Example sentences of "we had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reduction in interest broadly matched the increase in tax paid between the two years , so the net movement of funds from operations are a critical parameter for whether we 're really generating cash for new initiatives , significantly better at forty five point six million and this this excludes the proceeds of fixed asset disposals , so all in all we had pretty nearly sixty million cash free and clear . |
| 2 | I 'm virtually certain that the woman from whom we had most of the aggravation had been . |
| 3 | The two cases were laid side by side , and likenesses and differences were solemnly analysed as if we had here before us two ‘ real ’ , directly comparable objects . |
| 4 | ‘ We Americans are spoilt , ’ he said , ‘ I doubt whether we would have played in the cold and soaking conditions we had here today . ’ |
| 5 | No they I think they 're the same type of people by and large , as as we had here before . |
| 6 | We had nearly 14 years of continuous office and a lot of my older friends were worn out . ’ |
| 7 | It was ‘ unprofessional , unartistic , and , we had nearly said , ungentlemanly ’ . |
| 8 | WE had nearly all of the travelling world rugby media staying at the same hotel as the Wallabies and decisions had to be made ’ , he said . |
| 9 | Gradually the piles of fish would grow smaller ; we had nearly cleared the pens . |
| 10 | Last night , we had nearly all the play in the first half , without creating a great deal of clear cut chances . |
| 11 | We had not watched closely enough ; we had simply paid our money over the bar and hoped — without knowing it — that Madame would always be there to open the doors and close them behind us . |
| 12 | We would n't look very smart if we had simply given up and allowed some precious Galapagos species to become extinct , by letting the introduced animals get out of control . ’ |
| 13 | Anyway we did n't have to wait , we did n't have to persuade , we had simply to stop conspiring in our oppression . |
| 14 | But er , you know , we had simply got to have our things from the Co-op . |
| 15 | If I may anticipate a point which , I know from experience , the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) may in due course seek to make , those increases mean that , when looked at alongside the extra help that we have made available in the past four years through income-related benefits for the less well-off families with children , which will amount to some £600 million next year , total expenditure on help to families next year will be higher than if we had simply increased child benefit each year since 1987-88 . |
| 16 | If we had simply been moving to another site we would just roll everything up and take it with us . |
| 17 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 18 | Albert as chairman asked me a number of questions to which he already knew the answers for the good reason that we had already gone over them in Fulham . |
| 19 | Worst of all , no one seemed to have remembered that we had already been round this particular course , decided the policy , and rejected compulsory private health insurance . |
| 20 | I approached the service from the point of view of the consumer , as we had already done to good effect with the opticians . |
| 21 | After calling for some ice-cubes which we popped into the straight Pernod , we drank them down , with predictably weird results ( we had already had Dexedrine ) . |
| 22 | Well , we had already lasted three months , and I was keeping my fingers crossed for our relationship to continue for ever . |
| 23 | At fifteen Deborah has a short story published in a collection and hopes to be a writer ; we had already met whilst I was working on another book . |
| 24 | We had already disconnected the water supply , so the first thing was to empty the cistern by flushing , and then remove the flush pipe from the flush pipe horn by folding back the rubber gasket and unscrewing the joint at the cistern . |
| 25 | The same bearded man whom we had already met said that it lay next to the mosque , behind some barbed wire which had been put there to protect it . |
| 26 | Before learning about our infertility , we had already planned to adopt ‘ hard-to-place ’ children , and so , with little prospect of natural children , we applied for adoption all the sooner . |
| 27 | He read the Orders that we had already read , in case we had n't read them . |
| 28 | ‘ Everything 5 kg and up that we had already measured the energetics of . ’ |
| 29 | The alpine char we had already caught at 220 m , weighing around 220 g each , would not have registered at that depth . |
| 30 | I refused to sign it , and so did Steve Ovett — we had already made our positions clear on the subject . |