Example sentences of "we have have the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 We 've had the odd difference of opinion , while respecting the other 's point of view .
6 Not since we 've had the new system . ’
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 . ’
10 We 've had the dart-playing cat and the beer-drinking rabbit … now here 's the pool-playing badger .
11 Since we had the debates in June , we 've had the unfortunate experience er of stagecoach .
12 No , we 've had the main update
13 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 .
14 ‘ 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 .
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 In Western Australia we have had the corporatist experiment .
17 We have had the excellent report of the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy , which has been extremely helpful .
18 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 .
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