Example sentences of "we can have " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can have the room you chose at the beginning of the week . ’ |
| 2 | This is one of the things that philosophers mean when they say that our mental representations are ‘ opaque ’ : thoughts are ( necessarily partial ) representations of reality and therefore we can have one thought about a referent without having any access to another ( ‘ lover ’ / ‘ mother ’ ) . |
| 3 | We can have , then , an analogy between the natural languages that we think in ( English , Swahili … ) and the programming language , on the one hand , and the machine code and our ‘ language of thought ’ , on the other hand . |
| 4 | Sid had chosen a spot at the top of the orchard a few yards from the wall surrounding Brigade H.Q ‘ We can have two trenches with one entrance , ’ he said , ‘ Your trench there , and my trench here , ’ drawing a diagram with the point of his bayonet . |
| 5 | If we can go ashore we can have coffee and Tony and I can put on our anoraks . |
| 6 | She 's probably heating up the mince pies so we can have them hot when we 're sitting on the floor in front of the Christmas tree trying to guess what the wrapped up prezzies are . |
| 7 | We 've done our duty so we can have a little treat . ’ |
| 8 | Then we can have the party . ’ |
| 9 | She has to go into very strict training for the week before , and a week on Saturday means we can have the party on the evening after the Championship . ’ |
| 10 | We can have ideas of things we have not experienced . |
| 11 | Similarly , although anything that exists is particular and individual , we can have general ideas . |
| 12 | We have already seen some such things in the area of natural philosophy , things of which , ‘ by the natural use of our faculties , we can have no knowledge at all ’ . |
| 13 | According to this , we can have , for example , an idea of colour alone and as such , an idea abstracted from any thought of particular extended things with their particular colours . |
| 14 | It is ‘ manifestly impossible there should be any such idea ’ , for we can have no sensory experience of spirits . |
| 15 | His reply is that we have no idea of material substance because matter is an impossibility and could not exist ; whereas , though we can have no sensory idea of spiritual substance , minds are not an impossibility and could exist . |
| 16 | He 's invited us over to his place for the circus and if we like it we can have one here . |
| 17 | ‘ We can have a paddle , ’ somebody said . |
| 18 | The fact that we can have Deee-Lite at number one and they ca n't get anywhere in America . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We can have the Jheri-Curls chasin' us all the time tryin' to cut our hair and throw chemicals in it ! ’ |
| 20 | A woodwind solo may be as important to the musical drama as a vocal entry , but we can have both . |
| 21 | I think we can have too much of the critics ! |
| 22 | ‘ It is a simple case of jealousy , ’ Mrs Browning said quietly , ‘ and we can have nothing to do with it . |
| 23 | We can have that when we get to where we 're going . |
| 24 | It means we can have a real race now , ’ said Mr Taylor . |
| 25 | ‘ Now we can have a look at the KW , ’ he said , marching off again . |
| 26 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 27 | If we have no intimate relationship with God , then we can have no true intimacy within marriage either . |
| 28 | How can we possibly retain that self-reliance and confidence if we become more and more a nation of programmed consumers , stuffed with the produce of an automated technology over which we feel we can have little influence ? |
| 29 | But now we can have one painted . |
| 30 | For example , if we extend the pattern to two dimensions then , again , just using cells that can become blue , white , or red , we can have a French flag , or a Stars and Stripes , or the Union jack . |