Example sentences of "we have [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And something 's changed in the intervening time , I mean I know there 's aggravation and times are hard , I know we 've cut back on the hours and the rest , but there 's a lot of things that are n't good . |
| 2 | Well , in actual fact we 've cut down on the boxing bit |
| 3 | Now , as we 've said earlier on the Holy Spirit works in the new birth and it is through the work of the Holy Spirit that we come to know God . |
| 4 | We had to sit outside on the front steps , which were also white . |
| 5 | On the far side of it stood a village of longhouses , much like the ones we had left back on the coast , except that these were entered by round doors instead of the normal rectangular ones . |
| 6 | We have to rely simply on the speculation that we hear . |
| 7 | Second Lieutenant Campana , whom we have seen earlier on the Mort Homme , recalls dispatching a ration party of eight men one night in March . |
| 8 | We have concentrated here on the formal institutions of government and the political culture context , but there are other constraints on presidential power . |
| 9 | It is time to recognise the last three phases — currently we have concentrated primarily on the first phase . |
| 10 | In our discussion so far we have concentrated particularly on the physical context in which single utterances are embedded and we have paid rather little attention to the previous discourse co-ordinate . |
| 11 | By imagining these two kinds of plant , we have zeroed in on the crucial difference between a bottlenecked and an unbottlenecked life cycle . |
| 12 | We have remarked already on the ‘ traditional ’ case of pupil theories of school discipline . |
| 13 | Mike lives in Manchester ; we have remarked before on the impressive group of military historians produced by that city . |