Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joe did n't speak again until we 'd finished the second stage . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Slide through an alleyway that seems to have history inscribed on its cobbled stones and we 've reached the first stop . |
| 4 | my Lord I think so yes , erm if I can just say this I understand on the structures that a letter has been , er , an offer has been made by a letter erm of the structure and obviously there would be and that , that was done I think some time ago , erm and it might be my Lord how to what sort of structure is , but , but , erm I think from our side , erm we , we 've taken the first step and we 're going |
| 5 | However , we 've got the next composite twenty four on part-time workers which is very important , and rights of work . |
| 6 | We 've spent the first month in our new house with an assortment of builders , damp-proofers , wood-wormers , plasterers , plumbers and painters . |
| 7 | And I would ask you to have regard to that erm when you look at the technical criteria which we 've spent the last couple of hours looking at . |
| 8 | He says thousands of families have already been thrown into chaos and we 've had the first suicide as a result of the operations of the Child Support Agency . |
| 9 | There was a sign up at the airport — John Wayne Airport , naturally — that read CALIFORNIA : WE 'VE HAD THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY HERE FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS . |
| 10 | We had reached the last door . |
| 11 | By the end of the lesson we had completed the sixth month . |
| 12 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
| 13 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |
| 14 | However , by the time we had spotted the first speck through our high-powered binoculars , the vulture was already descending . |
| 15 | Since the club 's formation in the 1930s we have reached the first round on no less than 42 occasions . |
| 16 | When each noun code is matched up with its appropriate argument ( e.g. when it is established that the boy is the agent , the girl the acted-upon , and the flower the instrument ) , we have reached the second level of representation of the sentence — functional-level representation . |
| 17 | We have reached the second round seven times and the third once . |
| 18 | For the journey we have selected the first class MS Caledonian Star , a perfect ship for such a journey , carrying a maximum of 150 passengers in absolute comfort — all cabins are outside with private facilities , one sitting restaurant , lounges and bars , lecture theatre and large sun decks with a swimming pool . |
| 19 | erm There they might have remained erm but erm a sensational discovery took place , which was during the Second World War , when , in the Blitz , a bomb actually hit the , the , the place of worship for the Muddletonians , where they were still worshipping though in very small number , and the man whom we have called the last Muddletonian , who was a farmer in Matfield in Kent , went out with his lorry — you remember petrol was rationed during the war , but he was allowed as a farmer — he took his fruit to Covent Garden , and then went to the smoking ruins of the Muddletonian worship , and filled his apple boxes with papers , and they remained there until the nineteen seventies . |
| 20 | For , once we have made the first approach to the Landshut Virgin and acquired a first set of impressions , the changeableness of the figure begins to work on us further , now less in the dimension of greater or lesser distance and more in the angle of view . |
| 21 | On May 18 Isa Kambarov , deputy leader of the Azerbaijani Popular Front , conceded that " we have lost the first stage of the war " . |
| 22 | Much work remains to be done , but we have achieved the first stage in gaining agreement to our approach in ensuring Hampshire 's future services . ’ |
| 23 | Coun. Michael Carr , leader of the borough council , said : ‘ We have entered the second round of City Challenge with the same enthusiasm with which we approached the first , and I hope we enjoy the same success . |
| 24 | In only a very few pages , we have left the twentieth century far behind and discovered that these two descend from the Lombardic heroes mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith ( Aelfwin and Eadwin ) ; and since Aelfvin means ‘ Elf-friend ’ , we are not surprised to find ourselves drifting further back to the times when elves still walked the earth , before Numenor ( the Atlantis of the Tolkien mythology ) had sunk beneath the waves . |
| 25 | We therefore apply ( 2 ) with unc This gives for the solution of ( 2 ) unc Since the columns and rows are arbitrary to a scalar multiplier , we may now write unc ( for simplicity of exposition we have multiplied the first column on the right by 3 ) . |
| 26 | For this reason we have marked the 2nd cello part to be played by one desk only ( i.e. two players ) if the orchestra is large , and one player only if it is small . |
| 27 | ‘ A lot of us have passed the first part of our exam , and are working on the second . |