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Example sentences of "we have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	So you see we , we 've got a three-tier movement you know , throughout the , throughout the country .
2	And the guy driving the truck says , no we ca n't we 've got an important meeting .
3	really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ?
4	‘ We were all aware we 'd made a total cock-up .
5	The national spotlight was on us — and it appeared to most of us that we 'd missed an open goal .
6	It was late in the afternoon now , later than I thought it would be , and shadows were long on the grass before us , so that by the time we 'd travelled the leafy lane to Flanders Hall and had followed the road past the Grange to West Burton village green , it was early evening .
7	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 .
8	As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job .
9	Then he kissed me , and for a moment I remembered a play we were in together , when we 'd done the same sort of kiss , starting with his hand under my chin and just our lips lightly together , and then developing into a full clinch ; but by the time we were deeply embraced I had forgotten the play and could think only that this was like coming home .
10	‘ We 'd hired a camper van to get around ’ , Nigel explains .
11	‘ We 'd hired a camper van to get around , ’ Nigel explains .
12	Joe did n't speak again until we 'd finished the second stage .
13	‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’
14	We 'd got a good relationship with the council . ’
15	I thought we 'd got a good team .
16	And I suppose if we 'd got a clean sheet , and we started again , we 'd do it differently .
17	He told us we 'd got a yellow streak a yard wide down our backs .
18	I mean , if I were to sell my house now supposing somebody came galloping in along before Christmas ooh ooh I want the house on the first of Feb and they 'd come and they 'd see the house and they say yes I want it , want it , want it and it was plain that they were going to want it and we started to talk money , as soon as we 'd got the solid block of money I want one O two you er estate agent tells me I can get ninety seven between ninety five and ninety seven say they offer me ninety six
19	‘ After we 'd had a nice dinner together , we 'd go into Richard 's studio and we 'd put on music .
20	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 .
21	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 ?
22	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 .
23	We 'd had a little car before he got there .
24	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 .
25	We have all wished that we 'd had the perfect retort at some time , but most of us can only think of something smart about three days later .
26	We 'd had the odd fling even while she was supposed to be engaged to him — the night of the fire was when we started it .
27	Sally confesses : ‘ We realized , after we 'd had the dividing wall rebuilt between the front room and the back parlour , that it was impossible to get in or out of the back parlour , since we 'd also had the doorway closed off and made into a display case for the tortoiseshell medical implements Peter collects .
28	We thought we 'd had the last laugh when we got to the play-off finals against Charlton but he was an even bigger pain in the arse after that .
29	The change in net debt , er worth referring worth mentioning minus three point three million that much worse would have been significantly lower thirty five million or so lower if we 'd had the same year end exchange rate as we did in nineteen ninety one .
30	Actually the tea shop benefited slightly , because we 'd introduced a new line of rock cakes that week , and some rioters came round to buy them to throw at middle class people . ’