Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] at " in BNC.

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1 He never dreamt that we would go to witness the execution or , even if we did , would get close enough to realise the man being burnt at the stake was not the same person we 'd questioned at Newgate .
2 The women began to congregate and we rose to greet each other , even though we 'd met at breakfast less than an hour ago .
3 We 'd called at a house to install some concrete steps in the rear garden , and learnt that they had been burgled the previous night .
4 We 'd alighted at Kirkby Stephen 's spruce little station , 19 miles down the line , especially to bag supper at the Horseshoe .
5 Er and erm we did for that er report er as indeed in fact we had earlier in any event , we 'd looked at them separately , we have n't simply put in an orbital route , we had assessed in the traffic model er as separate schemes .
6 For lunch we had damp oat-cakes we 'd bought at the village shop .
7 We 'd started at the same time .
8 We 'd arrived at the zoo .
9 We 've waited at least five years to see the project .
10 We 've waited at St Albans .
11 I mean , we 've been all round but the last three years we 've stayed at Carlton
12 We 've implored at public meetings all along that nobody takes the law into their own hands .
13 We er we ca n't got to bed until we 've done at least five .
14 we done all that erm Wa , Walkman all that sort of thing we 've done at one time or other .
15 One of my main concerns is nursery-school education , and I wonder if we 've progressed at all from Margaret Thatcher 's quote in 1972 : ‘ Within the next 10 years nursery education should become available without charge … ‘
16 and we knew him quite well because er before we moved , my parents moved to Debenham , we 've lived at Trimley and he lived erm well next door but one to us and er so we knew Mr quite well .
17 say to them erm we 've not , we 've decided at the moment , or we 've not as yet decided to go ahead with the appointment , but when we do
18 Now we 've worried at this , what have we got ?
19 Oh god ! what do you think we 've burnt at home .
20 Erm so in in broad terms the master plan is is unchanged in concept but we think improved in detail the is the other thing at each end erm represents on the left hand side er , what is currently Honey Hill I believe the name may be changed in due course erm and those behind me here are the houses on the Fern Hill side and then , although some of you will have difficulty seeing it at the moment , at the bottom there are detailed drawings showing the internal arrangement of the houses and flats and , and detailed drawings of the elevations with dimensions , so one can have a have a bit of a feel for the the sort of space standards that we 've aimed at , but there are in fact , furniture plans shown on the drawings .
21 Utilities Xtradrive is one of those bits of software you can install and forget — in every test we 've thrown at it , it has been totally transparent to the user — but even so , there are some interesting utilities included with it .
22 Compatibility With the exception of certain disk-fiddling utilities , as previously mentioned , Xtradrive exists very happily with everything we 've thrown at it , and has not yet provided any cause for palpitations or sticky moments of any description .
23 That 's that 's right , I mean I I I would suggest that we 've arrived at that point now , and we 're increasingly likely to do so , because as we 've already heard York is very constrained , it 's it 's it 's a relatively small , compact , historic city , the greenbelt boundaries are drawn fairly tightly , correctly in so in in my opinion , and there 's really not much room for manoeuvre within with er in a existing settlements within the greenbelt .
24 It might be say at equal opportunities which we 've worked at a very great deal over the last year .
25 ‘ Just one of the many minor niggling problems we 've got at the moment is that there 's no hot water in the kitchen , ’ said Pat .
26 Well , all that , all we 've got at the moment Alan is a list of things that we feel should be in there
27 Erm I think that Vince has raised of very personal questions that we have ask about this erm the question of local accountability of the health authority board that will be created by this the to service this new joint health authority , would in fact , be the size of the existing one for West Essex and we would ha , have only a third of the representation that we currently have the whole of West Essex we 'll only have two non- executive members on the health authority board and I do n't think that that is terribly accountable but certainly a considerable reduction on what we 've got at the moment .
28 I must admit , some of you probably were brought up on Meccano , and certainly not in the mo mo more sophisticated technology we 've got at the moment , but the point is , a lot of these have n't really seen this part of what I call the basic technology itself and er , it was interesting because we were trying to build up some kind of game for their summer fair and the game was quite obviously er , you know er propel a ping-pong into a er series of slots with er , bit like bingo to a certain extent , where you can actually er give prizes for the various holes you could actually penetrate and things like that .
29 And perhaps the biggest draw back we 've got at the moment that to ge , become a chartered engi engineer you 've got ta have a degree !
30 ‘ But he 's all we 've got at the moment . ’
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