Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] we have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For 30 years we have asked for it to be culverted and we have been promised that it will be done . |
| 2 | ‘ After extensive enquiries we 've decided there is n't enough evidence to proceed with a prosecution , ’ an NRA spokeswoman said yesterday . |
| 3 | After six months we had made such a success of our little business that we took on a fourth girl and moved into the garage , as we now needed more space . |
| 4 | And so me brother and I , who was a twin , were put into the choir as probationers , like today 's police force , and after twelve months we 'd passed all the necessary tests for the vicar and became chororists with the choir and graduated through it . |
| 5 | I ve just checked the stats … after 9 games we had won 5 , drawn 4 ( 19 pts ) . |
| 6 | For such customers we have listed the properties of the most popular Matroc materials . |
| 7 | For such patients we have adopted a policy of exercise testing on the one hand to convince them that they can often do a lot more than they feel like doing , and on the other hand to pick up the occasional patient who has severe residual ischaemia but is not declaring it . |
| 8 | The theological term for this is analogia fidei ; that is to say , when we talk of eternal verities we have to resort to pictures , stories and other analogical expressions . |
| 9 | ‘ There are a lot of exciting things we have got lined up which we were not going to launch until we launched Taurus , but we will come out with these products . |
| 10 | It 's telling us how many sets of different things we 've got . |
| 11 | You do n't have to be aggressive to be assertive , look at some of these comments we 've got here how confident you are in yourself and how you put your point across . |
| 12 | It would be unfair to say that the landscape was featureless geology has provided some outstanding , literally outstanding , items of topography , yet they are far flung and , in general , the landscape components are not keen to assemble themselves into the kind of artistic compositions we have grown used to . |
| 13 | To make use of experimental scripts we had sold an idea to the national programme moguls in Toronto for a weekly ‘ Producers ’ Workshop ’ . |
| 14 | Here , Debbie 's put together a sample of points raised in some of those letters we 've received . |
| 15 | You know damn well I 've never blamed you for what happened that night ; it was one of those risks we had to take . |
| 16 | I had witnessed Sister Kenny 's unusual treatment when I went to see her at work at Queen Mary 's Hospital for Children in Carshalton , one of several hospitals we had visited during our advanced student days . |
| 17 | We must have done because they talked , as we drove , of common friends we had had at that time , but I remembered none of them — or only a name , here and there . |
| 18 | I would be fed into the police computer , where it would join the details already stored by the hundreds of other crossings we had made . |
| 19 | Following the popularity of recent competitions we have run offering riding clothes as prizes , we have arranged another super , easy-to-enter competition this month with fabulous riding gear from Hydrophane . |
| 20 | As we descended it became increasingly hot , and in the space of two hours we had dropped from rolling grassy hills to a sandy , semi-desert plain . |
| 21 | Different ages , different ways of life … reasons enough for the variety of co-ordinated options we have to offer at Allied . |
| 22 | I 've lost count of the number of late-night movies we 've watched in this way or the number of dawns we 've seen together . ’ |
| 23 | ( With handing-in on paper for large courses we have found a need to issue paper receipts to help resolve cases where students ' work has allegedly been lost or mislaid . ) |
| 24 | And for three decades we 've given our clients a process for better decision making and problem solving up and down the organization . |
| 25 | My own ruse was to ‘ swap ’ credit cards with an equally debt-ridden friend ; for three months we had to travel halfway across London to retrieve our own card and ask ‘ permission ’ before making a purchase ! |
| 26 | ‘ For 21 years we have immunised 93,000 children in Bangladesh , planted 1.1m tree seedlings in Ethiopia , provided clothing and food for 400,000 people in Mozambique and helped over 100,000 children in India gain literacy skills . |
| 27 | Moreover , for these firms we have confined our analysis to their Scotch Whisky business . |
| 28 | Like many organisations we have to review our costs very carefully and I doubt the increase from £12 to £25 could be approved . |
| 29 | Instead the orbs had sunk back and there was a darkness to the face , a suppressed despair , even an agitation that spoke of tedious things , so unlike those experiences we had laughed over in the past . |
| 30 | However , readers can take some comfort from the fact that for 18 months we have produced every word of a 16 page newsletter on a PC in WordPerfect , yet done all the page makeup on a Macintosh . |