Example sentences of "[adv] we 've [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm quite looking forward to it though naturally we 've had a few of the old arguments about it .
2 Obviously we 've taken a close look at Oddbins , ’ says Ann Tonk , standing in Victoria Wine 's smartly re-fitted ‘ Family Group 1 ’ store in London 's Hampstead High Street .
3 So we 've arranged a second appointment he knows we 're gon na come back what could , what should we be asking for at this point ?
4 But over the last year or so we 've developed a solid state equivalent , which has no moving parts at all .
5 On food control , the level of food hygiene inspections at seven hundred and thirty we 've achieved by buying in consultants to do some work for us in our priority area , and we 're were able to do that with Derek Welk 's retirement , leaving us with some unspent staff , and so we 've achieved a higher figure there than we expected we would do .
6 So we 've got a little time left .
7 So we 've got a spare one .
8 So we 've got a thousand
9 Yeah we had a twenty pound discount so we 've got a hundred
10 So we 've got a whole heap , as it were
11 Well that 's the problem , lets pull this together we 've had a good grumble about telephones and mail system now
12 But anyway we 've got a tight we 've got a tight time scale .
13 And so far we 've got a happy ending .
14 But now we 've taken a short cut through the getting-to-know-you games .
15 Erm , I think the charge that has been laid against myself personally and my myself and my colleagues is the charge of vacillation and changing our mind and I and I am grateful to c my colleague David for reminding us that we have in this county had two years two years when the Labour party and the Conservative party have been hand in glove , absolutely determined that the way forward in relation to homes , elderly persons homes , not that 's not to close any and now we 've had a complete volte face when they 've changed their minds and they 've come along with us .
16 And now we 've found a fine warren and got into it without even having to fight , you 've got to do your best to upset everyone !
17 Because now we 've got a binary network we can do different things .
18 Now we 've got a good long a session and hour and a quarter and tea afterwards .
19 But now we 've got a new breed of black sportsmen .
20 ‘ So now we 've got a double whammy : the firms ' short-term needs are less and there is arguably plenty of provision for those needs from the ranks of newly qualified members who , as students , went into training contracts in 1987 , 1988 and 1989 . ’
21 So Christopher said yes , so he said well he said , he said Mark said well we 've done a good job this afternoon so I thought that was nice of him
22 No , well we 've done a little bit .
23 Well we 've had a eighteen month old .
24 Well we 've had a little
25 Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top
26 I would agree er , that it 's strange er once you start something , I mean people come up and say well we 've got a whole information bank here and other people have a whole information bank there and yet the ability of people who are caring , for adults or children , to get out , run round forty agencies and come home loaded with leaflets , pushing three children and a parent , you know is is quite difficult !
27 Yeah well we 've got a little antique box a jewellery box and it 's embossed the pattern round it , and the pattern round it is a boar hunt and it 's beautiful , there 's a little boar galloping his heart out with horsemen after him with spears and he 's all the way round the box and I thought of adding him on to the copper kettle you know as engraved all round the outside .
28 Well we 've got a little camel ai n't we ?
29 Well we 've got a few details of some drop in centres this afternoon .
30 Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't .
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