Example sentences of "we have have the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We 've had the occasional report of undesirable characters lurking round the hospital . |
| 5 | I do , I hope but we appreciated Claire and Steven had her more than we had , but you know , we 've had the odd times we 've virtually been across there a month or something like , but but when you have a position where you have five |
| 6 | We 've had the odd difference of opinion , while respecting the other 's point of view . |
| 7 | Not since we 've had the new system . ’ |
| 8 | Erm , due erm there 's also as you know , we 've , we 've had the chartered petition on the market and we are going on with that . |
| 9 | And they do n't mean when we can afford a bigger house or when we 've had the big-deal holiday , but when I 've risen high enough on the corporate ladder to be able to take six months off without everyone forgetting who the hell I am . |
| 10 | It 's only because we 've had the bad luck to find ourselves in competition with Robert and Ian , otherwise we could have had all their present clients . ’ |
| 11 | We 've had the dart-playing cat and the beer-drinking rabbit … now here 's the pool-playing badger . |
| 12 | Since we had the debates in June , we 've had the unfortunate experience er of stagecoach . |
| 13 | No , we 've had the main update |
| 14 | First , it has to fall within our viewing window : we have to have the right apparatus to receive and process the information signalling the event . |
| 15 | ‘ We have to sentence and the sentence must be a meaningful one , but above all we have to have the long-term support of parents for the biggest range of offenders are appallingly young . |
| 16 | ‘ We have to sentence and the sentence must be a meaningful one , but above all we have to have the long-term support of parents for the biggest range of offenders are appallingly young . |
| 17 | erm And if we are going to compete in world sport then erm and if we have to apply like Manchester , who 's applying for the Olympic Games , we have to have the appropriate stadia . |
| 18 | In Western Australia we have had the corporatist experiment . |
| 19 | We have had the excellent report of the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy , which has been extremely helpful . |
| 20 | I should think that all of us have had the unfortunate experience at some time or other of sitting on a plastic interlocking chair in a draughty hall listening to some old wind bag droning on endlessly to screens of projected OHP transparencies that no one can clearly see . |