Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 We 'd got nowhere to go at weekends , and they disappeared .
2 You 'll see we have managed still to give you all your top 4 priority requests .
3 We 've done well to get Nails and Hoomey going so well .
4 We 've vowed never to get married .
5 We 've come here to live . ’
6 On arrival together , it is appropriate to encourage one another saying , as it were , ‘ Come on friends , let's do what we 've come here to do . ’
7 We 've come aboard to help you .
8 We 've worked together to make sure our products address the needs of the real world .
9 ‘ Maybe , when we 've found somewhere to live , we can send the Ship back and collect any other nomes we can find , ’ Masklin hazarded .
10 So we 've got nowhere to put it
11 I mean , police stations regularly become full of stolen items and we 've got nowhere to put it , and we have to have these displays erm , where we try and and trace the owners , it 's a , a very difficult job , it 's a very time consuming job
12 Sarah and Elsa with two really crap raggers are on the stage and we do n't really wan na sort of socialize with them so we , basically we 've got nowhere to see this lunchtime .
13 Well , we 've got somehow to think our way out of the current difficulties .
14 At last , but not until May 1941 , did the much-feared message which we had prayed never to receive , arrive .
15 Once we had worked together to help him regain his faith , he was able to go on to play just as well as he had done before ; indeed , now that he had remembered the feeling of success , he was able to play even better .
16 We have begun again to structure the primordial feeling , the tribal emotions from which a few centuries of literacy divorced us. ( op. cit. : 63 . )
17 Since 1979 we have invested heavily to secure that status .
18 Since introducing our workshop carving competition in February we have waited expectantly to see the carved tools , sent to the competition sponsors — The Woodworks — for judging .
19 A spokesman for ScottishPower joined in the criticism of the VAT ruling , saying : ‘ We have worked hard to ensure that Scotland has the lowest tariffs in the UK .
20 You have to try and improve trading skills and efficiency and it is vital to maintain organized groups of women and men who are committed to fighting locally and at all levels for ordinary decent decency and simple justice in the way people are treated of course , but we have got also to find ways of getting together to face those problems no one knows how to solve .
21 We have learnt enough to know that your box will be of great interest , Doctor . ‘
22 Mr Peter Bonsall of the London Borough of Islington 's Parks Department , says , " This is a site we have fought hard to retain .
23 In order to make some headway in describing and analysing language , we have had temporarily to treat linguistic units and structures as if they had an independent status and possessed ‘ meaning ’ in their own right .
24 We have failed miserably to support those experiments financially .
25 We have come here to disturb legends which are a part of the very soil of these lands .
26 We have come here to see the king and we must all go into the temple .
27 But we have come here to fight , have we not ?
28 After being mobbed by local rugby fans Botha said : ‘ We have come here to prove that we are all equal and our rugby is unified . ’
29 We have come together to witness the marriage of business angel David pounds sterling , and small business , .
30 Sure Style spokesman Andrew Lincoln said : ‘ We have acted quickly to carry out an initial investigation into the activities of personnel at our Middlesbrough branch one of 15 remote locations in the UK . ’
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