Example sentences of "we [adv] had the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er that was one of Tom 's extras because I could very well remember , erm we had very little erm time off at Christmas and there was one year that erm , we just had the Christmas Day and erm erm Tom had this meeting on the Christmas Eve to decide who should erm attend the next week 's tractor course and erm , everybody was sort of feeling in the , sort of Christmas spirit and |
| 2 | I was accompanying him in the show anyway and I think we just had the nerve . ’ |
| 3 | When we finally had the showdown , he actually told me that none of them mattered . |
| 4 | I told her that we already had the tape and that she would have nothing to do but be there and play the role . |
| 5 | We already had the French and Germans with us , and we divided the remaining eighty-odd delegates between us so that on the day before the first meeting we could explain our intentions and our reasoning to as many delegates as we could find . |
| 6 | Tuesday nights we always had the place to ourselves . |
| 7 | However we still had the calling from God . |
| 8 | If we still had the death penalty they 'd be hanged , anyway . |
| 9 | We were in one piece , we still had the phetam , we had reached our destination , no other ships had emerged from lightspeed behind us , and the second half of that huge fee was almost in our hands . |
| 10 | One was the philosophic opposition of the Right-to-Life groups in this country ; and they said that this was a foot in the door , the first step down the road towards active and involuntary euthanasia , and we had that argument to counter and that group to deal with , and even after countering the argument , we still had the group to deal with . |
| 11 | This year that we ever had the party . |
| 12 | as if we did n't have enough to think about , we also had the performance of the streaker , of course . |
| 13 | But we also had the attendant holding the door for us as we came out of the changing room because the wind was threatening to tear it off its hinges , as well as relentlessly trying to move the deep end up to the shallow end . |
| 14 | PP : You had every right to retire if you wanted to , but of course we also had the right to try and persuade you not to . |
| 15 | We now had the air crews coming back from low-level sorties over France and Belgium and reporting damage they had seen to docks and military installations , and , much more upsetting , roads thronged with refugees all trying to get away from the zones of fighting . |
| 16 | Efforts to find a suitable site for the Vintage & Rotary Wing Collection , with workshops in Stoke-on-Trent , have been going on for quite a while , but the reaction has always been negative — we even had the comment that ‘ We do n't want an aircraft scrapyard here ! ’ |
| 17 | We recently had the opportunity of trying out the latest handheld transceiver in the ICOM range , the IC-A20 MkII . |
| 18 | We never had the chance to feel lonely . |
| 19 | ‘ We never had the sack . |
| 20 | I think people felt we were aiming for this point , but we never had the opportunity to do it before . |
| 21 | ‘ We never had the money for such things , ’ Nora replied . |
| 22 | Later on the same page he makes this challenging statement ‘ If any of us actually had the power to release souls from purgatory and refused to exercise that power except in return for a payment of money he would be considered cruel and unchristian — which indeed he would be . ’ |