Example sentences of "[subord] we have [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many refugees come to see the medical doctor or the nurse not because they are really physically ill but because of emotional tensions — headaches and unidentified pains , So we have decided to prepare a number of simple pamphlets on mental health and related problems . |
| 2 | Once we 'd decided to have a baby we had had to find a Father . |
| 3 | If we , if we had targeted making a profit of say five hundred and sixty five thousand pounds just for instance |
| 4 | My own attempts in the following paragraphs may well demonstrate the difficulties facing us if we had tried to write a short response to all the great present-day debates in polytechnics and universities about the status of literature . |
| 5 | Signaller Chris Lodey of Darlington said : ‘ It 's not been too tiring because we 've managed to get a bit of rest . |
| 6 | We must move on , because we 've got to have a commercial break , and then we want to check on the traffic . |
| 7 | But seriously , why do you suppose there has been so little said about Sunday trading in the book trade ? could it be because we have failed to make a ‘ cold , calculating examination of the long term balance of financial advantage ’ ? |
| 8 | But since we have failed to produce a clear notion of context , what we include in context is likely to be whatever we exclude from semantics in the way of meaning relations . |
| 9 | There are occasions when we have grudged paying a top rate , but been too cowardly to refuse . |
| 10 | Again , I can not remember what we had to eat , though we had tried to obtain a suitable cheese ; but it was during the meal that Eliot uttered one of the most Eliotic of his remarks . |
| 11 | We want the turnover we want the the input and and then er having succeeded hopefully by year three when we 've er as we 've maintained making a profit we will then look at some of the marginal sales as we would call them to er some of the smaller people . |
| 12 | I struggled on for a while , but I know my limitations when it comes to design , especially as we have grown to expect a high standard in QP . |
| 13 | Percy Lubbock , at the end of The Craft of Fiction , acknowledged that as soon as we have finished reading a novel we begin to forget it , and what is left to talk about is a vague cloud of fading impressions : ‘ the book vanishes as we lay hands on it . ’ |