Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You can see we 've made quite a saint out of your little Gabriel . ’
2 You see we 've got here a divergence of opinion immediately have n't we ?
3 No a bit bigger seems to me if we 'd moved up a bit we would have had a bit more room .
4 Up ahead Neil Coles was putting together a 66 , which eventually saw him tie with Johnny , but by the fifth or sixth , when we 'd picked up a couple of birdies to Johnny 's pars or bogey , I thought , ‘ This is our Open . ’
5 Appropriately enough for a photo session with one of the fittest men in the world — capable of dancing for hours without a break — we 'd taken over a corner of top London gym , The Peak , at the Hyatt Carlton Tower Hotel .
6 ‘ The high school I was at was among the first to have a tiny in-school radio station , news , views , interviews and a touch of music , and consequently we 'd attracted quite a bit of somewhat condescending attention from real stations around town .
7 Erm I do recognise some faces , I know some of you recognise me and eh cos we 've done quite a lot of things together , but this afternoon what I 'm going to tell you about is how I fit in with Council , I do n't think any of you know that or know what the Local Government Unit is .
8 But at the moment , I can not speak with the same feeling of achievement about caring for er , elderly , the elderly relative , whereas I think I can say with conviction we 've done quite a lot for those with small children .
9 So how we , so there was no obvious leader and how are we gon na pull ourselves ah ahead , well we have to improve our media coverage and we 've done quite a lot on that , John 's been very successful in getting quite a lot of media coverage both for individuals within the firm and for the the firm as a whole .
10 We 've seen quite a lot of completely sterile ears in winter barley , which is due to frost on secondary tillers .
11 We 've seen quite a lot of you lately . ’
12 Er we 've run up a cost of two hundred and fifty quid getting .
13 So we 've discovered quite a lot about it all really but erm in the second stanza he says , through the window I see no star .
14 We 've missed out a shot of Bernard which has to be done over Miriam 's shoulder — which is now 30,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean with the rest of her .
15 And er over the years we 've built up a reputation I know is is a genuine one say that because I know that you 're going to appreciate this course and I use the term very very particularly you will enjoy it .
16 Since then , in the last seven years , we 've built up a market of 50,000 tonnes of it at good prices , under the name ‘ Andricite ’ — from anhydride and JCI . ’
17 I think we 've , we 've said quite a bit about erm previously about the symbolism of , of a wedding , if
18 We 've heard quite a bit of it tonight .
19 and I , I mean I , I think we 've heard earlier a lot o , people who , people who 've who have become carers because they need that , they need to care for somebody , and they want that dimension in their life .
20 We 've set up a sub-group on child protection and invited schools to further training and seminars .
21 Because we 've set up a deal with that school
22 We 've , we 've soaked up a lot of pressure without having too many goal attempts at us , and then we 've broke away and scored two goals ; the plan 's worked a treat and I was due to do something right .
23 We 've talked quite a bit about the , I suppose th th th the women 's side of er , of this programme 's title , what about the Scottish side ?
24 And I would say , in our school we 've had the Aids team in and we 've talked quite a lot about sex education and they 're still sniggering !
25 I mean when he does his window displays you 've never seen anything like it , you know , so , I think he 's got quite er , he 's quite good at things like that , but erm , we 've tamed down a bit now .
26 We 've cleaned up a lot of parts of our city .
27 ‘ Few clients can give us a breakdown but historically we 've burnt up a lot of fuel .
28 WE 'VE lined up a host of money-saving offers to give you and the kids a day you 'll never forget .
29 We 've lined up a host of money-saving family days out at Britain 's fabulous theme parks — and you can cash in .
30 ‘ We had problems in the quality of their English but we 've brought in a dialogue coach , which has helped . ’
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