Example sentences of "we have [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.

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1 By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry .
2 By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic !
3 Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop
4 We 'd kept it in cash .
5 In Ireland last week , we were accused of writing a ‘ dirty ’ book for vulgar gain ( would it have been any better if we 'd done it for charity ? ) and worse , of racism .
6 He was obviously peeved that we 'd squared it with the music teacher while he did n't know anything about it .
7 Er and that er in my view anyway demonstrated that we 'd got it about right in terms of our assessment of the effects of the Southern Bypass .
8 Even though we 'd sold it for a ridiculously low .
9 If we 'd left it to the day we 'd have been sunk !
10 You could say well , Jackie took this and you got one leg on this table shorter than the other legs and we 've jammed it under there levels the table up .
11 And look what we 've filled it with … aeroplanes , French cheese , the ozone layer , English beef , inner city decay , motorbikes , cholesterol , microlights …
12 And it 's already I mean we 've we 've kept it in prime condition , painted with company colours .
13 I said Freda they says yes we 've named it after you because we like you .
14 The England captain said : ‘ We 've done it despite a lot of injuries and we 've been without Mark Waugh for the last six matches because he 's with the Australian team in Sri Lanka .
15 and then Ann started that little line trussing you see , so we 've done it between us but I 've got a thousand to do and she 's got about four d t
16 We 've done it for years , even won the FA Cup , but I do n't now how long I can go on .
17 For example if you had the London Mozart players here as we frequently did and frequently played to full houses , then even with a hundred percent house there was a subsidy required of something like seven or eight pounds per seat , in order to meet the cost of presenting that particular concert and we 've done it for years but sadly when we had to make cuts that was one of things the board decided they had to cut up they had to save money somehow .
18 But banks unfortunately do charge , negotiating fee and then interest at exciting rates , erm solicitors will do it sometimes , we 've done it for clients where we know that it 's not too large an amount and we know that there are assets easily obtained because that way the client saves the banks administration fee .
19 would also recognise that we 've done it with her not purely and simply just because we 've been down .
20 We 've done it at work
21 It 's been enormously successful because we 've done it on an activist basis so that activists have met one another , all those prejudices and all those stereotypes have immediately vanished as soon as people have stayed in one another 's homes and realized that people have the same problems , they have the same , they have the same problems and the same difficulty er as difficulties as we do .
22 For page one three four and T U P E , yes , well we have done quite an extensive document , there 's been a lot done about T U P E in the public sector we 've done it in the government sector and given guidelines , and T U P E , while it is like you rightly say , a step forward , it 's not the total answer we need something better , but it does level out the playing field that the cowboys can find it difficult in and we as a union are advocating to our members where there is a transfer taking place , whether there 's a change to your employment challenge it and we will support that challenge with the necessary legal interpretation if so .
23 I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion
24 Alright if we 've done it in this quarter
25 We do see the problems we 've seen it at both ends the goalkeepers have when people chase a lost cause like Rozario 's just done there .
26 Yes , we 've seen it on TV but — oh , dear — we ca n't remember the figures .
27 We 've seen it on T V
28 We 've seen it on T V , and now it half past three Come on !
29 We 've seen it in the er erm broadsheet up-market papers .
30 There 's always lots of action tho' football is a plus , We 've never been to Wembley but we 've seen it from a bus .
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