Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Outside , it 's still raining , and as we gallantly struggle to open our umbrella in the wind , we suddenly find we 've come to a halt beside a large black car , and a man in a smart suit is opening the door for us to get in . |
| 32 | People who have intelligence and a conscience wrestle with these problems and we 've come to a conclusion which is as good a deal as we think we can get , with the people of the area and with the Labour party and I think he said that if people in this authority are sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time then people will change their minds . |
| 33 | Hello there … welcome to Australia for a Central South sporting special … where we 've come for a race of the future … the Solar Challenge … sun powered cars racing through the wild outback … that 's our Friday Feature … first it 's back to Britain … for our football parade |
| 34 | That 's right see we 've talked , we 've spoken about all the form closes before in the past , we 've spoken about a sumter closes , I mean you know what I mean by a sumter close , do n't you ? |
| 35 | On that subject , obviously next year , er bearing in mind that we 've agreed as a committee to go for twelve matches on Sundays |
| 36 | Right so we 've agreed on a maximum of sixteen and three quarter percent paper wastage , three hours setting up time , and er , four and half hours printing . |
| 37 | Mills was amoral and untrustworthy , but we 've known for a while now that he definitely worked for us . ’ |
| 38 | Anyway , when he , when he came back again we had to come back cos see we had another delivery of gravel and we ordered three yards and we reckon that on the last journey we bought two yards , we 've got over a yard too much gravel ! |
| 39 | ‘ We 've got through a lot of work in the last four days , Chang , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 40 | well then we 'd all be tremendously specific , well let me ask some one who does drive around on the closest we 've got to a tank driver here , Gillian you drive something very large |
| 41 | So we , we , we 've got in a sense this holding exercise of rent reduction , interest rate reduction but we are going to need a new land reform document to take us through , I mean certainly once we get to nineteen forty nine and we are in power , th th we , we are gon na want land reform are n't we ? |
| 42 | Right th the erm I accept that looking at work carried out , which is what we 've got in a number of instances , like |
| 43 | ‘ We 've tried for a donor … ’ |
| 44 | Tt and I think we 've identified in a number of different factors erm er behind that , that trend and that erm i in a sense there 's , there 's the kind of distinction between the ideological approach and the pragmatic approach in that we , we 've seen there is a , I think a , a broad ideological impetus behind the reform in the sense that there is this long-term commitment to overthrowing feudalism . |
| 45 | oh we 've put in a making the interview forms , just having the Welsh translation on the top . |
| 46 | We 're putting some money away for e expenses , we 've taken up the option to purchase , we 've put in a planning application for change of use , we investigated possible grant applications , we 're investigating future expenditure and income generation , and then we report back to this committee once . |
| 47 | To help us develop a strategic approach to advise provision , we 've embarked on a mapping exercise . |
| 48 | that we 've had for a while . |
| 49 | Unless there were special factors involved and although I can not recall a situation where we 've paid for a person to go into that 's for members to discuss , not me , but we have certainly paid an enhanced rate where somebody wanted to go to live near their daughter who was in and we felt that was a legitimate reason for paying a higher rate and , and , and we did do so , so there are other types of flexibility . |
| 50 | Mr Walker , who had vowed he would have to be evicted with the family , said : ‘ We had hoped for a stay of execution to allow the family to depart with dignity , but the Scottish Office handled the request in the same way as they have handled the whole affair — with massive insensitivity . |
| 51 | Again , we had suffered from a lack of screens to back the tables for display purposes and privacy . |
| 52 | At the outset of the plans , we had prayed for a sign of divine approval . |
| 53 | Their quotation was £12 for two pages , we had asked for a quote based on four , and although the letter promised a price and font list it was not enclosed . |
| 54 | We had got to a size where we needed an injection of institutional money and there were people who wanted to retire . |
| 55 | On the back of a piece of paper where we had worked on a poem called ‘ The Word ’ I found the quotation that begins this chapter . |
| 56 | I saw the formation of the Black Workers ' Group and the concessions that we had won as a lever or a rolling stone which would have a knock-on effect . |
| 57 | Remarks ( i ) If the reader feels we have gone to a lot of trouble to establish a result which is " obvious " we ask him on what grounds he bases his belief i this result ? |
| 58 | In the British system of local government finance , with the wonderful inimitable reforms of the present government , er we have gone from a situation in which er the central government financed about , between forty five and fifty percent of local expenditure to a situation where the central government finances about eighty five percent , I think between eighty five and ninety percent of local spending . |
| 59 | my Lord we have said in a number of places the claims are erm unlawful and we refer to the fact that the claims come out of the central fund bi-law |
| 60 | ‘ We have sent for a doctor . |