Example sentences of "we have [verb] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was the first time we 'd returned to any location and I thought it must be a good sign .
2 If members would accept the additional resolution which stands in my name erm which reads this is what we 'd copied to all district councils and they would be made aware of the county council 's views on the matter .
3 I can understand er I mean we had some calls off er last week mainly because erm we we took we 'd spoken to those people before Christmas and we do expect people to drop out .
4 Look at what we 've done to each other , er , to ourselves , in the young , in nineteen hundred , eight percent of people had heart attacks , six percent strokes , cancer , four percent , total eighteen percent .
5 As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in
6 So that 's the way forward we hope to retain a sixteen page issue three times a year , a bit more thinking behind it and er hopefully produced at erm no extra cost to us , that 's why we 've gone to another supplier .
7 Is this the only response we 've had to that article ?
8 We had gotten to that section of the tune where it was obvious that we had played enough for the outro and I decided , off the top of my head , to start playing a song that I had started writing earlier in the week .
9 We had nodded to each other , but the near silence and the many people standing between us would have made conversation impolite .
10 We can not be accountable for the choices that our children are going to make , even though we have contributed to those choices .
11 ‘ There 's nothing we have to say to each other , ’ she protested with irritation , ‘ and I 'm not in the mood for any more of your accusations .
12 ‘ What can he imagine we have to say to each other ? ’
13 In order to show that there are differences in language , therefore , we have to listen to many hours of tape-recorded speech , select variables that we believe may pattern in some way , and quantify .
14 We have to listen to these views as well as to those who complain .
15 We have to listen to these views as well as to the views of those who have reservations .
16 We have applied to many sources of possible grant support for these costs , such as the Lingua Project , the DAAD and industry .
17 On the contrary , we have to assign to each level a peculiar time , relatively autonomous and hence relatively independent , even in its dependence , of the ‘ times ’ of the other levels …
18 We have to respond to these developments and it is being made clear now in public , that the Health and Safety Executive are giving every indication to employers that they are not going to rigorously enforce the law and indeed in the local authorities a leading figure there has said that they want to take a softly softly approach .
19 I mean it may well be that we have to resort to some sort of er
20 We have to come to some kind of deal with the trade unions in this complex interim period .
21 We have come to that stage now and the council has reached the conclusion that Mr Sugden 's proposition is the best on offer and we have no hesitation in recommending it to you . ’
22 We have come to this conclusion quickly .
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