Example sentences of "we have [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had time for a short walk on a rocky path before I had to return to Athens . |
| 2 | Friends , as we speak today about South Africa , we speak about transition transition from February nineteen ninety when De Klerk said that he would change things and he did change things and they were dramatic changes and then we had apartheid with a liberal dispensation . |
| 3 | We had tea in a still half-deserted seaside town and when we came out of the cafe Edward produced from his pocket a tomato-shaped ketchup-holder which had taken Laura 's fancy and amused Edward with its outrageous farting noise . |
| 4 | We had dinner at a good restaurant round the corner and then I took her to Sammy 's Bowery Follies , a popular nostalgic show in lower Manhatten . |
| 5 | ‘ We have talking for a long time about how the company might change structurally , and many of Alan Gordon Walker 's proposals would have left me with a job that I did n't want to do , ’ she said . |
| 6 | But guilt is also within us — it is our feeling , realistic or not , that we have responsibility for a specific or amorphous offence against humanity or God . |
| 7 | We have knowledge of a typical getting-up in the morning ’ , and we use it to fill in missing details . |
| 8 | The oldest pieces of amber we have date from a hundred million years ago , a very long time after the conifers and the flying insects first appeared , but they contain a huge range of creatures , including representatives of all the major insect groups that we know today . |
| 9 | As explained at our meeting , we have access to a large number of information bases from which potentially interested parties may be identified . |