Example sentences of "we [adv] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 2 | It was our bad luck that those chances should fall to him before we eventually had to bring him off . ’ |
| 3 | … they brought their homework in and made a list of … aspects like their use of materials , time , care , etc … so they knew what I was looking for , and then I spoke to each child individually and asked ‘ What would you give this piece out of ten ’ and so we obviously had to define our assessment objectives . |
| 4 | We did all the paperwork with her in the shop ; we obviously had crossed wires after that . ’ |
| 5 | We only had to watch the ladies final at Telford at the end of last year to see how bad our tennis has become . |
| 6 | So we 've er we felt that was we only had to cope with if the worst came to the worst . |
| 7 | We only had to wait for five minutes for the first boooooom … and a second … and a third . |
| 8 | ‘ Bernard had always wanted a Swiss Buser and as we only had to pay £1,500 for it he was very impatient to see it work , like a small boy with a new toy . |
| 9 | We only had to pay 150,000 Belgian francs , £3,000 . |
| 10 | So if we only had started off with a half of it |
| 11 | We looked , and though we never said so , we believed that we alone had seen these things , that they had never been seen before . |
| 12 | Whenever a new manager was brought in to take charge of them , they refused to co-operate : in the end we just had to take the porters on . ’ |
| 13 | I mean we 're not allowed as many holidays as , as most of them , but then again it was starting up so we just had to take it that way . |
| 14 | In the end , despite our efforts and those of friends , we just had to go . |
| 15 | We just had to go up and see him and |
| 16 | Well it 's a big pile and we just had to go |
| 17 | We just had to sit there and ride through the flak . |
| 18 | We just had to sit there all day on our own , and I was in for a couple of weeks . |
| 19 | And we just had to leave it . |
| 20 | So we just had to pop down to the Castle in Chiddingstone for a pint or two . |
| 21 | Well , we know the tomato splats have already gone mouldy on Comic Relief , but we had so many pictures and stories sent in we just had to squeeze out another page . |
| 22 | We just had to stop half way . |
| 23 | ‘ In the second half , we just had to hang in there . ’ |
| 24 | We just had to cope with it as best we could . |
| 25 | So we just had to accept he was right all along ! |
| 26 | We just had to make twenty one . |
| 27 | ‘ At times , we lost faith in our fellow man , and we just had to come here . |
| 28 | So , for many years , we just had to learn to live with it and all our bitches were walked individually . |
| 29 | We discovered the beautiful scenery is not the only attraction of Monte Maggiore , and when we found the Residence Elena we felt , at once , that we just had to add it to our selection . |
| 30 | When talking about grief a frequent comment is , ‘ We never used to have this sort of fuss made in the good old days : we just had to get on with it ! ’ |