Example sentences of "we have [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 And she went away and produced that document after we 'd given her the brief .
2 But next to the Dance Hall if we 'd given them the licence to ha turn the cinema into a Dance Hall , there was this little old boy who lived just the other side of the road , in an old cottage , and he was over eighty .
3 We 'd given you the activities to do there so you could find the output of them .
4 In fact if we 'd done it the proper way you 'd of had
5 She told a magazine : ‘ If we 'd left it the way it was so depressing you 'd have wanted to slash your wrist after seeing it .
6 When an animal is brought in , especially an otter which is very nervous , we 've taught them the basic techniques of how to save them .
7 I do n't make any apologies for that , and maybe it is going over the old ground , but unless we do it , unless we try to do it , if we 've done it the way before been and it has n't produced what we , what we want , then surely it 's not for us to sit back and say , ‘ Well , it 's been through that and it has n't worked ’ , surely we ought to try again , and that 's what I hope to be doing , sort of value your support and see you .
8 It 's too easy , I think , to assume that women are n't aggressive and are sensitive and men are more aggressive and less sensitive because that 's the way society has wanted them to be in the past and children have grown up and lived up to those stereotypes , so I do n't think we can actually say yet that women can offer anything distinctive until we 've given them the chance to be themselves really .
9 ‘ I would be hesitant about forecasting a recovery for Pentos until we 've heard what the Budget brings in March , ’ commented William Cullum , retail analyst at Panmure Gordon .
10 We 've offered him the best contract we could give him
11 We 've never in the past looked in detail at the total work content to work out these time units , after all in the past , we 've known what the client wants , we 've been giving him it for years .
12 Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way .
13 We had given them the prospect of an out in the five years and they did very well out of their investment . ’
14 We had to guess what the speaker was intending to say , from the context — just as foreigners listening to English , in fact .
15 We have not just heard what the official Opposition have to say , or what the Government have said in the autumn statement ; we have heard what the Opposition 's opposition suggest , in the form of the amendment tabled by the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) .
16 The more fully we have developed ourselves the more cause for such gratitude we will have , and the more we understand the cosmos , particularly by grasping the true nature of detailed parts of it and their place in the total scheme , the more we will appreciate the sheer wonderfulness of it , and arrive at a kind of mystical adoration of it .
17 We have to give them the ball out wide and let them get at Southend 's back four . ’
18 Sizewell B project manager Jim McFarlane told a meeting of the local community liaison committee : ‘ We believe the case for more nuclear power is irresistible but we have to see what the Government says before deciding whether to submit the C station application .
19 We have looked upon it almost as convertible with thought , of which we have called it the very stuff and process .
20 We have named him the Redway Rapist ’ .
21 Until now , we have discussed financial reporting in terms of the organization , and it has been implicit that we have understood what the organization is and what its implications for accounting are .
22 Terry Austin said : ‘ We have admired what the Museum has achieved entirely through voluntary effort and their philosophy of mixing education with having fun .
23 To achieve this vision for the ES , we have set ourselves the following key aims for our organisation :
24 To achieve this vision for the ES , we have set ourselves the following key aims for our organisation :
25 Rather than elevating the rights of the fetus to the exclusion of all the other factors , we have set ourselves the primary task of helping other women who face the dilemma of unwanted childbearing .
26 All this is programmatic until we have shown what the crucial sceptical argument is .
27 After Fox 's most successful three-day launch , the best ever non-summer debut , Mr Sherak said : ‘ We have doubled what the first movie earned two years ago .
28 We have offered him the chance of coming here as chief executive — but also the opportunity to buy the club .
29 We have welcomed what the Board are doing , and we 've encouraged them to find new ways of doing so more in meeting the needs of the elderly who increase in numbers here in Scotland .
30 In reply , we would point out that , before we can even raise the question of correlation between linguistic expressions and extra-linguistic phenomena , we have to know what the linguistic expressions are , and for speakers and hearers ( even if not for strict behaviourists ) this means understanding them .
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