Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] have a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's covered with dust and the road 's dry underneath , although we 've had a lot of rain . ’
2 said the doctor , ‘ that we 've had a bunch of Curdle blooms ever since 1915 ? ’
3 ‘ Another thing that we 've had a lot of use from was the baby bouncer ; it 's the type that hangs on the door frame .
4 Safety does come cost and and here in Notts that we 've had a safety policy .
5 This is n't the first time that we 've had a fire in the school and it is n't the first time that we 've solved the problem quickly , and we 'll have more again .
6 Well I suppose at the , one of the best things , best examples of the difference was that my wife when she saw this house , knew that it was a house in which she could be happy , in which her tastes and , could spread themselves , erm rather than her tastes having to be curtailed by lack of space and lack of accommodation , erm , the fact that I had a garage which was essential er next to my house instead of some er quarter or twenty minutes ' walk away from where I lived as happened in London also made a terrific difference to comfort , erm the fact that there was a garden instead of a few windowboxes and a couple of tubs , all these things I think made one appreciate the fact that you 'd come , not only into a new town , but into a new way of life probably the fact that we had a staircase inside the house , which was the first time that we 'd had a staircase between our bedrooms and our living rooms
7 Erm , I think probably I would support the recommendation as it stands because I do think that we need to have a trial to see if the end performance , and I very very much support the idea of the end performance , er in district .
8 My own belief is that we have had a sea change in the nature of employment in Britain and in other western societies .
9 Yes I 'm I 'm not quite sure the regulations are about subsids We , I mean we , it 's only quite recently that we have had a subsidiary , erm , last two or three years , we 've , for many years we did n't have one .
10 I remind the House that we have had a debate on rights , freedoms and responsibilities for many years .
11 What I hope to have shown , which is consistent with a certain tentativeness about what has been said , and with incompleteness , is that we do have a grasp of both dependent and independent conditionals , which grasp can be clarified and which gives to us an explicit understanding of the seven causal connections that were set out .
12 products and I think we all agree that we do have a responsibility to protect children .
13 What that refers to is that we do have a contract with the fire service college and we are satisfied with the resources we are committing to training at the moment and should any more be necessary at any time we will bring that back to members .
14 Can we just mention there that we did have a problem at the weekend with the paper banks again .
15 The day dawned misty and drizzly so we went to have a look , confident heroics would not be called for .
16 This get-up 'll be quite smart , once we 've had a go at it . ’
17 Well initially we we 're we 're going to we 're going to go nationally but very quickly we 're gon na see where erm our strengths and weaknesses are erm and we know already where the erm the large market is and once we 've had a couple of T V spots to make it known nationally erm in the end of course we 're gon na have to erm probably concentrate on those areas which erm er which 'll give us the best return .
18 ‘ I would have driven myself except we 've had a party of Australians land on us looking for accommodation on the off-chance .
19 I would imagine the plaster wall have to be replaced cos there 's a lot of work that needs to be done on t we 've already had to deal with the plastering once , in fact we would n't have noticed cos we had n't seen it before but what happened is that the the frame of the hall particularly shrank so that we had gaps in between where the plastering was and where the wood was and we had to have a couple of men that we used for this , erm come in with lime plaster and fill in all the cracks for a week or two .
20 Anyway , forty six and then we had no house , at all , because my mother had died and my father , we said to my father you leave if you want to we should be alright we 'll find somewhere to go and we did n't and we had to have a Nissan hut for about a year , supplied by the Council
21 took me a lot of years before I could and I was so pleased when once I was able to say to you I 've Ben had been in the shop and we 'd had a chat had n't we ?
22 one and we 'd had a chat for a long , long time and I said to him afterwards , I was able to understand everything he said !
23 Once I 've met everyone and we 've had a chance to get to know one another , they 'll see no reason to continue this quarrel . ’
24 Right , thank you , erm , now Ross is n't , is there anything further on the thir , last year was the thirtieth anniversary of Amnesty 's foundation in nineteen sixty one and we 've had a campaign and that , and that still sort of running is there anything more on that ?
25 ‘ I doubt it , ’ muses Carl , ‘ but I admit we 've been lucky and we 've had a lot of coverage .
26 ‘ I doubt it , ’ muses Carl , ‘ but I admit we 've been lucky and we 've had a lot of coverage .
27 Earlier this year we won an award in Bourdeux and we 've had a lot of interest .
28 ‘ It may happen anyway — Portsmouth are good enough to get promotion this year and we 've had a number of really impressive wins . ’
29 He was going to leave anyway and we 've had a succession of drummers really because he did n't play on the first single .
30 In pr proof terms Chairman , we want to have a go at the District Health Authority and we want to have a go at the Regional Health Authority .
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