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Example sentences of "we have [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1	By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry .
2	By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic !
3	She stopped me in town funny enough erm oh a good couple of weeks ago like , she says to me oh have you heard , cos I was saying about oh we 'd seen something in the shop , it was ever so nice , I said oh I 'm too fat for that she said ooh have you seen , she must be erm infat you know bloody infatuated with dieting
4	Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop
5	‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong .
6	He was obviously peeved that we 'd squared it with the music teacher while he did n't know anything about it .
7	nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like .
8	We then p positioned ourselves further into the room er P C obviously was still with me behind the shield erm once we 'd got ourselves in a in a better position , as far as we were concerned , P C then started talking to the people , erm who were in the bed .
9	Even though we 'd sold it for a ridiculously low .
10	We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime .
11	We 'd left her in the car actually .
12	But he was sitting where we 'd left him beside an empty biscuit tin .
13	If we 'd left it to the day we 'd have been sunk !
14	Do they still own the name or do we have to change ours to The Screaming Yellow Cassettedecks ?
15	The tragedy is , we 've done nothing about the exclusive reliance on interest rates , we 've done nothing about the continuing erosion of jobs , and particularly so in the regions , er and this government has er wasted the summer months ; when it could have taken action it has merely compounded the problems that are of it 's own creation in the mismanagement of the economy .
16	The tragedy is , we 've done nothing about the exclusive reliance on interest rates , we 've done nothing about the continuing erosion of jobs , and particularly so in the regions , er and this government has er wasted the summer months ; when it could have taken action it has merely compounded the problems that are of it 's own creation in the mismanagement of the economy .
17	Well November , I meant the fourth of November it seems to be for ever anyway I spoke to the Head of the Department when they came back and he said I must admit we 've done nothing from the point of view of putting things on paper but a lot of thinking has gone into it I must really sit down now and commit things to paper .
18	You know it 's in in the form that we 've done them in the past .
19	The England captain said : ‘ We 've done it despite a lot of injuries and we 've been without Mark Waugh for the last six matches because he 's with the Australian team in Sri Lanka .
20	It 's been enormously successful because we 've done it on an activist basis so that activists have met one another , all those prejudices and all those stereotypes have immediately vanished as soon as people have stayed in one another 's homes and realized that people have the same problems , they have the same , they have the same problems and the same difficulty er as difficulties as we do .
21	For page one three four and T U P E , yes , well we have done quite an extensive document , there 's been a lot done about T U P E in the public sector we 've done it in the government sector and given guidelines , and T U P E , while it is like you rightly say , a step forward , it 's not the total answer we need something better , but it does level out the playing field that the cowboys can find it difficult in and we as a union are advocating to our members where there is a transfer taking place , whether there 's a change to your employment challenge it and we will support that challenge with the necessary legal interpretation if so .
22	I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion
23	And of course , we 've seen her in the gossip columns , stepping out with the rich , the famous and the suntanned .
24	We 've seen it in the er erm broadsheet up-market papers .
25	There 's always lots of action tho' football is a plus , We 've never been to Wembley but we 've seen it from a bus .
26	If Knightshayes had been a really fine Victorian garden , you 'd have had to keep it as it was , but we 've turned it into a twentieth-century garden and that 's what the Trust has taken .
27	The dodgy S & M imagery of ‘ Raping A Slave ’ ( actually a meditation on power and work ) and other included tracks form the ‘ Young God ’ EP and the still-withering power of ‘ Cop ’ ( ‘ Nobody burns your skin off like a cop ’ ) amidst the all-powerful monotony show that we 've lost something along the way .
28	I think that it ought to be self-evident , erm if we 've done our programme in a way which er , is clear or if we 've presented it in a clear fashion , then I think sequence and clashes er and safety , to a large extent , become self-evident .
29	So here we 'd actually have a match of all three saying that we 've recognized it to a level three .
30	I I asked the er the minister earlier about this question and I appreciate his difficulties being a home office minister rather than a foreign office minister and I quite understand his reluctance to er stray too far from his departmental portfolio but the reality is that the British government agreed that the European parliament should continue to meet in Strasbourg but we 've heard nothing from the minister as to where the money should come from er in order to make that commitment a reality because I 'm sure that every member opposite would say that the uncertainty about the present boundaries is not the er responsibility of the British government , that it 's a matter for the French government to sort out which boundaries er will be in place in the United Kingdom by June the ninth , the date of the European elections , but the reality is that the British government have gone along with the arrangement for having Strasbourg recognised as a er seat for the European parliament .