Example sentences of "we have [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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
2 But we nearly fainted when we asked which cottage — it was the one we 'd just moved out of ! —
3 stayed and Andy 's and we 'd just gone over to the shops and .
4 A portion of the top floor we 'd completely sealed off with walls of polythene sheeting , and a powerful dehumidifier had been installed .
5 could we have possibly started out with not to give us exactly this cos it 's too it 's too much to find
6 Incidentally , it does n't include the disposal of Smithmark We 've also er we 've also gone in for other cost reduction exercises , for instance at er Dalton with a review of warehousing and distribution er , we should save about a million pounds in a full year and we 've been ramming home to our chief executives the need for annual payroll reviews to be geared to the profitability of the company rather than t rather than to the rate of inflation er , or even , er in , even the market place .
7 And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet .
8 We 've just come back from Chile , where chemical pollution , factory fishing , and poverty are the everyday reality facing fishermen , slowly destroying their ability to make a living and support their families .
9 Tell them we 've just come back from that .
10 Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years .
11 York 's a historic city of some hundred and four thousand people , covering some two thousand nine hundred hectares , but that city itself is only part of the settlement that I think we would all regard as as York itself , that covers a larger population of some a hundred and thirty five thousand people , er contained er within the York outer ring road , and referenced to the the map submitted with my H One submission , and also the greenbelt plan which we 've we 've just put up on the board there , er will show you the the broader extent of the urban area .
12 We 've just got back from Southampton , ’ said my mother , as though this circumstance presented a total barrier to further movement .
13 Well it , it 's been stupid this laid on this settee falling down back , it 's blinking ridiculous , yeah , we 've just got back from hospital and they 'll send her a letter for er , to make an appointment for her to go back , to see what the treatment they 're gon na give her , so , will it go in Pete 's car ?
14 We 've simply run out of time in trying to reach an agreement with all concerned ’ said tournament director , Alex Meyer-Wolden , who nevertheless remains hopeful that he will be able to stage a mixed event in 1992 .
15 There 's been no government erm We 're now what happens is every now and then like now we just simply run out of money I mean we 've simply run out of money .
16 So I think the seminar itself was n't giving you much new stuff , it was stuff that we 've already picked up in the course .
17 But that is quite useful to show what we 've already paid out to women ,
18 We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think .
19 We 've now moved on in part of question your question five B and erm in my response to that I 'm suggesting , and I hope it 's not just semantics , picking up the point made just before we broke for coffee , is that there 's all sorts of things called the countryside , and this policy is is directed at the open countryside .
20 Mind you we 've now caught up with some more traffic which is going even more slowly .
21 And we 've deliberatly gone along with local wishes to avoid going through Buscot itself
22 ‘ They know we 've always gone out with more than one of them and they 've always accepted it .
23 shall we go and buy you some juice okay , cos we 've really ran out of juice this morning did n't he ?
24 ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn .
25 On 4 May 1987 a bank holiday Monday , we had just settled down to lunch before watching A Man for all Seasons .
26 In effect this was a period of withdrawal from a rigidly structured police world to a world turned upside down ; where , in a ‘ counter-cultural ’ way , we were to find that the strict terms of reference we had carefully built up over the years no longer seemed to have relevance .
27 ‘ New linguistics ’ , for us , included books on English by , , and ; but at that time we had not caught up with the new developments associated with .
28 The fact of the matter is , if we had not got on to the High Street , it would have been very difficult to justify our coming to Stockton .
29 ‘ I wish we had never come back to this house .
30 When I told him we had recently come up from Southampton he said , " Gee , I would n't go to sea in that little tub for double my wages . "
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