Britain invented world trade when we had an empire 100 or 200 years ago .
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