Example sentences of "and we have a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Their approach was just to stick out the records , but more thought went into later releases and we had a structure where the label was treated with more importance .
2 and we had a conversation about it
3 I set off and we had a taxi because it was terrible and I thought oh well , we had a lovely weekend , I 'm not going to er spoil it by being soaking wet getting to Piccadilly station .
4 And we had a neighbour named and he 'd worked at E T N S all his life and had some influence and I mentioned it to him and he asked me , asked me if he could find me a job .
5 Most people on a very windy day , and we had a couple you know in the winter there did n't we , and storms wind storms , and there are n't many people who say , you know in the middle of that storm , oh I feel quite comfortable , I 'm quite happy with this .
6 and we had a couple Mark 's had them , I sa , but they wanted fourteen ninety nine .
7 Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record .
8 I can show you now erm what I bought with my divi and we had a speaker at the Guild er on stainless steel and er he , wh you know when they asked questions you said well how do we , how do we clean it ?
9 Do you remember Joan , I think you were doing it , and we had a limerick , years , some years ago , we had a limerick , I think Joan was doing it .
10 and we had a look over that temple , it was the Abdul Sindal temples .
11 And we had a biscuit
12 In the fourth year I was lucky enough to be able to go to Kenya and find out what life was like in a hospital there and we had a missionary from my church that was a teacher in Kenya with the African Inland Mission and I went to , really I was nursing erm and helping out there .
13 She gave me a cup of French coffee and we had a chat . ’
14 I enjoyed the work there — dealing with customers on the phone — there were two of us girls … the other girl was in charge and we had a man over us , but it was between us two … we had to get all the statements out at the end of the month …
15 Erm right the Yorkshire Aquarist Festival we had a coach two ninety three pound on the coach and a raffle a hundred and six pound erm on the inter-club we had a fourteen pound twenty five entry and we had a raffle , twenty nine twenty five , making forty three pound fifty .
16 We carried only suitcases and clothes and we had a case with our jewellery and the registry deeds to our lands inside .
17 Daddy was there and we had a drink .
18 ‘ 1976 was a heat wave in England and we had a basset hound called Hector with big ears and a droopy face .
19 Our barrack room was warm and we had a stove in the middle which kept us warm in the night .
20 We were just drunk as usual , but everybody was arguing with each other and it came to a head and we had a fight .
21 After a while so to , to relieve the boredom we used to throw orange peel at each other , little bits you know , screw it up and , and one hit this bloke who was made foreman before , before he was made foreman a and we had a fight .
22 And the wind got up in the night and pretty strong and we had a hut a twenty by twenty five foot fourteen eighteen war hut in the middle of a square and there was a shop and a storeroom besides .
23 er well last year we brought the Dutch over and we had a competition with them .
24 No cos they bent round and we had a tie , we did but it was only a little bannister you know , we tried it
25 Well Margaret guided us to ruddy Conway in er , anyway , we got there and we had a bit of a bar snack did n't we ?
26 and we had a bit of both .
27 She asked if she could rub my head and we had a dance . ’
28 ‘ When he was vice-president , I met him at a stage dinner when the Reagans were in the White House and we had a dance and we talked about playing tennis .
29 And we had a ball fighting …
30 And we had about three boards in here and we had a board in there .
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