Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So on that very depressing note , er I 'll leave we 've got a few minutes for questions or objections if anyone wants to , we 've got some head shaking .
2 So you see we , we 've got a three-tier movement you know , throughout the , throughout the country .
3 ‘ We were all aware we 'd made a total cock-up .
4 Nick had tried to get his US Tour card that year and we 'd played a few times in America .
5 Er , well , the extra costs was two million a year er , and at the end of the first six months in the first year we 'd , we 'd , we 'd achieved a million extra revenue , so it looks as if we 've paid for it .
6 And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there .
7 As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job .
8 We 'd hired a camper van to get around ’ , Nigel explains .
9 We 'd hired a camper van to get around , ’ Nigel explains .
10 We 'd taken a small local boat — built for four people but with 15 on board not to mention some pigs and chickens — out to an island .
11 We 'd taken a small local boat — built for four people but with 15 on board not to mention some pigs and chickens — out to an island .
12 ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’
13 We 'd got a good relationship with the council . ’
14 I thought we 'd got a good team .
15 and we 'd got a little old fellow with us , you know , well built very not very big but broad as what he was long .
16 And I suppose if we 'd got a clean sheet , and we started again , we 'd do it differently .
17 He told us we 'd got a yellow streak a yard wide down our backs .
18 ‘ After we 'd had a nice dinner together , we 'd go into Richard 's studio and we 'd put on music .
19 So anyway we 'd had a good look round and this ch church warden said hey you 'd better go and get some seats cos it 's going to get .
20 Erm , on appendix B , erm there is an item which erm members of the committee erm will know about very well it 's the laboratory services that we give and have a great relate to them , erm the item goes under seven I believe , the figures there have dropped , is that because we 'd had a successful income erm there , we 've got a hundred and ten thousand for both up ninety two and ninety three and ninety , sorry ninety two three and ninety three ninety four , is it that er , could we know or are we estimating that we 're going to get a nice income because we have been told in earlier reports that this is quite a good slice of income to us and those figures are amended accordingly is that right ?
21 Our own particular case is our case went to the High Court some three hundred thousand pounds , when perhaps if we 'd had a dedicated pensions act setting out what could and could not be done , that would never have happened .
22 Although we we 'd had a modest week in terms of routes , we 'd found enough delight and challenge in the sunlit silence of the valley and the peaks — and now we knew the full potential of the place .
23 We 'd had a little car before he got there .
24 ‘ That we 'd had a short but intense affair , and when we 'd met again and realised we still felt the same about each other you 'd revealed how Thomas was mine . ’
25 Cos I did n't know how we 'd of managed if we 'd had a big one !
26 We 'd had a huge rally of 10,000 people for Ronald Reagan at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and I was flying on to Los Angeles with one of the co-ordinators the next morning .
27 Actually the tea shop benefited slightly , because we 'd introduced a new line of rock cakes that week , and some rioters came round to buy them to throw at middle class people . ’
28 And after I 'd explained , and we 'd laughed a good deal , and taken off each others ’ wet clothes , it was .
29 At last we 'd sunk a decent putt .
30 We really thought we 'd found a quicker way to get copies to our distant subscribers .
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