Example sentences of "we [adv] had [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had oil lamps then , we only had oil lamps , they had n't invented electric lamps , then . |
| 2 | We only had enamel plates at home and never had food like this . |
| 3 | At school we only had alliances , offensive or defensive . |
| 4 | Well we only had Epping hospital dear , that 's all we had , there was only Epping and er they were er you know done what they could very good and we had a dentist , oh dentist you had to go er , oh right to Old Harlow , up er |
| 5 | No-one knew we were on this flight , and we only had eyes for one another , frankly . |
| 6 | The two litre size because of course the two litre is not well it it 's erm we just had problems with erm finding somebody who would give us a er good quality bottle . |
| 7 | ‘ I think we just had help from an unexpected quarter . ’ |
| 8 | I probably , homework , because her daughter was dying or something and she , her daughter was quite seriously ill and taken to hospital , so we just had Miss so we were n't given any homework for that |
| 9 | we had to plaster it underneath because erm he had to , we just had wires like this down the end ? |
| 10 | I I 've I 've only got one report that I went to erm a meeting of the youth club erm in December I think it was , we just had sort of general discussions , nothing really to report erm back on that . |
| 11 | no we just had Jimmy Savile did n't we ? |
| 12 | We just had time to eat a beautiful breakfast and read the complimentary morning papers before we touched down at London . |
| 13 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 14 | Peter Barnes when we already had Carl Harris and Arthur Graham . |
| 15 | Look , in my day , before the war , we always had wingers , none of this booting up the middle and hoping for the best . |
| 16 | We always had trouble like that It was horrible You 'd go into the changing rooms after someone had tried on some rubber tights and there 'd be cum all over them . |
| 17 | ‘ We always had homework to do . |
| 18 | We always had busloads of Glen Miller fans turning up , because the name ‘ The Dance Kings ’ kinda denoted that we would be playing that kind of music . |
| 19 | ‘ We always had books and diagrams on meteorology but it has been a very dead subject up until now , ’ said head of science Peter Simpson . |
| 20 | We always had books and newspapers in the house , and I talked to the children about them every day . |
| 21 | Well you see , the , we , we always had club collectors . |
| 22 | ‘ When I came back from the war , we still had rationing for a few years . |
| 23 | From time to time we still had meat , for cattle still had to be slaughtered and there was little transport , because of the fuel shortage , to carry them to the wholesale market . |
| 24 | If we still had horses … " |
| 25 | " If we still had horses we could eat them . " |
| 26 | ‘ I wish we still had patrons ’ , Roy Spring says , ‘ they made all the difference . ’ |
| 27 | We still had coffee together in the mornings , pushed our babies to the park , giggled together . |
| 28 | I , I can remember erm when we ever had women in from the country they 'd say , oh yes , y y my mother told me always to take raspberry , raspberry leaf tea . |
| 29 | I heard the words of the Bible so often — in those days we also had RI , Religious Instruction — I came to love the stories and the literature . |
| 30 | Roby and Pat were behind us and we also had support from Nick Raynsford , Martin Jackson , David Nicholas , the editor of ITN , Harry Conroy , the General Secretary of the NUJ and several members of the House of Lords . |