Example sentences of "we [vb base] [vb pp] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 So we get involved quite a lot in looking at teaching in various parts of the university where people want us to , very often involving the students as well as the other teachers in looking at a particular course and seeing if there are ways in which perhaps it might be taught differently or in a way that worked better .
2 Erm I do recognise some faces , I know some of you recognise me and eh cos we 've done quite a lot of things together , but this afternoon what I 'm going to tell you about is how I fit in with Council , I do n't think any of you know that or know what the Local Government Unit is .
3 But at the moment , I can not speak with the same feeling of achievement about caring for er , elderly , the elderly relative , whereas I think I can say with conviction we 've done quite a lot for those with small children .
4 So how we , so there was no obvious leader and how are we gon na pull ourselves ah ahead , well we have to improve our media coverage and we 've done quite a lot on that , John 's been very successful in getting quite a lot of media coverage both for individuals within the firm and for the the firm as a whole .
5 We 've done quite an extensive survey around Ottery , looking at the times people use these facilities , and the weekends , especially Saturdays , is the favoured time .
6 And you know this brings another important aspect up which is very important about communications , erm you know we 've jollied along talking about what communication is making sure people know you know what you want etcetera etcetera etcetera but also do n't forget that different people can have different perceptions of the same same things but as I say here we are we sat here we done we 've done about an hour an hour and a half on written communications and yet you know when we passed the papers around it has n't been too bad but there has been different things that people have gone for both in the writing of these reports and both in the marking of them as well .
7 We 've seen quite a lot of completely sterile ears in winter barley , which is due to frost on secondary tillers .
8 We 've seen quite a lot of you lately . ’
9 We 've seen quite a dramatic increase this year .
10 Peach and cherry trees are out in blossom , and we 've seen quite a few birds .
11 Now as a result of that , we always recognize there will be a loss to Shropshire County Council , because we 've benefited from the previous distribution , and as far as we can see in real terms we 've lost about a hundred and thirty thousand as a result of that move of a specific grant into distribution through your revenue support grant .
12 So we 've discovered quite a lot about it all really but erm in the second stanza he says , through the window I see no star .
13 And Mr will know , that in fact we 've employed quite a few of his services and other services of the county council .
14 I think we 've , we 've said quite a bit about erm previously about the symbolism of , of a wedding , if
15 We 've heard quite a bit of it tonight .
16 and I , I mean I , I think we 've heard earlier a lot o , people who , people who 've who have become carers because they need that , they need to care for somebody , and they want that dimension in their life .
17 But it 's basically down on the down on the first floor , we 've set aside a a room which erm the people from the Occupational Health Centre here in Harlow , come up and do vision screening for us on a regular basis they come when do they come ?
18 We 've talked quite a bit about the , I suppose th th th the women 's side of er , of this programme 's title , what about the Scottish side ?
19 And I would say , in our school we 've had the Aids team in and we 've talked quite a lot about sex education and they 're still sniggering !
20 Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September .
21 We 've got just a bit of sun .
22 We 've got quite a haul .
23 The fact that the committee was not merely an hierarchical instrument of management , but represented all departments and a range of statuses , was also felt to be an advantage : Very luckily we 've got quite a few Scale 1 younger teachers , people with new ideas , possibly … and it 's taken up , quite well … it 's quite respected now .
24 erm on the next er , item er we have er on item ten we 've got the welfare rights and er advice and we 've got quite a long report which I hope you 'll agree is an excellent report , er and er Sue is here to present it .
25 So straight away you see what 's happened in this case his code becomes two eighty one H whereas previously we 've got quite a high code and yet his total income is er not er comparative to the change in code numbers and this is what has that effect , that all that tax on all this income has to be collected against his works pension , thereby causing a lot of confusion and difficulty for er people becoming retired .
26 So we 've got quite a , we know from this , that it 's roughly er cubic .
27 We 've got quite a mixture .
28 We 've got quite a few pupils in our school who will seize on anything like this as a means of causing friction between the various groups .
29 Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning .
30 We 've got erm yes we 've got quite a lot of land stock interest we might have accrued er and have n't , erm thirty million pounds in fact , but erm it has n't been accrued because in our view it 's some years off for being paid , but we think er or so I 'm informed by the Chairman of B-Sky-B er that things are going quite well
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