Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] a [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 ‘ We were all aware we 'd made a total cock-up .
4 The national spotlight was on us — and it appeared to most of us that we 'd missed an open goal .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’
10 We 'd got a good relationship with the council . ’
11 I thought we 'd got a good team .
12 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 .
13 And I suppose if we 'd got a clean sheet , and we started again , we 'd do it differently .
14 He told us we 'd got a yellow streak a yard wide down our backs .
15 ‘ After we 'd had a nice dinner together , we 'd go into Richard 's studio and we 'd put on music .
16 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 .
17 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 ?
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 We 'd had a little car before he got there .
21 ‘ 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 . ’
22 Cos I did n't know how we 'd of managed if we 'd had a big one !
23 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 .
24 Actually the tea shop benefited slightly , because we 'd introduced a new line of rock cakes that week , and some rioters came round to buy them to throw at middle class people . ’
25 And after I 'd explained , and we 'd laughed a good deal , and taken off each others ’ wet clothes , it was .
26 At last we 'd sunk a decent putt .
27 Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’
28 Manager Paul Malone surveyed another packed treatment room after yesterday 's game with Linfield and said : ‘ We 've suffered a bad run of injuries over the last month .
29 erm and then the , the , the second import erm major action was about erm local government , and I think that 's really where the point which we , we 've reached a take-home message that we want to erm bring to this council .
30 We 've mounted a whole series of experiments related to finding out what happens to pyre goods in the fire when they 're placed with the body .
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