Example sentences of "[vb base] we had [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I think if you recall we had about er three days ' notice of that did n't we ?
2 Well I just find these , I mean we had quite a few now
3 Today I mean they , I mean when you take , years and years ago when there used to be man handling everything same as timber , I mean we had about three hundred dockers then .
4 Oh I had a huge list of names really you know of erm you know we had quite big meetings where people seem to have come out of their parties their sort of sectarianism really you know which er the left is notorious for if you like if you want to use cliches .
5 I said , ‘ Sure , ’ called the guys up , they flew down from Sydney and we played and it was just like we had n't stopped doing the pubs ; it felt real good .
6 I suppose we had too much to drink at lunch .
7 ‘ Yes , I suppose we had better get on , although I 'd much rather stay here and hear what you 've been doing , and I would be interested , in spite of what you might think . ’
8 she 'd never seen anything like it , but I think we had quite a lot of new furniture did n't we ?
9 Well , I think we had much higher hopes before the Gulf crisis , I think what many people are saying now is that the peace dividend , the money that we could have saved by the end of the Cold War , will in fact , that peace dividend will be diluted by the Gulf .
10 Erm I think looking through the actual resource sheet itself , I think we had more project administration time down , and certainly that we had more technical work supervision and you put more of an emphasis on , of actually looking after the lads .
11 We had , I think we had about two ships of that , that 's all .
12 ‘ I think we had better have an explanation , ’ he said slowly .
13 ‘ I think we had better ring Wadkins , do n't you , just to check out these facts ? ’
14 ‘ I think we had better go inside for some explanations , ’ he said with a sigh .
15 ‘ I think we had better go . ’
16 I think we had better try and influence that as churches not that we should about the suffering that goes on about the death that goes on , but I think we ought to give all this another dimension in churches .
17 I felt it was a nice earner all the time and now , in hindsight , I wish we had n't frittered the money away so easily .
18 In a way I wish we had n't re-released that song because it 's not that strong .
19 After the service , Peter said , ‘ I wish we had n't slept together .
20 ‘ This is a very painful move for us , but we do n't want to wake up a year from now and wish we had n't done it , ’ Next founder Steve Jobs told United Press International .
21 ‘ Oh , I wish we had n't come ! ’ said Phyllis .
22 I wish we had n't got so many clothes on .
23 Maybe I 'm just saying I wish we had n't done the things that went wrong — old men think like that kit themselves along .
24 We wish we had n't done this as they are valuable now and we ca n't get them out ! "
25 I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite .
26 ‘ I wish we had never come back to this house .
27 It coincided with the funeral at St Paul 's Cathedral of Canon Hugh Richard Laurie Shepperd , whose life and work we had so much admired .
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