Example sentences of "[adv] we [verb] had [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So we 've had hell and high water with
2 Now , already we 've had calls on the next story .
3 THE shocking drink-driving ads may be effective but already we have had incidents of courts letting offenders walk free .
4 also we have had promises of items on loan when we eventually open the Museum .
5 So far we 've had door handles coming off in our hands , sticking windows , a rotten floorboard and a pretty coal-effect fire that produced no heat .
6 Let's pick someone completely at random , , now we 've had Tracey figuratively speaking !
7 Today we have had snow again this morning , but quite a nice sunny afternoon .
8 Well actually before we come here , like back here we 've had weekends in Belgium .
9 Earlier we 'd had coffee and conversation in Mary 's tea room , an interview more off the record than on , and for little obvious reason .
10 Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it
11 Since then we have had Polly Peck , Brent Walker , the scandal of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International , and then the greatest scandal of all — the Maxwell scandal .
12 Nineteen fifty one , we moved in , er and , I 've had , you 're not the first person to come all round here , this house , they used , they used to come round in shows from the Corporation all visitors used to come , they used to say , right Jean can we bring them round we 've had people from Germany and everywhere and being in the architect 's department I fell for all this you know I had
13 That 's why we 've had things like the Dream Machine , and setting up a Chill Out room — so that people feel they 're involved in different things , yet connected to the band .
14 Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years
15 Recently we 've had Danny Apsey , the poet , come to talk to a group and next week we 're having Ted Hughes , who 's going to come and read his poems to us .
16 Recently we have had trouble with the engine misfiring and stalling , even when hot .
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