Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the intricacies , I know more about Europe , eventually , and other countries , due to not being having a a briefing by a Headmaster for half an hour of something The group of us , he had eight to ten of us in the room trying to prime us on what we 'd missed for a year . |
| 2 | We 'd called at a house to install some concrete steps in the rear garden , and learnt that they had been burgled the previous night . |
| 3 | Well we we 're going round Conways we sa , we 'd gone into a pub for erm we had sort of granary baps did n't we ? |
| 4 | ‘ I would have said what I have if we 'd gone to a fun-fair , ’ said Helen . |
| 5 | Oh and we 'd love to do swimming , erm , because we 'd done as a surprise for Carla for Christmas cos I mean we said the kids are getting older now , Dave heard it on the radio , erm , for one fifty a head , erm they were opening Guildford 's swimming pool erm , from ten till twe twelve ? |
| 6 | A Christmas stocking — no , a pair of red tights , actually — filled up to here with pound notes that we 'd won on a strawberry roan named Cordelia . |
| 7 | Oh as I sa the part-time job we used to get , two shillings a week and he used to give us tuppence for ourselves the two shillings was for our parents , and the tuppence was supposed to be our pocket money , but er when we 'd finished on a Saturday night if , if there were any stale cakes we 'd all get a bag of stale cakes each you used to make a terrific fuss of those on a Sunday . |
| 8 | We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank . |
| 9 | We 'd talked about a heart-lung transplant , and he was on the list , but they never found a suitable match . |
| 10 | So we all got very excited because it was the first money we 'd spent for a long time . |
| 11 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 12 | We 'd started with a lobster bisque that was almost certainly Sainsbury 's , but since Sainsbury 's almost certainly make the finest lobster bisque that ever found itself in a can , there can be no complaint . |
| 13 | We 've struggled against a background of the Charter Review in the BBC to match ourselves to the changing needs of the audience . |
| 14 | Now quite clearly the new settlement erm when it , if and when it goes ahead will be outside erm the area of the green belt and which by definition is by and large the area of the Greater York er er study area , and I think in response to er Mr 's point , we 've accepted as a need for a er a minor amendment to the wording of policy H one to reflect that er that reality . |
| 15 | we can carry on with this next week , as , as you see , we 've touched on a big topic , so we 'll , we 'll leave it to you to introduce next week 's discussion , whatever way you think fit , erm , that raises other issues which you want to talk about . |
| 16 | That 's something that we 've argued about a lot . |
| 17 | We 've landed on a star , it 's green and blue |
| 18 | As you know I 've er been holding a number of er small meetings with staff er and one of the questions I 've been asking is whether or not there has been a need for the building presentation that we 've done for a couple of years er and generally there was the view expressed that yes it was desirable but perhaps in a different format . |
| 19 | We know all the damned silly things we 've done for a thousand years , and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it , some day we 'll sop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them . ’ |
| 20 | Approaching the crags we 've seen for a couple of days . |
| 21 | We 've seen in a number of areas , the development of regional net environmental networks , which we have been directly involved in helping develop . |
| 22 | I mean we , we clearly do not have a socialist society even at the end of land reform as we , as we 've seen in a sense we 've created a , a private enterprise system which is based on equalities within capitalism . |
| 23 | we 've moved to a bigger home , fucking scaled it up |
| 24 | Something tied up , something in there as a heading so every member of staff knows that at such and such a time they are working on a heading of environmental awareness I would like us to have a precis of what that 's gon na involve but , I sha n't worry if we have n't got that we 've moved on a step |
| 25 | But this is about four or five years ago so I mean it 's n we 've moved on a lot since then . |
| 26 | We 've moved on a long way from the original version . ’ |
| 27 | But in our time , it 's very quiet now so we 've we 've moved into a different routine again , where I have two two sergeants out at one time , changing over er frequently so they do n't get bored . |
| 28 | that people can make their o , they have a balanced education which allows them then to make their own choices about , that things are n't over , I mean if we 've lived in a patriarchal society in which men are in power and that kin , and male sexuality maybe has come through more in sex education , those have been the issues that have been co , ha have been given more importance and female issues have maybe been neglected a little bit and now erm , with Aids as a problem we do n't want to turn out and suddenly become really homo homophobic or really , you know , right condoms , condoms , it has to be you know , you need to kind of keep the balance so that people are given the information and then have the freedom to make the choice themselves . |
| 29 | ‘ And we 've decided on a change of approach . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We 've played with a lot of spirit and commitment , but people defend that much better when they are winning . ’ |