Example sentences of "[subord] we have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've been in this situation before , where we 've needed a good result away from home only to lose 1–0 , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Commitment to the community continued through our support of the performing arts , most recently through involvement with the Royal National Theatre in the UK , where we have sponsored a European Tour and a number of other initiatives . |
| 3 | Although we 've advanced a great deal in the last fifty years , we still have a way to go and our self esteem is lower than men . |
| 4 | I 'm afraid so , I mean a lot of these things , you can have a basic idea , and then your flowers do n't turn up at the markets and all them sort of things , although we 've got a wonderful garden and I 've got quite a lot I can use . |
| 5 | I 'm sorry to see that although we 've got a large increase in budget , which is of course always very welcome , that we have n't perhaps addressed improving the quality er as much as we might have done , although we 've got a lot more home help hours that may be classed as an improvement , but er there are many other areas where we could perhaps encourage improvement in community care er with a bit of thought . |
| 6 | We had very little experience in clothing design at that stage , although we had run a small experiment with Habitat called Clothes Line . |
| 7 | The way the vehicle was hit , there was one person in the back so we had to do a 3-door conversion and made a 2-door car into a 3 , so it took longer . |
| 8 | Said Mr Costain : ‘ We would have liked to build a replacement with a wooden verandah and steps , but it ca n't be done in this day and age , so we had to build a concrete one like Fort Knox . ’ |
| 9 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 10 | Let's come back to it then , so we 've agreed a basic heading , although we need to play with that a bit , name , year tick indicates end of end of key stage |
| 11 | . And look at that , interpret it , think oh well , the distance is increasing only fairly gradually as time goes on , but when it gets to there , the distance is increasing at a constant rate , as time goes on , so we 've got a constant speed . |
| 12 | But my grandparents had worked at Drogo since it was built , so we 've had a long link with the Drewes ; the family put in a word for me so I got the job . |
| 13 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 14 | Once we have created a great bureaucracy , it will be there forever . |
| 15 | Cos we 've got a hundred percent hundred percent increase in volume |
| 16 | Cos we need to cos we need to sort of all hands to the pump next week cos we 've got a big change-over Yeah but I know ink well no cos the leaflet he 's got has only just been approved and it 's going out next week yeah well I mean you 're to ha you 're to handle their enquiries er deal with their enquiries and then tell them to phone yeah yeah yeah but you see it 's the mailing that 's gone out and and then he 's got to do some advertising first two weeks in Feb . |
| 17 | Erm it is admitted that people are gon na have go much further to get their treatment ah , that was quite clearly stated as part of the the down side of it , and I do n't think we can tolerate that until we 've got a decent public transport system that 's going to allow patients to get by public transport from here to Colchester or Witham or Clacton or wherever and er and their , their relatives and friends to be able to follow to visit them if you know , as necessary . |
| 18 | . Right I do n't think we 'll try and get fancy , like Boot Com and Boot Sys , until we 've had a good play with Windows . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , Fred , it looks like we 've got a slight delay as a pitbull strays on to the pitch ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Well , looks like we 've had a wasted trip , ’ he said with patently false bonhomie . |
| 21 | If we had to cite a bad point , it would be the hard-to-reach drain plug on the rear axle housing . |
| 22 | Er secondly , land could be allocated to meet a range of needs in a variety of locations and after monitoring , if we had met a certain level of job targets , those jobs may be on a limited number of sites . |
| 23 | ‘ If we had lost a single segment everyone could have been killed , ’ Mackenzie says . |
| 24 | Will he confirm that if we had adopted a scatter-gun approach to benefits , as the Labour Government did , the substantial improvements in help for the disabled since 1979 would not have been possible ? |
| 25 | If we had proposed a separate profile component for knowledge about language , it might have been seen as having a weight ( in terms of content , teaching time and assessment ) which was disproportionate in relation to the English curriculum as a whole . |
| 26 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 27 | Cos I did n't know how we 'd of managed if we 'd had a big one ! |
| 28 | Our own particular case is our case went to the High Court some three hundred thousand pounds , when perhaps if we 'd had a dedicated pensions act setting out what could and could not be done , that would never have happened . |
| 29 | And I suppose if we 'd got a clean sheet , and we started again , we 'd do it differently . |
| 30 | ‘ They 're not snooty and they take us down the pub for a drink if we 've done a good job . ’ |