Example sentences of "we 've [verb] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've travelled a tremendously long road and this is a great day for us , ’ he said . |
| 2 | We 've seen a very controlled and steady growth over the thirteen years that we 've been in business and I think as you can see there year on year we have consistently increased turnover and increased profitability . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've adopted a very conservative philosophy of restoration ’ says Esterly . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've run a very tight ship and we feel now is the time to take advantage of that by substantially increasing the manager 's budget , ’ said Richmond . |
| 5 | So what I 've tried to show diagrammatically is that , we start ninety four , ninety five with plans in place , shown by the vertical dotted line on the graph , a number of those will die or leave the system for other reasons during the year , and we 've taken a fairly optimistic view I would say , erm , optimistic in the financial sense , that a significant number of those will leave the system during the year . |
| 6 | As you know from our submission , sir , n we 've taken a more modest requirement for the Greater York area , and that 's based to some extent upon what we think is is achievable there , we 're not saying that erm the figure should not be higher , we 're not saying that the H B F figure for instance should nu not be er put in there , but what we 're saying is if that higher figure does go in because of the clear constraints on the provision of additional land the the higher figure may well mean that there 's a need for two new settlements ra rather than just one . |
| 7 | So I think we 've taken a more enlightened attitude in that sense . |
| 8 | And we 've found a rather dirty enamel mug . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sorry , but we 've got a critically sick horse here . ’ |
| 10 | Er , we know that there 's an O and M report coming through , we 've got a pretty good idea what 's in it . |
| 11 | She 's a great ship , and we 've got a pretty good medical team , even though I do say so myself . |
| 12 | You know , we 've got a completely different animal , that 's what Locke wants to argue . |
| 13 | ‘ If there 's a protected species of plant at the top of relatively new routes which happen to be of good quality , then we 've got a really complex problem to manage , ’ Bill Wright commented , ‘ but if it 's just cotton grass , then the damage done by agricultural pesticides is probably much greater . ’ |
| 14 | Oh we 've got a really ancient Adler |
| 15 | But we 've got a very close-knit family , in that if two people are n't getting on , everybody in the family will make them be friends . |
| 16 | Right so the functional form test , if we look at the kie squared version , right , again we 've got a very small er test statistic implying there 's no breach of functional form right , the , the log er specification , right , seems to be working okay , there 's no problems with it erm if we now look at normality we 've got a bit of a problem with normality , right in that our test statistic is now four point nine , if we look at the critical value at the five percent level of kie when kie squared two , ah it 's not too bad , our five percent critical value of the kie squared two is five point nine nine , so although that test statistic is reasonably high , I mean you 'd probably reject , oh yes , we can reject the null at ten percent of normally distributed errors we would n't reject the null at five percent erm let's just have a look at in actual fact at those errors to see what the problem is . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've got a very great respect for Arthur . ’ |
| 18 | Erm , basically we 've got a very poor deal from the government this year in terms of of of an increase in our spending allowance . |
| 19 | So we 've got a very good film . |
| 20 | One of the reasons we 've got a very good language link is the language univer courses that the University did in the East in the European department , the Baltic Studies . |
| 21 | We 've got a very good set up erm my mechanic Mick Day is coming back again tomorrow ; I 'm picking him up from the airport , so that 'll be three years with him and erm I can rely on him to sort of get things ready and erm you know , we 've got a great set up and really I can just concentrate on trying to be erm world speedway champion this year . |
| 22 | We would like to keep the ball alive , we like to keep the ball on the park and erm looking from there , we will be harrying , chasing ; we think we 've got a very good set of backs . |
| 23 | Any of you , I mean cos we 've got a very young group this week , myself excluded ! |
| 24 | So far , we 've actually managed to characterise about 1600 of that 50,000 and so we 've got a very long way to go . |
| 25 | Er , have we really drawn our programme , we 've got a very complex programme for the , the , tank farm which we did , have we shown ourselves putting the reinforcements in after we 've poured the concrete ? |
| 26 | And we 've got a very big computerized telephone system , so that if it does n't answer sit there with a stopwatch timing each phone I presume , it 's all automatically done and they get a print out at the end of every month giving the average time of the , the phone the , the , the phone takes to be answered . |
| 27 | Now we 've got a very special case here have n't we ? |
| 28 | ‘ We 've captured a very gay hairdresser who 's just wet his pants . ’ |
| 29 | Yes , we 've done well we 've had a pretty good season really , right throughout the club erm in our non-league games . |
| 30 | One way or another we 've had a pretty busy six months . |