Example sentences of "[vb base] we [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.

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1 When I look at animals , I realise we 've got a lot to learn from them . ’
2 Now let's keep the force the same , say we 've got a Mini engine providing us , just running it steady at three thousand R P M. Pushing out the same amount of force , keep the force the same , this time we put a smaller mass , we 've got a Mini engine and you 've put it on your pushbike .
3 why do n't you wait and see what the numbers are like and then you can always ring up a few people and say we 've got a space if you 'd like to come
4 And unfortunately second half it did n't come right but as I say we 've got a point out of it so we still you know , kept ourselves unbeaten for a game or two , so we 've just got to try keep it going and take it from there .
5 But Charlton was quick to squash any suggestion his players overstep the mark physically , countering : ‘ I do n't think anyone in the world can point the finger at us and say we 've started a war on a football field . ’
6 Er if it was something serious , like say we 'd had a murder or something in the village
7 It 's a chilly wind you know , I hope we 've got a better bus tonight
8 We hope we 've got a deal going with Oxford Mail , where they 'll maybe deliver to 20,000 doors in Oxford the programme , door- to-door .
9 As John Sherry of Geoffrey Reid says : ‘ We hope we have designed a building which people will actually enjoy visiting , not only because they are there to do their shopping , but because the building itself is worth looking at . ’
10 It 's , look we 've got a problem have n't we , the problem is there 's low , there 's persistently low turn out in local government elections .
11 Now look we 've got a fish in there and a fish in there Tim so we must be careful now because otherwise we 're gon na hurt them .
12 Pauline and Steven and Pauline and Tony , remember Pauline came to see us , little girl , oh look we 've got a plant arriving with a brown leaf on it in there
13 Erm not too bad , I mean we 've done a The last thing I done at at the night school , was a historogram .
14 We 've , I mean we 've lost a hundred pound on the car .
15 You know , all this is I mean we 've got a month actually which is a good thing but erm surely you must have some sort of agreements with the union and your and
16 You want , want to get the same amount , I mean we 've got a certain amount of water coming through that pipe ,
17 Yeah but I mean we 've got a lot of
18 I mean we 've got a font called Dryden , which is Scotch-Roman as Monotype call it and it would do it .
19 I mean we 've got an old Errol Flynn there
20 Oh it is true , but it did , it did do it , but that was the other day and I did n't think that they had the same effect , no , well perhaps so , mind you I mean we have done a lot of walking , have n't we ?
21 but I mean other than that , I , I , I 'd like to be dead cautious about that , I , I still think it 's early days , I know we 've made a great success , but it 's early days .
22 When we are talking about directors of businesses , er particularly the larger companies , good people are hard to find and some of them are superstars , and er I know we 've heard a lot about er exceedingly high levels of pay and very high pay increases , er but when you talk about the superstars and megastars , what about the entertainment business , what about sport , what about , you know , golfing celebrities , earning in excess of a million , or racing drivers ?
23 We 've done a lot today you know we 've done a lot of things about fractions and a lot of things about adding , subtracting , times , sharing quite a lot .
24 Which is a lot is n't it really , once we come down to it , you know we 've had a two solid hours of what God has been trying to teach us today .
25 On , on acquisitions , well running through the group , the best of banking er , er strategies to remain non capital intensive and strongly cash generative er , know , you know we 've had a twenty million investment erm , A & A er , a Swiss er , house , we 're extending our networks .
26 Please for god 's sake stop playing Fairclough at the back — the defence is a shambles when he 's there — quite honestly I 'm getting pretty pissed off with Wilko — i know we 've had a long unbeaten run and we 're still second and he 's won us the championship etc etc and this is defenitely over reaction to last night but get rid of the fucking bastard and find us someone who 'll pick teams that can beat the Norwich 's and Man Utd7s of the league or we 'll be perenial mid table finishers .
27 Well erm you know we 've had a lot of people come to us and say we 've qualified sales by telephone , I do n't present that a problem with that , but we have discovered people have not listened to what we 've been saying , even on the training course , when they go out there to sell the space they keep making appointments to go and see people to talk about advertising .
28 I mean I know we 've had a car and we know .
29 We know we 've got a superb quality product that 's why we 're happy to risk our money to prove it .
30 But we 'll ask you to select which one you 're going to go for , and as I know we 've got a room full of gentlemen , let's start with the ladies first .
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