Example sentences of "we have [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So you see we , we 've got a three-tier movement you know , throughout the , throughout the country .
2 And the guy driving the truck says , no we ca n't we 've got an important meeting .
3 really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ?
4 ‘ We were all aware we 'd made a total cock-up .
5 The national spotlight was on us — and it appeared to most of us that we 'd missed an open goal .
6 It was late in the afternoon now , later than I thought it would be , and shadows were long on the grass before us , so that by the time we 'd travelled the leafy lane to Flanders Hall and had followed the road past the Grange to West Burton village green , it was early evening .
7 And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there .
8 As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job .
9 If we 'd done the wrong things at the wrong time , it could have been the end of Cowley .
10 We 'd approached the remote , uninhabited Welsh island , twelve miles off the coast , in the Cubango .
11 We 'd taken a small local boat — built for four people but with 15 on board not to mention some pigs and chickens — out to an island .
12 We 'd taken a small local boat — built for four people but with 15 on board not to mention some pigs and chickens — out to an island .
13 ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’
14 We 'd got a good relationship with the council . ’
15 I thought we 'd got a good team .
16 and we 'd got a little old fellow with us , you know , well built very not very big but broad as what he was long .
17 And I suppose if we 'd got a clean sheet , and we started again , we 'd do it differently .
18 He told us we 'd got a yellow streak a yard wide down our backs .
19 I mean , if I were to sell my house now supposing somebody came galloping in along before Christmas ooh ooh I want the house on the first of Feb and they 'd come and they 'd see the house and they say yes I want it , want it , want it and it was plain that they were going to want it and we started to talk money , as soon as we 'd got the solid block of money I want one O two you er estate agent tells me I can get ninety seven between ninety five and ninety seven say they offer me ninety six
20 ‘ After we 'd had a nice dinner together , we 'd go into Richard 's studio and we 'd put on music .
21 So anyway we 'd had a good look round and this ch church warden said hey you 'd better go and get some seats cos it 's going to get .
22 Erm , on appendix B , erm there is an item which erm members of the committee erm will know about very well it 's the laboratory services that we give and have a great relate to them , erm the item goes under seven I believe , the figures there have dropped , is that because we 'd had a successful income erm there , we 've got a hundred and ten thousand for both up ninety two and ninety three and ninety , sorry ninety two three and ninety three ninety four , is it that er , could we know or are we estimating that we 're going to get a nice income because we have been told in earlier reports that this is quite a good slice of income to us and those figures are amended accordingly is that right ?
23 Our own particular case is our case went to the High Court some three hundred thousand pounds , when perhaps if we 'd had a dedicated pensions act setting out what could and could not be done , that would never have happened .
24 Although we we 'd had a modest week in terms of routes , we 'd found enough delight and challenge in the sunlit silence of the valley and the peaks — and now we knew the full potential of the place .
25 We 'd had a little car before he got there .
26 ‘ That we 'd had a short but intense affair , and when we 'd met again and realised we still felt the same about each other you 'd revealed how Thomas was mine . ’
27 Cos I did n't know how we 'd of managed if we 'd had a big one !
28 We 'd had a huge rally of 10,000 people for Ronald Reagan at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and I was flying on to Los Angeles with one of the co-ordinators the next morning .
29 We have all wished that we 'd had the perfect retort at some time , but most of us can only think of something smart about three days later .
30 We 'd had the odd fling even while she was supposed to be engaged to him — the night of the fire was when we started it .
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