Example sentences of "[noun pl] we had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We checked my symptoms in some of the six or so books we had on the subject of birth , but none of them matched up with what I was feeling . |
| 2 | It is impossible to describe all the uplifting and thought-provoking sessions we had at the Farm , but an especially wonderful experience for me was the fantasy meditation . |
| 3 | You know coming from seventy to hundred a sixty five in fact when had their sales meeting last Friday it was observed that the sales force in the er which were gathered which we do every two months in the in the major suite the training suite er conference suite at head office er that was the total number of sales execs we had in January the previous year . |
| 4 | Then , I do n't know how many years we had down the street , but we moved when I was about six years old up the street near the church . |
| 5 | I piled the kids and what few possessions we had into the pram and , balancing the baby bath on the hood , walked the few miles back to my Pop 's house . |
| 6 | The brave heresies which were uttered then , the great plans we had for Britain , our determination to allow people to keep a fair proportion of what they have worked for and won : must these noble hopes perish so soon ? |
| 7 | I ca nt remember how many headers we had throughout the night which just did nt have the power , and hence slid harmlessly past either post . |
| 8 | She picked up another letter , and again read aloud : ‘ I think of you often and of the happy times we had at The Hall , and they were happy times . |
| 9 | That a man so well known in educational circles should be so ill-informed demonstrates the problems we had in helping our readers to understand our proposals . |
| 10 | Then the infant school the first class of the infants we had in a hut on Netteswell Road and then we went , they came from that hut there to the servant 's quarters of Mark Hall . |
| 11 | Erm , one of the things we had on the stall is erm this erm application form for N H S charges , now many people including probably people here do n't know that erm , you do n't have to be on supplementary to get help and Ann knows actually , er if your getting any rent or rate rebate and you fill this in , you 'll get some help , in some cases quite considerable help , and I suggested that we had some of these on our store room , got some from Welfare Rights , and they went like hot cakes , because most people did n't know about this , so following that we shall have , we shall keep these on our stall and I 've more or less suggested that Lisa on Age Concern in the Leah Manning should have them there because she 's constantly getting enquiries on that , so she is going to do that . |
| 12 | It 's very interesting that the only way in which one tory hand went up in support in community services committee for any of the things we had before us and I can only worry , was only because the . |
| 13 | Identifying trainees is all about finding out who needs to be trained and what they need to know and if you remember one of ject objectives we had for the course is , was to , so that by the end of the course you will actually develop a system by identifying the trainees because this is sort of hit or miss . |
| 14 | " When you think of the relations we had with the most countries , " said the Queen later , " and suddenly they do n't care to talk to you , or write to you , ask you to come and stay in their country … |
| 15 | ‘ That was what he was good at but at the time we did n't consider him any better than players we had at the club . |
| 16 | ‘ That was what he was good at but at the time we did n't consider him any better than players we had at the club . |
| 17 | ‘ The first group of children we had in this morning had to be dragged out , ’ she said . |
| 18 | I never did think they were primitive and they always told the truth ( except when they were teaching me the language ) and were a damn sight more trustworthy than some of the white men we had on the job . |
| 19 | Waving to one side the 15–20- per cent changes in protein synthesis rates and enzyme activity I had reported , Francis Crick was explicit on this point at a Royal Society discussion meeting in London in 1977 when I presented the results we had by then obtained on imprinting in the chick and the effects of first exposure to light in the rat . |
| 20 | We keep up standards by running training awards for Upholstery and Soft Furnishing trainees , these trainees are our future craftsmen and women and we are doing all we can to ‘ uphold ’ the same standards we had in the past and maintain them into the future . |
| 21 | This interview came out of several inspirational talks we had in June and was highlighted by his brilliant summer lecture to the Art and Architecture Society . |
| 22 | In practice those doubts melt away when you realize just what drugs we had in mind . |
| 23 | I 'd like to go into a little more the composition of the net debt which again is something that er interests some of you we have er a reduction both on gross debt and equally an increase in cash as you would expect as a result of the Elsivir sale the increases are not fixed debt fixed term fixed rate debt is a function again of the exchange rate we have n't in issued any more the whole of the reduction of debt therefore is confined to our floating rate or variable debt and that amount 's ready to the repayment of the gilder drawings we had under our to hedge or partially to hedge our holding in Elsivir We have increased our cash holdings and they remain concentrated in sterling as part of our sterling er asset er portfolio which is managed from Millbank and which we regard as our investable funds as and when needed . |
| 24 | ‘ If we had stuck away some of the chances we had in the first half then we 'd have won it . ’ |
| 25 | Oh we had it was the Airleys we had at that time . |
| 26 | Therefore although the interest charge is well down , profit before tax was down sixteen percent , it 's down sixteen percent er because of course the old extraordinaries , the extraordinaries we had below the line in ninety one the eight million you see net profit on disposals are back above the line in under F R S Three , that 's the Elsevere profit less the Smith Var losses very broadly speaking . |