Example sentences of "we 've " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It comes down to applying a judgement based on the background knowledge we 've acquired from 30 years of monitoring and reporting human rights ’ . |
| 2 | Now , what we 've got here is a lump of wood roughly the same shape trying to be a cricket bat , and if you hit a ball with it , the ball will travel about ten feet and you will drop the bat and dance about shouting ‘ Ouch ! ’ with your hands stuck into your armpits . |
| 3 | We 've plunged in with the practical details rather than training itself . |
| 4 | We did Decadence in London and America together — and we 've made a film for Channel 4 television . |
| 5 | We both wanted to win , I said , and now we 've been saved from temptation . |
| 6 | We 've known each for long enough to know that silence is better if there is nothing specific to say . |
| 7 | We need to realize what we 've done to other species . |
| 8 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Nonsense , Ethel , ’ said Cook ‘ We 've never had murder in this house . ’ |
| 10 | Arthur said he 'd never had their second message , and the fuss all died down , but he 's always come when we 've sent for him . ’ |
| 11 | We 've got enough troubles of our own in Calleshire . ’ |
| 12 | Also , I hope we 've caught the wit and wisdom of Roddy Doyle 's original novel . |
| 13 | I think we 've a pretty good case though — the Renaissance has three people . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've never had a woman on the staff before , ’ he informed me ( forgetting the cleaners and caterers ) . |
| 15 | She blew it and at least we 've given her somewhere out of the cold . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've so many friends in common , that 's the problem . |
| 17 | Yes , we 've been expecting you . |
| 18 | We 've been so worried about you ! |
| 19 | We 've been really worried about you , you know . ’ |
| 20 | The Senate wants to merge us into University College and we 've been told we 'll have to get rid of some of our staff — it may all be very neat and tidy for the bureaucrats , but it 's going to be absolutely disastrous for some people . |
| 21 | ‘ Someone has left us a private house in Colchester in their will and we 've decided to use it as a training house . |
| 22 | They have to keep a logbook but that 's only a check to make sure that nobody 's leaving a mess in the common areas and we only have it because we 've found that some residents can have problems because they 've become deskilled in certain things . |
| 23 | If you 've snapped up one our handsome binders you 'll find , towards the end of the year , that because we 've been able to pack so many pages into Britain 's newest , brightest gardening magazine , things are getting , well , rather full . |
| 24 | We 've asked Ken Muir , of the famous fruit nursery , to select eight varieties of strawberry for the test . |
| 25 | We 've planted several different kinds in drifts under a beech hedge . |
| 26 | We 've very great expectations of a brand new pansy , an F1 hybrid called ‘ Imperial Gold Princess ’ with enormous scarlet blotches over deep yellow petals . |
| 27 | ‘ Look , Jay , ’ she says , all bright and brisk , like there was a fascinating bird on the windowsill she just had to show me , ‘ we 've got to cool it . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Loon , we 've always touched . |
| 29 | ‘ I think we 've all depressed ourselves stupid . |
| 30 | What do I do now , thought Jay , we 've re-run Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf , and what do I do now ? |