Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the intricacies , I know more about Europe , eventually , and other countries , due to not being having a a briefing by a Headmaster for half an hour of something The group of us , he had eight to ten of us in the room trying to prime us on what we 'd missed for a year . |
| 2 | We 'd called at a house to install some concrete steps in the rear garden , and learnt that they had been burgled the previous night . |
| 3 | Well we we 're going round Conways we sa , we 'd gone into a pub for erm we had sort of granary baps did n't we ? |
| 4 | Oh and we 'd love to do swimming , erm , because we 'd done as a surprise for Carla for Christmas cos I mean we said the kids are getting older now , Dave heard it on the radio , erm , for one fifty a head , erm they were opening Guildford 's swimming pool erm , from ten till twe twelve ? |
| 5 | A Christmas stocking — no , a pair of red tights , actually — filled up to here with pound notes that we 'd won on a strawberry roan named Cordelia . |
| 6 | We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank . |
| 7 | We 'd started with a lobster bisque that was almost certainly Sainsbury 's , but since Sainsbury 's almost certainly make the finest lobster bisque that ever found itself in a can , there can be no complaint . |
| 8 | We 've struggled against a background of the Charter Review in the BBC to match ourselves to the changing needs of the audience . |
| 9 | Now quite clearly the new settlement erm when it , if and when it goes ahead will be outside erm the area of the green belt and which by definition is by and large the area of the Greater York er er study area , and I think in response to er Mr 's point , we 've accepted as a need for a er a minor amendment to the wording of policy H one to reflect that er that reality . |
| 10 | That 's something that we 've argued about a lot . |
| 11 | We 've landed on a star , it 's green and blue |
| 12 | As you know I 've er been holding a number of er small meetings with staff er and one of the questions I 've been asking is whether or not there has been a need for the building presentation that we 've done for a couple of years er and generally there was the view expressed that yes it was desirable but perhaps in a different format . |
| 13 | Approaching the crags we 've seen for a couple of days . |
| 14 | I mean we , we clearly do not have a socialist society even at the end of land reform as we , as we 've seen in a sense we 've created a , a private enterprise system which is based on equalities within capitalism . |
| 15 | We 've seen in a number of areas , the development of regional net environmental networks , which we have been directly involved in helping develop . |
| 16 | But this is about four or five years ago so I mean it 's n we 've moved on a lot since then . |
| 17 | Something tied up , something in there as a heading so every member of staff knows that at such and such a time they are working on a heading of environmental awareness I would like us to have a precis of what that 's gon na involve but , I sha n't worry if we have n't got that we 've moved on a step |
| 18 | ‘ And we 've decided on a change of approach . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We 've played with a lot of spirit and commitment , but people defend that much better when they are winning . ’ |
| 20 | Cos if we have n't then all of our assumptions into why we 're doing things like auto-offs and it improves the outgoing costs and then we 've got better reta better information and better screens and all that sort of stuff , I mean it blows every single assumption we 've made in a way . |
| 21 | By the way , there was one thing that we did n't mention when we were talking about C P O's that is very pertinent is that already , I 've got it on authority , that one of the C P O's that we 've employed as a civilian has been offered a job with an alarm company at fifteen thousand a year |
| 22 | My Lord we 've assumed as a matter of English law that I think the counterclaim can arise as a set off , but the other matters are a matter of community law |
| 23 | Now , we do these things after we 're saved , they get us saved , we do them after we 've saved as a confession that we are trusting Jesus Christ as our saviour . |
| 24 | We , we we 've gone through a stage where we 've said , I 'm not good enough , my families not good enough , my home 's not , and my class is n't good , and my my town is n't good enough , erm , and so you go on from that , and you you eventually , but well , you know , what about England . |
| 25 | We 've gone to a lot of trouble here to promote good relations with the local community and I 'm not going to have all that good work vitiated by a totally unnecessary legal action , particularly not now when work will soon begin on the new reactor . ‘ |
| 26 | It could be a trick , an impression ( we 've heard of a dog who impersonates an anteater ! ) it 's up to you . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've strayed into a zone with a high magical index , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Perhaps a little more expensive , but we 've opted for a powerhead run undergravel — which will ensure adequate throughput of water through the gravel , and offers many similar features to the internal power filter , in terms of flow and aeration . |
| 29 | Outside , it 's still raining , and as we gallantly struggle to open our umbrella in the wind , we suddenly find we 've come to a halt beside a large black car , and a man in a smart suit is opening the door for us to get in . |
| 30 | People who have intelligence and a conscience wrestle with these problems and we 've come to a conclusion which is as good a deal as we think we can get , with the people of the area and with the Labour party and I think he said that if people in this authority are sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time then people will change their minds . |