Example sentences of "we have [verb] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upon being introduced by the special needs coordinator as the new tutor to a group of students with severe learning difficulties , I heard several groans of ‘ Oh no , we thought we 'd got rid of you … ’ . |
| 2 | However , we also knew that we 'd got rid of Abed . |
| 3 | I reminded him of how we 'd got rid of Abed without any unpleasant repercussions , but he could n't accept it . |
| 4 | It has been a shareholder for a very long time in some private companies and I think we 've become known to be a supportive shareholder . |
| 5 | McCoist , who had taken over the captaincy from the injured Richard Gough , shrugged his shoulders and said : ‘ We 've grown used to all those injuries and learned to accept them . |
| 6 | What ab you know the posts that we 've got funded through Y T on action plans ? |
| 7 | But it just may be that now , when we 've got rid of so many wrong ideas , now , at last , is the moment when we might be able to frame — an answer . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But we 've got rid of that image here . ’ |
| 9 | As they got in , she said , ‘ I 'm so glad we 've got rid of that Christian guilt rubbish . |
| 10 | Well what 's happening is it the , during the war , right , we 're constraining the computer to estimate , like a single coefficient that is applicable to both war and peacetime er is n't the case , right , th there is a structural change , right , so when th when we constrain the computer to estimate the coefficients throughout the whole period , right , the coefficients are biased but if they do n't apply either to the post er pre war peacetime sample neither do they er fit very well to the data during the wartime , right , if we allow the intercept to change but we 're getting much better estimates both wartime and peacetime er parameter 's okay because we have n't got rid of , we 've got rid of that bias , right , in constraining the parameters to fit both wartime and peacetime er time periods . |
| 11 | Is that all we 've got left of the electric cable ? |
| 12 | well we can count the panelling that we 've got left over there , how many do we use a day ? |
| 13 | What we 've got left in the kitty is one thousand , no |
| 14 | My count at the moment , I reckon we 've got scattered round the countryside , ten thousand . |
| 15 | The first element of need is erm the various estimates of commitments of potential land , erm and the argument is , erm , that the additional requirement can actually be met within the inner area , now we covered that at some length this morning , and refer to what we 've had said on that in a bit , I do n't propose to repeat it . |
| 16 | And this , incident that we have , we 've had read for us by er the two Pats earlier on in , from John chapter four , it 's a , it 's a very beautiful account of our Lord 's dealings with this particular lady , this samaritan woman . |
| 17 | Well it 's very sad when people have unhappy relationships as we 've had described to us . |
| 18 | It was achieved , erm , through reorganisation , it was achieved through careful planning of expenditure , but there was also an element of of luck in that erm , the staff vacancy level that we had pending the reorganisation , was was higher than we had had planned for . |
| 19 | What if we had 've won like fourteen nil ? |
| 20 | Further , since the previous examination record of the majority of our students was the minimum required , we could anticipate few B.Ed candidates — even if students ' response to what we had to offer proved to be very satisfactory indeed . |
| 21 | We had to get rid of them they were nearly collapsing |
| 22 | Because the European Community have been heavily heavily subsidising its farmers right , they were having in order farmers were too successful , we 've had wine lakes , we had erm er butter mountains , we had to get rid of that , that was subsidised on the world market , as a result of that world market prices would come down right and that induced the agricultural government sorry the er American government to support its agriculture right and these chaps estimate that nearly half of the support given to the U S farmers merely offset their losses caused by essentially European Community and Japan subsidising their farmers . |
| 23 | I do not speak of the substance of the matter because so many of us have some doubts about the substance of it and we shall come to that later , but erm it does seem to me that er we had to get rid of erm sections two , two A and three of the Police Act nineteen sixty four as amended and that clearly doing so here and erm er er I I think that this is an improvement as a result on the laws that er present appears on the Statute Book . |
| 24 | Gardiner said to have said we had to get rid of him . |
| 25 | We had come armed with maps and information from birding friends , and this spot was marked with a cross indicating it was a good place for waders . |
| 26 | I do not mean that they do not differentiate between dog and man , only that we have become integrated into their already existing , instinctive mental-behavioural patterns . |
| 27 | I took that as a compliment — a sign that we have become accepted as part of everyday ( country ) life . |
| 28 | This question was supposed to be about the Baltic states , but as we have become hooked on gold , I think that we had better have the answer . |
| 29 | We are stowed away on Curve 's tour bus — for YOU , for death , for glory , for kicks — for a brace of early Rollercoaster rides , and , in a very short time indeed , we have become disfigured by the spirit of rock ‘ n ’ roll — which is n't I WILL , it is I KILL . |
| 30 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |