Example sentences of "we have [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd saved for it , taken enormous care in choosing the location , even-God spare us in our mortal error-looked forward to the holiday . |
| 2 | We 'd been prepared to buy houses with flaws invisible to the naked eye , but now we 'd fallen for one with all its flaws only too obviously visible . |
| 3 | When we had an exchange visit from ICI operators at Billingham , they were surprised to learn that their safety suits contained materials which we 'd made from their phenol , ’ said Bob Hodson . |
| 4 | ‘ I asked ( I was trying to fit in what we 'd heard of him ) about his having passed out of the Ecole Normale so high , which had rather impressed me . |
| 5 | So whatever we , we 'd said to her she was coming back all the time was n't she ? |
| 6 | We 'd rowed about it endlessly , but I was quite determined . |
| 7 | Eight weeks later Dad went home to Hull , took one look at the nice convalescent home we 'd booked for him and said , ‘ I 'm buggered if I 'm staying in here . |
| 8 | After we 'd finished with it , the heart lay on a stained bed of newspaper for the rest of the day , reduced to an unpromising dinner . |
| 9 | Ed King was busily erecting the cage we 'd had in Covent Garden ; it was proving to be worth every penny of the £250 we 'd paid for it . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought we 'd agreed on it . |
| 11 | Worst of all , we lost the special chemistry we 'd had with her there . |
| 12 | Well they I I tell you this they they we 'd worked for him for er good many years and there was no talk of any cuts in wages , we had this wages all through the through these years , and everybody was happy with it . |
| 13 | I told him that we had but that we 'd talked about it with them and now things seemed all right . |
| 14 | I We 'd talked about it and said Well , we 're not going to get married whilst war 's on , as er probably the generation before , had said in nineteen fourteen , and er we got married eventually on the first of December , nineteen forty . |
| 15 | That disappointed me , because we 'd talked about it and done that yesterday in training . |
| 16 | ‘ If we 'd talked to him . |
| 17 | Since we 'd sat down it had gone from bright and shining to slaty grey and gusty , like a set for Wuthering Heights . |
| 18 | Er and erm we did for that er report er as indeed in fact we had earlier in any event , we 'd looked at them separately , we have n't simply put in an orbital route , we had assessed in the traffic model er as separate schemes . |
| 19 | So by the end of the day , we 'd met Sam , we knew her , we 'd been in her house , we 'd looked around her house . |
| 20 | ‘ If we 'd listened to them do you think for one minute we 'd have got this far by now ? ’ |
| 21 | For the simple reason that we have no debt to finance , we have no debts to finance , and if we 'd listened to you over the years , on our sur surplus land and property . |
| 22 | If we was educated with handicapped , you know , if we 'd mixed with them … but we never saw them . |
| 23 | Will the surveillance made possible by modern information technology only apply at the frontiers , or shall we have to live with it in our daily lives ? |
| 24 | Do we have to talk about it ? ’ |
| 25 | Lakeside resident Denton Bell said : ‘ Will we have to wait for somebody to die or for a building to burn down before something is done ? ’ |
| 26 | If we can not ask directly , if we can not risk a ‘ No ’ , do we have to scream for what we want ? |
| 27 | How else could we have got to our friends ' lunch , I wondered ? |
| 28 | Do n't worry at all we 've contracted with you to do this dress |
| 29 | Yeah , twenty five says when once the householder has got up and locked the door and you start to stand outside and knock at the door saying sir open to us , but in answer he will say to you , I do not know where you are from , then you will start saying we ate and drank in front of you and we 've taught in our broad ways , but he will speak and say to you , I do not know where you are from , get away from me you are workers of unrighteousness |
| 30 | ‘ We 've fallen on our feet tonight , eh ? ’ |