Example sentences of "we [modal v] to have [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ought to have laws which consider the animal as an animal and not just as something that we use in one of fifteen different ways . |
| 2 | Dawyck Haig 's son Alexander was much the same age as Alastair and when the two were old enough we used to have fathers ' and sons ' tennis and golf matches . |
| 3 | And we used to have school clothes just piled up there . |
| 4 | Like when we did ‘ Sackville ’ we used to have sex stuff over the end of it , so I think we 've actually played on that . ’ |
| 5 | Cos we used to have support so many cots in the children 's hospital , and we used to run concerts . |
| 6 | Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs . |
| 7 | and we used to have March |
| 8 | We used to have fun ! |
| 9 | We used to have fun , Buffy and me . |
| 10 | And we used to have skittles , and what you 'd got to do , for skittles you got to throw to knock them down , do you see ? |
| 11 | ‘ We used to have strawberry fields , but they were too much work , ’ Mrs Knelle told me . |
| 12 | We used to have dress rehearsal , some , I think I got mustard gas burns as well I was supposed to have on my arm er |
| 13 | we used to have nets and nets of oranges and we used to get up in the morning and just squeeze them |
| 14 | We used to have fogs in Darrowby , but they were country fogs , different from this . |
| 15 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 16 | like down at the erm , when I was crane driving , we used to have ships coming from Casablanca , with phosphate in and then there be a , another part there was sulphur , then they used to be erm , there 's green oar , what we used to call |
| 17 | we we used to have mole skins , mother used to buy mole skins because er they wore very well they did . |
| 18 | And of course we used to have desk infect inspections , of course we used to take that down before a desk inspection you see , this we had a surprise inspection and lifted it up and saw this and read it out , read it , Right , he said , And we 'll go God 's going to help you do something else , come out . |
| 19 | And they 'd come up and wait them but I 'd make them a cup of coffee or a cup of cocoa or something like that , there were n't coffee then cos we could n't afford coffee we used to have cocoa or make them a mug of tea . |
| 20 | There was twenty week club you see and I do n't know , I mean up until recently I was in the credit when we used to have credit . |
| 21 | Standards wha , we used to have Standards . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was a great help to me at this time that the RAF introduced a new trade into the Service — Metal Rigger — and to the horror of the old " Chippie Rigger " who fashioned the ancient wooden aircraft , and claimed " we used to have men of steel and kites of wood … sadly now the process has been reversed " . |
| 23 | Well we had slates then , I can remember we had slates and er we used to have arithmetic lessons and er history . |
| 24 | so we used to have walks sometimes along the front . |
| 25 | And that building there , the one with the green roof , that 's Ebenezer Chapel where we used to have lessons some mornings because there was n't room for us all in the school . |
| 26 | We used to have arguments , mainly over my going to church . |
| 27 | Yeah , we used to have , yeah we used to have bullocks from Bury . |
| 28 | ‘ We used to have golfing cruises , stopping en route for matches in various ports . |
| 29 | We used to have House matches at the Hurlingham track , and I remember one afternoon competing in the 100 , 200 and 400 metres and the three jumps — high , long and triple . |
| 30 | A. T. If you wanted to have a smoke — we used to have smokes : we were n't angels by any means — you had to get into a shop doorway , put your cigarette in your mouth , strike a match , shield it with your hand , and then blow the match out and then your hand would go up your sleeve . |