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

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1 ‘ We are happy to support local schemes which wo n't worsen our mainstream business , and while hitherto we 've waited for passenger executives or consortiums to come to us with a proposal , we might in the future consider taking more initiative . ’
2 Then suddenly we had to leave for London , so I suppose the call-up people did n't know where I was .
3 Quite suddenly we had driven into soft , damp sand , grey and treacherous .
4 It 's an important question , because unless we remember the past , we 'll forget how much we have achieved during the last years .
5 What is becoming increasingly evident is how much we have to learn from dolphins — and how much they may have to teach us .
6 To a very large extent the way our primary schools develop in the future will be a comment on how much we have learned from the largely fruitless traditionalist v progressive debate of the '60s and '70s .
7 Naturally we 've talked about the investigation . ’
8 In erm Romans chapter three and verse twenty seven it says that er Jesus died for our sins and I 'd just like to leave this thought with you , that n er just like me , when I could have died the other week in that plane crash , that none of us knows how long we 've got on this life and , however long or short it is , there 's no time like the present to get right with God if you , if you are n't and the only way to do that is through Jesus .
9 For too long we have lived with no expectation of renewal , or growth , or power .
10 For too long we have sat on the fence regarding when a lone rescuer should leave a collapsed victim to seek medical help .
11 ‘ Or perhaps we 've strayed into a black hole , ’ Philip Swallow continues , evidently enchanted with his flight of astronomical fancy .
12 Perhaps we have achieved in our landscape what we deserve .
13 Perhaps we have to reckon with an element of chance .
14 Perhaps we have hit on the real reason for scheduling … land ear-marked for government use but no one else 's ?
15 perhaps we have to look at the societal thing in that there 's something very macho seen as macho about football in Scotland which is stand on the terraces with a short sleeve shirt in zero degrees and having someone urinate down your leg and
16 I can understand that obviously we 've got to be cautious about that sort of thing .
17 " We can go on watching the place — obviously we 've got to .
18 But obviously we 've got to be very careful about looking at actual work carried out , bearing in mind that is
19 As the car chugged down the M1 motorway I stopped cursing my bad luck and thought of how we could have made the first descent if only we had concentrated on the job in hand and not got the press involved or told so many people all about our daring endeavour .
20 I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship .
21 Don was low , little more than bare bones , and there was no point in fishing for salmon ; so we had decided to trout fish .
22 We used to call it higher education , and erm so we had to deal with the , the Lowestoft Grammar School in the same way as we did with the other schools and also with the erm Technical Institute which was at Lowestoft , that was the only erm purpose-built erm centre for further education in the , in the county at that time .
23 Dr so we had to respond to that , and we responded in a number of ways .
24 So we had gotten to be friends and it stayed like that . ’
25 So we had to wait for the next bus , which was six o'clock .
26 So we had to go to the park where we had met under the protective shade of a friendly tree .
27 So we had to go to pictures and we had to have a few or whatever .
28 So we had to go through a whole charade of auditioning a second guitarist .
29 So we had to go past this little shed which is right up right up this stupid grass earthy bank right over the side so we could see quickly how to get in .
30 Everybody w looking but when my father and all was there , there was nine then so there was more so we had to go in th in that big room there and eat off the table there then .
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