Example sentences of "we have the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But not only have we had the Great Fire of London we 've had other disasters in the country apart from disasters of the Great War and the er Second World War .
2 That 's all from you so can we have the financial report and you will switch off sir .
3 Do we have the correct management skills ?
4 Do We Have the Correct Test ?
5 Nor do we have the legal right to supervise work conditions in rural areas .
6 Yeah , well even Laura like she eats salad at school like you know , but erm , she 's got erm , what did we have the other night cos we 'd been eating semi semi Mediterranean food this week
7 Hardly a week goes by now without us having a new champion … central south sport has never had it so good … this week we 've the European champion of champions to toast … the name is Sue Wright … the game is squash … and this is the Friday Feature
8 I shall be running the saloon — it 'll be like old times , and we 've the new barmaid in the public .
9 Now to this week 's competition , and for that we 've the ideal garment for winter sports fans .
10 And we had the fantastic help in from South Wales , most thos terribly good er people were terribly good to us in organizing er different things .
11 We had the eerie impression that we were the only people alive and the clip-clop of our horses ' hooves was the last remaining sound under heaven .
12 Yeah , then we had the Blue Flames , the young girls who does the pom pom dancing and er
13 I suspect that if we were to take a sensate tension structure such as the love-hate paradox that lies at the heart of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet theme , we would be able to transpose it into different forms each appropriate to a particular culture , and , provided we had the necessary skill of course , we would be able to do this for all cultures in the world .
14 I asked him why he so dearly wished to walk in a street as dank as a sewer , and to play by the waters of an oily , rat-infested canal , when we had the exquisite reaches of the Seine at hand , and the gardens of his school friends .
15 We just could n't get off we had the Metropolitan Police escorting us through you see , to the , we were going to the south .
16 We had the usual instructions that in the event of his death he should be buried here , and in those cases we do n't wait .
17 We had the usual half-hour hanging about for Kerrison .
18 Towards the end of November 1944 , or maybe the beginning of December , we had the usual succession of dark days before Christmas , made worse by thick , penetrating fog .
19 We had the good fortune to have fixed ropes in place all the way down but there were gusts of 100mph which literally lifted us up off our feet and threw us back down again , ’ said Harry .
20 Because of his lucrative clothing and flamboyant style of play , it was possible to be unsure of his ability as a player , but since we had the good fortune to see Andrew at Wimbledon this year , many people now know what a truly talented and exciting man he really is .
21 He intrigued us and then , when we had the good fortune to meet him socially , he emerged as both a remarkable and idealistic person .
22 Almost all our village would go — brothers , sisters , relatives and friends , arriving home every fortnight , unless we had the good fortune to be working nearby .
23 He worked as its honorary secretary until its demise in 1919 when , according to his own view in his Seventy Years among Savages ( 1921 ) , ‘ It ended as it began in its character of Forlorn Hope ; we had the good will of the free-lances , not of the public or the professors . ’
24 Yes , we had the Labour candidate knocking on our door yesterday and I think John must of been in a right foul mood , cos he he says come in and talk to me
25 But I do n't think we had the right attitude , ’ Sheila says .
26 ‘ He was always very careful about ‘ the company ’ , making sure we had the right attitude .
27 ‘ We felt that between us we had the right mix of skills . ’
28 We had to look at what we can afford to do in the future , and make sure that we had the right number of quality staff in the right places to carry out our programme .
29 I could say a lot about ho , but anyway we started this and we used to go to the I L P , and we used to get packed meetings there on a Sunday night , and s then about nineteen , course we had the general strike , and through the general strike we was both in the I L P and we were doing everything we could you know , distributing the illegal leaflets , and er newspapers that we duplicated , on a hand duplicator .
30 Well now in nineteen twenty six we had the general strike , and the conditions in Ipswich were so violent that our Borough Police we could n't cope with them , and our Chief Constable , he had to apply to the Home Office and he got permission to have men from East Suffolk and West Suffolk Police , Cambridge County Police , Huntingdon Police sent some , and they were billeted in hotels in the town centre .
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