Example sentences of "we [verb] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The food we eat has a significant effect upon our mental agility . |
2 | Nutritionists and doctors agree that the food we eat has an enormous amount to do with the way we look and feel . |
3 | Planning , or at least mental preparation , is needed for this transition , whether we intend to have an active retirement , or just ‘ sit and do nothing ’ . |
4 | So we we we tend to have a different sort of , probably if you 'd , if you ask that question differently you would get a different percentage . |
5 | And I 'm sorry we appear to have a little bit of a problem with that tape , we have the wrong tape . |
6 | More obviously , in ( 7 ) , we appear to have an inside view of Mrs Moreen : " When Mrs Moreen bethought herself of this pretext … " . |
7 | We expect to have an important debate tomorrow afternoon on the 20 per cent . |
8 | We want to have a new South Africa . |
9 | The small shop area has to be completed and we hope to have a full range of items for sale in the near future . |
10 | But in our society the self-denial of which we speak has a moral dimension which is not strongly recognised in all civilisations . |
11 | Then came more accidents — we seemed to have a large number of accidents in the 1950s and early 1960s and many of them finished up as public inquiries . |
12 | It certainly contributed in a more direct manner in that most of the food we ate had a high carbohydrate content and , although I was unaware of it at the time , I put on a lot of weight . |
13 | ‘ After we 'd had a nice dinner together , we 'd go into Richard 's studio and we 'd put on music . |
14 | So anyway we 'd had a good look round and this ch church warden said hey you 'd better go and get some seats cos it 's going to get . |
15 | Erm , on appendix B , erm there is an item which erm members of the committee erm will know about very well it 's the laboratory services that we give and have a great relate to them , erm the item goes under seven I believe , the figures there have dropped , is that because we 'd had a successful income erm there , we 've got a hundred and ten thousand for both up ninety two and ninety three and ninety , sorry ninety two three and ninety three ninety four , is it that er , could we know or are we estimating that we 're going to get a nice income because we have been told in earlier reports that this is quite a good slice of income to us and those figures are amended accordingly is that right ? |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Although we we 'd had a modest week in terms of routes , we 'd found enough delight and challenge in the sunlit silence of the valley and the peaks — and now we knew the full potential of the place . |
18 | We 'd had a little car before he got there . |
19 | We 'd had a huge rally of 10,000 people for Ronald Reagan at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and I was flying on to Los Angeles with one of the co-ordinators the next morning . |
20 | We seem to have a labour party that treats education as some kind of middle class hobby that thinks of education spending as something spent only on the bourgeoisie , something to do with a university , something not really important for ordinary people . |
21 | But looking back , we seem to have a selective memory for the best bits of the past . |
22 | She sighed happily , then went on , ‘ We seem to have a prospective buyer and Liz is making frantic signals to me , so I 'd better go . |
23 | We seem to have a tremendous lot of seagulls do n't we ? |
24 | We seem to have a good time whenever we 're out and always have something to talk about , which is really great . |
25 | So in spite of it being a mid-turn switch , in this case we seem to have a different type of switch from the one in ( 6 ) , for the other parties to the conversation respond differently to it . |
26 | Now if our assets if by promoting the right to buy , by having capital receipts we seem to have a large balance building up , there is the distinct risk given the sort of policies that this government has pursued over time of a we will be running a risk there , we do n't know what they 're going to do , you do n't know what they 're going to do . |
27 | This demonstration illustrates a characteristic ambivalence of point of view in James 's writing : although one character is evidently the " centre of consciousness " , there are times when we seem to have an outside view of 110 him , or an inside view of another character . |
28 | Are we going to have a global oil convention for sustainable global production , management and conservation of oil ? " |
29 | Are we going to have a Chinese meal tonight ? |
30 | The Conservatives believe that the government 's role is to ensure that we continue to have a good foundation of basic and strategic science on which industry can draw , to encourage a good supply of up-to-date and creative scientists , and to encourage the right climate for successful innovation . |