Example sentences of "[verb] we had [art] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't know we had a very hard life when we were kids but you know w er got on ourselves later on we we had a fairly easy life but erm you do n't forget those old times though do you not really .
2 ‘ He does n't know we had an affair , ’ said Maisie .
3 And er as I say we had a concert after this but th th I ca n't remember whether they were professionals or whether any good amateur people .
4 Say we had an accelerometer .
5 Says Payne : ‘ We found we had a tremendous amount in common , a real northern European outlook with people from the Pacific rim , Siberia or the Russian heartlands .
6 Smith Kline Beecham spokesman Alan Chandler said : ‘ Once we found we had a slightly higher incidence of mumps-meningitis we notified the authorities .
7 ‘ Allowing for the generation gap , we found we had a surprising amount in common .
8 It all started sixteen years ago when our children went to school for the first time and we found we had a gap in our lives to fill .
9 Nigel Clark , CHairman of the Sunday Racing Campaign , says we had a meeting in Doncaster in July which was an unprecedented success .
10 Said Haas : ‘ Whatever anybody says we had no deal with Nigel before he fell out with Frank Williams .
11 ‘ But when we came we had the fireplace taken out .
12 Then she noticed we had a child with us in a pushchair .
13 I do n't want to ring your mum and say look we had a spot of bother but now we 're back in Caracas and Matt 's dead , yes , you heard it on the news but I do n't want to talk about it .
14 Can you remember we had a judicial review ?
15 If it had n't been for the long hair and the high heels , we 'd have thought we had a squaddie on our hands .
16 ‘ After the disappointment of losing to Germany , we showed we had the guts to come back .
17 D ye know I forgot we had a telephone !
18 We did n't think we had a right to judge .
19 ‘ If we did n't think we had a chance of winning the election we could have produced a manifesto that promised the earth , ’ said party chairman Kees Maxey .
20 But I do n't think we had the right attitude , ’ Sheila says .
21 ‘ We collected 30 bags of rubbish in one day , and realised we had a serious problem , ’ he says ‘ From then on I decided to blitz the village a couple of days every week .
22 Before raising Biggles we had a few failures with baby owls the shocking Barnys had abused .
23 and we had er , I mean we had a bright orange swivel chair and when that came out it was called the Orbit or something , something really weird and it had a big back on it and we thought it was great I mean , I think it 's awful now , some of the things we had , I 'll have to try and find some photographs cos I 've got a case full of photographs upstairs
24 Yes I mean we had a case recently I think the son was twenty four all these perpetual students .
25 I mean we had a lot of them are run anyway on credit , there 's no real capital lying behind those businesses .
26 You know I mean we had a woman in pub ,
27 perhaps he 's been forewarned and just swapped over sides with , but I mean we had a full wind and light through then , well sort of
28 Yeah , yeah it 's a nice afternoon out , I mean we had a lovely dinner when we went did n't we , first time we went
29 By discussing reasons with the deputy I mean we had the meeting on public relations before Christmas and the scrutiny was promised and nothing 's happened erm , we still soldier on we 're not .
30 I mean we had an example from the miner 's strike but that ha was happening far away in a sense and it was just something that you could support or yo you did n't support or you put a tin of beans in the box in Quix and that was what you did you know sort of And then actually faced with having to accept food from that people had given you in a way , it 's a very quite a difficult concept .
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