Example sentences of "what we have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're very pleased with what we 've done for them ! ’ |
| 2 | If you actually look at what we 've paid for some of the players say over the last two or three years , I guess you 're looking at about three hundred and fifty thousand pounds . |
| 3 | D' you know what we 've come for , Miss Abbott ? |
| 4 | Oh no he said , I said because they got a funeral on , he said that 's what we 've coming for , we 're coming to pick granddad up . |
| 5 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 6 | We 've got a bottle of apricot wine what we 've had for about twelve years . |
| 7 | And does n't this give us — faintly indeed , but unmistakably — just what we 've looked for in vain in all the other Sicilian allusions : that 's to say , evidence that when Pound was in Sicily he did n't go around with his eyes closed , his ears and nostrils stopped ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What we have lived for is the dark |
| 10 | Retrenchment will be the order of the day , with the result that we achieve what we have planned for . |
| 11 | This is less than best but it 's better than nothing , that 's the point and it is very nearly what we have argued for from the very beginning . |
| 12 | Of course , that is what we have to look for , and , of course , there are inevitably going to be occasions when we are compelled to look for it outside the four corners of the language that the draftsman has used . |
| 13 | What we have to look for is ways of realizing they should — in practice . |
| 14 | What we have to hope for is that its control over the language and its position as an arbiter of the quality of that language are maintained . |