Example sentences of "we have [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd film for 12 hours , then we 'd watch an hour or two . |
| 2 | Do we have competition for our Pest Control Services ? |
| 3 | But erm along with that I 'm a naturalist and erm the place is big enough , we can we have scope for leaving area to revert to nature , which we 're tying to do . |
| 4 | Ca n't we have porridge for a change ? |
| 5 | Can we have approval for that er expenditure then ? |
| 6 | What are we having cake for ? |
| 7 | Arthur Schopenhauer ( 1788–1860 ) accuses him of holding that animals are mere things : ‘ Thus only for practice are we to have sympathy for animals ’ ( Regan and Singer 1976 : 125 ) . |
| 8 | I would like to think that we 've pass for two hundred and fifty , subject to Trevor being satisfied . |
| 9 | We had haggis for supper that night . |
| 10 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 11 | We had respect for our parents , police and clergy . |
| 12 | We had time for a short walk on a rocky path before I had to return to Athens . |
| 13 | Arriving there at ll.3Oam we had time for a browse around before our Ploughman 's lunch , after which we watched a delightful display of flying owls . |
| 14 | We had time for a couple of runs through and set up the tape recorders ( I took two in case of trouble ! ) and by 10 a.m. we were all standing in our place s — white skirts dazzling and hearts beating fast — waiting for the signal to start . |
| 15 | ‘ We have talking for a long time about how the company might change structurally , and many of Alan Gordon Walker 's proposals would have left me with a job that I did n't want to do , ’ she said . |
| 16 | But guilt is also within us — it is our feeling , realistic or not , that we have responsibility for a specific or amorphous offence against humanity or God . |
| 17 | Well , by all means , let's do that , and has been represented in committee for some time , we have responsibility for licenses for some time , and if there is n't a dialogue now , then there 'll be a good reason why there is n't , and I , I take what you say , Liz . |
| 18 | We have reverence for titles instilled in us when we are small : many of us have a slightly different response to a ‘ Dr ’ than we do to a ‘ Ms ’ , ‘ Mrs ’ or ‘ Mr ’ . |
| 19 | But it is from after the change that we have evidence for Councillors like Kleon and the fourth-century Athenian Demosthenes whose year on the Council fell at improbably convenient moments for their political careers ; this makes one suspect corruption , a suspicion strengthened by Aischines ' direct accusation that Demosthenes bribed his way onto the Council in 346 ( iii.62 ) . |
| 20 | Surviving written texts thus reflect ( directly or indirectly ) the concerns of a much larger proportion of the population than we have evidence for in the period before the ninth century . |
| 21 | ‘ We have company for the day , ’ he added , and Candace pouted coyly . |
| 22 | Members ' news items are relatively scarce , so please do n't be shy , we have space for your own special story of what , how and why … |
| 23 | We have money for clothes , the housekeeping , for paying the mortgage or rent , the house bills , car , holidays . |
| 24 | Above all , we have room for everyone . |
| 25 | Or would it , by some miracle , say , ‘ Yes , we approve of your credentials , yes , we have room for you in our summer classes , yes , yes , we want you … ’ ? |
| 26 | Oh , so now we have time for the exhibition ? thought Jay . |
| 27 | ‘ We have time for one quick prayer to Rogal Dorn . ’ |
| 28 | We have time for several questions , I wonder if you 'd be kind enough |
| 29 | And er , on that message , er , it seems , er good enough time to say that 's er , all we have time for as far as the phone calls are concerned on the Breakfast Call this morning . |
| 30 | Erm , what happens of course , is th that the lecture is brilliantly delivered , er , but , but , what happens is he , the chauffeur finishes two minutes early and the chairman , being excellent as a Chairperson , actually says , we have time for just one question , and er , someone stands up and asks the most dreadful question from the audience , and er , the chauffeur listens to the question , thinks , and th then says , that 's questions very easy , very easy indeed , that question is so easy , I 'm going to ask my chauffeur who is sitting at the back of the room |