Example sentences of "we [vb base] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , we seem to have put a spoke in Fouché 's wheel this time , with some assistance from Fedorov and the Grand Army . ’ |
| 2 | We seem to have solved a couple of murders , but espionage is a job for specialists . |
| 3 | Somewhere along the way we seem to have got a lot of wires crossed . ’ |
| 4 | Now the economic circumstances of unemployed people we know have changed a lot . |
| 5 | We do have to take a leaf , a little bit out of Kenzie 's book from the n the late nineteen thirties and afterwards , that when things are receding , you do n't batten down the hatches , you do n't simply close things in . |
| 6 | " We do have to have a guarantor , " he remarked , as much to himself , and said , " Very well , you said your brother would be back in a month ? |
| 7 | And we do have to have a meeting of an annual meeting of the council to elect your officers . |
| 8 | Clearly the riots and the er secrecy that the Home Office tried to surround those riots with , er show that we do have to have an ombudsman . |
| 9 | what other departments feel to your to your people , because wha , you do have to be careful about the indoctrination , this is what I believe so it 's right , we 've got ta we do have to strike a balance . |
| 10 | Christianity in the contemporary world in which we live has become a matter of private belief and personal preference in a society that tolerates any old religious beliefs ( and new ones ) so long as they do not interfere with the running of the machine . |
| 11 | We are going through enormous changes in the education system at the moment and as Governors we have had to struggle terribly hard to learn how to govern schools as more power and more authority has been devolved to us , and we should have been spending this year erm working together on learning how to run a more successful school , and instead erm we 've had to waste a hell of a lot of time on really what was an absolute political nonsense and irrelevance , and I am glad we can turn aside from that . |
| 12 | The response is coming through slowly , but we 've had to take a lot of initiatives on our own and we are hoping that others will come and support and back these initiatives . |
| 13 | So we 've had to do a lot of work ourselves , including researching carefully that we are doing something worthwhile . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We 've had to strike a balance between offering people what they liked with the first movie but coming up with something fresh . |
| 15 | Because the schools are up to 65 miles away , we have had to give a lot of thought to the development of distance learning materials . |
| 16 | In a secular society , where death no longer holds out hope of an after-life and heaven , the quality of the life we know we have has assumed an importance previously given to the life of the soul . |