Example sentences of "we [vb past] have the " in BNC.

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1 We asked to have the radio back in case there was any news from his family .
2 ‘ In no case where we interviewed had the woman only been raped by one man .
3 The analysts we interviewed have the highest regard for Wellcome 's annual report and are confident that the company does not indulge in creative accounting or any other dubious practices .
4 Two tenascin cDNA clones that we identified to have the AD1 sequence indicate the presence of two possible splice forms ie. , a full length transcript ( clone TN3.1 ) , and one in which repeat 11 and 12 are spliced ( clone H1 ) .
5 If we 'd had the confidence and belief in our finishing that we had in our general play , we would have been 2–0 up at half-time . ’
6 Sally confesses : ‘ We realized , after we 'd had the dividing wall rebuilt between the front room and the back parlour , that it was impossible to get in or out of the back parlour , since we 'd also had the doorway closed off and made into a display case for the tortoiseshell medical implements Peter collects .
7 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 .
8 The cut where the wing had been severed was quite clean , and the blood had dried up , so she concluded that the poor bird must have flown through some overhead wires in the vicinity during the severe gales we 'd had the night before .
9 That feeling lasted a while but after we 'd had the children something changed and I slowly realized that I did n't love her anymore .
10 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 .
11 The change in net debt , er worth referring worth mentioning minus three point three million that much worse would have been significantly lower thirty five million or so lower if we 'd had the same year end exchange rate as we did in nineteen ninety one .
12 I 'm glad you 've made reference actually to that picture of the circles because I , I erm I came up with that after we 'd had the parish day and i you know , observing who was there on the parish day and then trying to see how , how we reach people and , and , and who were missing and how important was it that everybody should be there on parish day , and was n't it that people who are involved should be there on parish day because that 's a point at which erm you know parish council can meet those very people .
13 We thought we 'd had the last laugh when we got to the play-off finals against Charlton but he was an even bigger pain in the arse after that .
14 we 'd had the collection and then it was all choruses and then it was oh where were we , he 'd , then he 'd forgotten his glasses , could n't find his glasses , what page were we
15 I kept making the point on Saturday here at Lane Martin , that I did n't think that erm we 'd had the last of the goals as they kept er popping in at both ends , and I 'm sure though we 've had three with a little over half an hour played here , we have n't seen the last of the goals here either .
16 We appealed to have the contribution lowered and that has just been rejected so I 'm going to have to meet with my solicitor about that .
17 ‘ In most cases that we heard there was no real problem , but in some cases there was fire so we decided to have the recall as a purely precautionary move . ’
18 ‘ When The Group left , ’ says Nicky , ‘ we did have the problem of how to keep body and soul together .
19 This was the lake that we were going to spend our time on and although these lakes had n't been fished much we did have the benefit of some information given to us by Joe Taylor who had been out a few weeks prior to us .
20 They drive on the wrong side of the road for some considerable distance which actually amazes me , I 'm sitting there lawfully in the queue and someone comes whizzing by on the right er without any sight of the traffic coming the other way , er interestingly we did have the police er have had the police up there monitoring the situation .
21 They were not well off and they did n't welcome us because we had brought gifts they simply welcomed us because we had had the interest to go and see them and talk to them .
22 I 'll tell you a lovely story when we had the Queen at the day before when we had had the dress rehearsal I 'd been out to erm London to pick erm up an old lady who 's now dead , who very seldom got out and was pretty well house-bound to come and see the rehearsal as a little Sunday treat
23 The boys were big time , but we had to have the sound system , the lighting , the stage — everything had to move at the pace of David 's imagination .
24 ‘ When our two wee ones came along , we had to have the ixtra room , but I prefer the old part of the house .
25 We had to have the bridge by nightfall .
26 And er it took us a long time to get the special material because as you will gather , we tend to do everything properly , so we had to have the a cloth specially woven er handwoven of course and especially dyed and for once we had it especially fooled in other words the nap was raised .
27 well we had in the bank , we had calor gas lamps and when the power cut came we had to have the calor gas lamps on , and er , at night you 'd get home and you knew what area was going off at what time and you used to have to rush round , I remember once , it was going off about six and it went off early , it went off about five instead , and I 'd started cooking the tea , luckily got a gas cooker and this was at Abbott Road , it started
28 I 'm sure it was you who brought it , and we did n't open it because we were eating , we wanted to have the opposite colour to what you brought , that what you
29 We tended to have the same meal on the same day of the week : roast on Sunday , cold meat on Monday , a steak-and-kidney pie or pudding on Tuesday , stew on Wednesday , salt beef on Thursday , fish on Friday and toad-in-the-hole on Saturday .
30 We attempted to have the case tried in a Crown Court with a judge and jury but it seemed apparent to us , at our first appearance at the Magistrates Court , that every attempt was made , including the dropping of a crucial charge , to keep the case at that level .
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