Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We have sent him a loyal birthday telegram in exile , ’ he said . |
2 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
3 | We have looked upon it almost as convertible with thought , of which we have called it the very stuff and process . |
4 | We have made him an offer but he 's not very keen . |
5 | We have named him the Redway Rapist ’ . |
6 | Addressing the Institute of Housing in 1989 , the Junior Minister of Housing said of housing associations : ‘ We have given them a vital job to do . |
7 | We have given them a grant , er a couple of years ago . |
8 | We have shown him a better way of making the savings he requires next year , and we will be happy to work with him — and with the consumer groups — to find ways of improving the value obtained for the money spent on legal aid in the future . |
9 | We have got you a blind date … ’ |
10 | They said , ’ We have got you a good deal . |
11 | ‘ We have offered him the chance of coming here as chief executive — but also the opportunity to buy the club . |
12 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
13 | ‘ We have modified it a little already by putting back the starting time from 10 to 10.30 , ’ he said . |