Example sentences of "we [verb] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The food we eat has a significant effect upon our mental agility . |
| 2 | So we we we tend to have a different sort of , probably if you 'd , if you ask that question differently you would get a different percentage . |
| 3 | And I 'm sorry we appear to have a little bit of a problem with that tape , we have the wrong tape . |
| 4 | The small shop area has to be completed and we hope to have a full range of items for sale in the near future . |
| 5 | But in our society the self-denial of which we speak has a moral dimension which is not strongly recognised in all civilisations . |
| 6 | Then came more accidents — we seemed to have a large number of accidents in the 1950s and early 1960s and many of them finished up as public inquiries . |
| 7 | It certainly contributed in a more direct manner in that most of the food we ate had a high carbohydrate content and , although I was unaware of it at the time , I put on a lot of weight . |
| 8 | ‘ After we 'd had a nice dinner together , we 'd go into Richard 's studio and we 'd put on music . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We 'd had a little car before he got there . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We seem to have a labour party that treats education as some kind of middle class hobby that thinks of education spending as something spent only on the bourgeoisie , something to do with a university , something not really important for ordinary people . |
| 15 | But looking back , we seem to have a selective memory for the best bits of the past . |
| 16 | She sighed happily , then went on , ‘ We seem to have a prospective buyer and Liz is making frantic signals to me , so I 'd better go . |
| 17 | We seem to have a tremendous lot of seagulls do n't we ? |
| 18 | We seem to have a good time whenever we 're out and always have something to talk about , which is really great . |
| 19 | So in spite of it being a mid-turn switch , in this case we seem to have a different type of switch from the one in ( 6 ) , for the other parties to the conversation respond differently to it . |
| 20 | Now if our assets if by promoting the right to buy , by having capital receipts we seem to have a large balance building up , there is the distinct risk given the sort of policies that this government has pursued over time of a we will be running a risk there , we do n't know what they 're going to do , you do n't know what they 're going to do . |
| 21 | Are we going to have a global oil convention for sustainable global production , management and conservation of oil ? " |
| 22 | Are we going to have a Chinese meal tonight ? |
| 23 | The Conservatives believe that the government 's role is to ensure that we continue to have a good foundation of basic and strategic science on which industry can draw , to encourage a good supply of up-to-date and creative scientists , and to encourage the right climate for successful innovation . |
| 24 | ‘ Last night we managed to have a reasonable conversation . |
| 25 | The dark uniform we wore had a military cap with polished brim , and in our fashioned tunics of soft serge and shiny boots we presented an avenging image , clothed in the symbolic colour of death and darkness . |
| 26 | Yet even so , the dispensary was busy every day , and we did have a great deal of work , dealing with the humdrum , everyday ailments — yaws , measles , ‘ flu and accidents — accepted by the Polynesians with a philosophical resignation , as though they were saying , ‘ This is the price we pay for living in paradise . ’ |
| 27 | My brother tt he er had a bicycle and then he joined up , er we did have a hectic time , he could make anything go . |
| 28 | Cos we did have a young man I say young man , he was in his early twenties , he used to do all that , and he left and they never replaced him ! |
| 29 | Very quick it was but we did have a nice bath did n't |
| 30 | Yeah we did have a good afternoon . |