Example sentences of "and we have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a 3.15 PM start , and we 'd only played one hole when the end of the world looked as though it had come and we had to shelter in the R&A tent . |
| 2 | No Met nor Notam information was displayed , and we had to ask for the Met before filing our flight-plan to Santiago . |
| 3 | In the second half we saw little ball and we had to defend for our lives . |
| 4 | Then the show ended and we had to return to America and I thought that was that — good friends , really talented , I 'd grown to really like David 's music . |
| 5 | We particularly remember our friendly old tortoise who had a passion for toes , and we had to sit with our feet in cardboard boxes so we did n't have nibbled digits ! |
| 6 | Years ago we stored water in a big cream pot but that came to grief during a hard frost and we had to resort on one occasion to a possing tub — that is a fluted tub made from galvanized metal which was common to most households before washing machines — which , of course , had to be used for soaking the dirty clothes on washing day . |
| 7 | Annoyingly , youngsters were playing games in the lifts , and we had to resort to the stairs . |
| 8 | She 'd never seen either of us in a suit before — we were running them in , checking for labels we 'd missed and so on — and we had stood on her doorstep as if we were about to launch into the ‘ Have you heard the Good News … ’ routine . |
| 9 | Where we lived was n't much of a place — there were fourteen families in the one house and as mother 's eyes got worse , less work came in and we had to move into smaller and smaller rooms . |
| 10 | ‘ The Americans always have a tendency to bolt off the blocks , and we had to go with them . |
| 11 | That 's when the sirens went and we had to go to the shelter . |
| 12 | And we had to go to France then . |
| 13 | So , because we were in the A A he said you could have a ba , and we had to go to court , we had a summons for court , for careless driving , your dad and your dad said oh so A A said you could have barrister , or our insurers said we could have a barrister our insurers , not the one with we 're with now Norman , he was to do all the , said we could have this barrister and it was at Liverpool Crown Court and , it was n't till a , and I was alright we we just got a bit of a shock , you know , we could drive the home it was the wing and what not . |
| 14 | And we had to go from one pub to the other to look for him . |
| 15 | And we had to go in N R E fe fatigues . |
| 16 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 17 | But all the local ambulances were busy and we had to wait for one to come from Richmond , which is many miles away . |
| 18 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 19 | We needed to be persuaded of the case and we had gone through the BR figures line by line . |
| 20 | Access is restricted to permit holders and we had booked in advance . |
| 21 | We did ask his surname and he said it was too difficult , and we had to stick to Nassim . |
| 22 | The BBC decided to prune the Sunday League , and we had to share with a grand prix or a showjumping event . |
| 23 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 24 | ‘ It took us nearly ten years and we had to jump through massive hoops . |
| 25 | The building work was not complete — indeed , the kitchen was not finished until January , and we had to survive with only a gas primus stove . |
| 26 | Design manager Ian Cheetham , 30 , said calmly : ‘ It was no big deal and we had to get to a very important meeting with clients . ’ |
| 27 | The Commanding Officer presented the prizes to the victorious 2 Company team , and we had finished with ISAAC 1989 . |
| 28 | And we had finished with them . |
| 29 | When she had subsided , and we had recovered from our surprise at this outburst , we asked her whether the small and large hominids were strictly savannah species or whether they spent much of their time in forests . |
| 30 | ‘ None of us could be sure if we would have a job tomorrow ; the uncertainty was preventing us winning new business ; and we had looked at the various companies who were rumoured to be bidding for us and did n't like what we saw . ’ |