Example sentences of "[verb] we have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are even special joys for women : the pride in learning a guaranteed way to keep the boots dry which , if performed behind waist-high bush , means ‘ you can casually and with dignity intact carry on a conversation with the rest of the camp ’ ; no more of the old ‘ search for a place to hide ( God forbid anyone should know we have to pee in the first place ) . ’ |
| 2 | We mistake it for reality because we are so involved , so lost in the illusion , so absorbed by the drama , that we forget we have chosen to be here , that we are willing participants in an elaborate stage production . |
| 3 | I think he had a little bit of ill health and my immediate superior took over as Traffic Superintendent and he was there throughout the war and when I came out he was my boss and er you see and er and then in nineteen forty eight was made Transport Manager , because as you say we had to split from Electric Supply and he carried on until erm nineteen seventy two and erm , we had government reorganization and erm they did away with people like the Town Clerk and Transport Manager and erm erm was retired , early retirement , the same as the Town Clerk and erm they brought in a General Manager from away and brought in more staff with him and that was came in and er so I then applied for the position , which was going , there was , there was Traffic Superintendent was going er Chief Administration Officer , Chief Engineer and erm er Bodywork Maintenance Superintendent . |
| 4 | But as the water rose we had to break through the roof to escape . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ She 'll be delighted to know we 've come across each other , ’ he said , speaking through the open window . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , me dad always says we 've got to be obligin' . ’ |
| 7 | He says we 've got to be on the road by nine o'clock at the latest . ’ |
| 8 | He says no , he says we 've thought about it , I says well you really ought to have it I says if you 're dial dialling a lot of erm , cos they dial a lot of these insurance companies and er mortgage lenders , the head offices , they 're always out in Ottingham , I said the Mercury pin number only cost you seven pound fifty a year , I says you think you can save that in a week so er ha so erm he was on about it , he says who 's the cheapest for that ? |
| 9 | Thérèse said : the Church says we have to pray for the Jews to be converted to the one true faith . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd already decided we have to check on him closely . |
| 11 | I imagine we 've got at least an hour before any more humans come , and it 's not a lot different to a truck . ’ |
| 12 | the staff somewhere and we , we came in here and of course most of the people eventually had families and er they moved out to bigger accommodation as their families grew up , you know , er , we were very pleased to get the house of course because we 'd we 'd lived in this Nissan hut for er either one or two years but it did |
| 13 | But we you know , one was one would be boiling the the white metal , we 'd we 'd fixed on the and er one would be boiling and pouring the stuff and the other cutting y you know breaking up the the mould sort of thing and piling the stuff out and as fast as we were piling them up , some beggar was creeping in and stealing them . |
| 14 | Hope we 've finished with the snow now |
| 15 | We hope we have contributed to the debate surrounding human aggression in a constructive and novel way ; and that we have raised some questions surrounding a number of basic notions that have remained unexamined by both the scientific and lay communities . |
| 16 | I hope we have succeeded in appointing a Project Manager and will be able to get him here to start work sooner rather than later . |
| 17 | Yes erm they 're not they 're not add additional representations , they 're not additional to anything that I 've said we 've heard during the enquiry . |
| 18 | We greatly value all the prayer support we have had in the past and would continue to seek your prayers for the way forward and that those who come along and do n't know Christ may find him . |
| 19 | ‘ As we move into independence , we will be conscious of the help and support we have had from the LEA . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , yes , I must admit , ’ replies management , ‘ that I am making a good thing out of this , the best break we have had for years — you see , my methods of production are so cheap and efficient . ’ |
| 21 | I seemed to recall that in the past when we 'd met we 'd got on reasonably well , so I assumed that it must have been something that Jennifer had told you that had turned you against me , or , failing that , that you were just embarrassed at having to work with your sister 's ex-fiancé . ’ |
| 22 | 5-in-a-row is the best run we have had under Wilko . |
| 23 | Yeah but we 've had we 've had times before Peter when there 's been huge pressure . |
| 24 | A further consequence of having time zones is that , when we travel we have to adjust to local time in the new time zone . |
| 25 | The Danakil guide we had acquired at Bilen had tried to bolt on the march , so I detailed two soldiers to guard him till dawn . |
| 26 | Erm Owen was told we 'd got to . |
| 27 | How did you realize we 'd gone across so early . |
| 28 | we 've got we 've worked for . |
| 29 | Could I tell your listeners a little bit about the good news that 's in the budget , because we 've talked we 've focused on the minuses so far , but there 's a lot of plusses as well . |
| 30 | Er whatever reasons people give we have to accept as reasonable reasons . |