Example sentences of "we have [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 See we 've got four phones in our house and it does add up
2 But , we 've still two I still see we 've got two documents though .
3 As you can see we 've got three children who will be going to the school and I do n't want them to think they have to get in a car every time they travel anywhere .
4 ‘ I 'd say we 'd gone two miles , ’ Stephen said .
5 Everyone was so encouraged , once we 'd done one part and realised how good it looked .
6 unless you have a base to work off of started to do , once we started doing the er , the walls take the scaffold down out of the way and to release some area off our stock pile we decided to back build so that by the time that we 'd done six tanks we 'd got half our area taken up by all that material excavated and just flip back to the drawing here what 's going to happen is that stockpile here .
7 After we 'd done five songs they turned the disco on dead loud . ’
8 Nicholas said , ‘ We 'd planted four mines , before we knew of the truce .
9 Er and most of us had in excess of a hundred pound , maybe a hundred and six , a hundred and ten pound , but when this guy bought place over , there was a kind of flat rate , and we 'd to drop sixteen pounds to ninety
10 Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high .
11 Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ?
12 It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible .
13 We 'd got fifty people coming , no less counting the women-folk .
14 It was nearly six o'clock , and we 'd got forty minutes to wait .
15 We 'd had six months of worrying whether everything was going to be all right — what Joseph would look like , or whether he would be all there , ’ says Leslie , her relief still evident .
16 Elizabeth agreed to do our programme after we 'd spent five years gently hammering at her representatives — and of course we were n't the only people after her , the whole world was beating at her door .
17 There was a moment of sudden realisation that we 'd spent four months raising this cash and we were not going to let it go that easily .
18 We 'd spent seven years rehearsing the same plays , playing in the same team , calling the same teachers by their nicknames and falling in love with the same classmates .
19 How could we have guessed 10 years ago that there would be a video shop on every street corner ?
20 Well why why do we have wait three months ?
21 We 've waited three years .
22 ‘ This past month we 've suffered eleven raids , and still no man can say for sure who the reivers are .
23 ln terms of productive hours , we 've achieved 2,320 hours , excluding all the work done in Canada and Soltau . ’
24 We did n't , we 've done two sides already now , tonight .
25 Which means we 've done three times in a night and a half , Agnes ?
26 We 've met two people who have had them .
27 we 've been married twelve years , and we 've moved three times , so we have n't moved as much as them , really .
28 We 've conceded three goals in six games , so it 's not too bad , is it ?
29 We 've asked three mums , with babies aged from two weeks to five months , to give the slings and changing bags a star rating from one to five .
30 And we have never apart from I think we 've lost one spoon which was the since we started so er we do n't leave valuable things around but it 's an important consideration to think that our most valuable things are things it would take four large strong men to move
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