Example sentences of "[coord] we have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 when they wore thin on the end and we had to put a new link in we never threw the two halves of the link away , we pointed them and made them into staples .
2 The seventy strong press and media corps were in the rear of the Prime Minister 's plane and we had arranged a special area and platform for them in the terminal .
3 1976 , it may be remembered , was the year of the great drought , and we had to wait a frustrating three months until there was rain in sufficient quantity and enough water in the river to try it out .
4 So we had to go to pictures and we had to have a few or whatever .
5 We were on Egleton Reserve , the lagoon area of the Rutland Water Nature Reserve , and we had spent a blustery March morning wielding bill hooks to create 3-foot long sticks from coppiced pussy willow branches .
6 ‘ But we were producing so much effluent it flooded and we had to rent a small piece of land specifically for effluent disposal , ’ explained Dai .
7 I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour .
8 Nick had tried to get his US Tour card that year and we 'd played a few times in America .
9 And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there .
10 and we 'd got a little old fellow with us , you know , well built very not very big but broad as what he was long .
11 And after I 'd explained , and we 'd laughed a good deal , and taken off each others ’ wet clothes , it was .
12 We can make in our favour or we can easily make six thousand crackers favours and we 've made a thousand .
13 I arrive at the venue to find that it has been changed at a whim to another hotel across the road ( ’ It 's much cooler and we 've got a cosy corner in the lounge , ’ the PR man assures me ) .
14 If I 'd not blocked or she 'd not blocked out that time in that way , what would have happened is on the thirteenth , er , of the month , erm , Red would have called me from the Health and Safety Executive would have called me and said , Ricky we 've got er , a remedial leadership weekend on the top of Snowden , and er , on that , on the last weekend of the month , and we 've got a one hour slot for you , that 's just a golden opportunity .
15 ‘ It 's just a practical , a practical , a practical thing , a thing of sort of , well , here we are , we 've got into this place , and we 've got a certain , a certain , a , a , a certain job to do .
16 And we 've got a new source of burnable material to replace the hedge trimmings : lots of things are delivered on pallets , wooden pallets , not all of which are returnable .
17 And they accept us for what we are and we 've got a good erm relationship with the the people w who are left in er the flat complex .
18 ‘ We have two sons and we 've got a future but our lives will be different because we were five .
19 And we 've got a nice quiet legislative programme next year , now the cabinet has shelved the idea of privatising the post office , which had all our sub-postmasters up in arms .
20 Right , we 've got a thousand and we 've got a hundred times Y , hundred times seventeen , okay .
21 We 've only got to put a go faster stripe on a Skoda and chan , change the wheels and we 've got a different product we 've got a diff , yes , we 've got a fast skip as opposed to a slow one , alright .
22 And we 've got a further problem if Iraq is effectively destroyed as a functioning state .
23 Emlyn Hughes International Soccer is the best footie game ever released on the Commodore , and we 've got a special version of it just for you !
24 And we 've got a little chart here which I shall go through .
25 Well not really we 've got one , and we 've got a big multi- storey car park .
26 It 's all we need and we 've got a fucking sto oh here we go .
27 so it 's not two in a row yeah , we went right , er we 've been right round looking at all shops this week and we 've had a right bloody go have n't we Alec ?
28 And we 've had a great deal of helpful cooperation and it 's very much erm going right into the schools , right into the whole system of government and control of the schools , erm and I think again is going to produce some very interesting results before too long .
29 Thirdly , we 're trying to make sure that children who can best benefit by foster care , er do get foster parents , and we 've had a big er initiative this last twelve months , you probably know about , and that 's paying off , and we hope in the future only children going into residential homes who need residential care will get there .
30 I 've been out on the on the streets and the roads and we 've had a few beers and I 've not seen any trouble but the first I 've heard of trouble was was this morning after breakfast in a nearby hotel and and by by the trouble that 's been caused I do n't know the details of it but I believe it 's been quite intense really .
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