Example sentences of "we have [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd barely settled in when , sure enough , on 15 May , we were moved again . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd both grown up a bit , that 's all . |
| 3 | We 'd carefully worked out the tides and as arranged waded back to the shore at 8 o'clock . |
| 4 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 5 | We 'd just moved in when we discovered we had a mouse in the kitchen . |
| 6 | But we nearly fainted when we asked which cottage — it was the one we 'd just moved out of ! — |
| 7 | stayed and Andy 's and we 'd just gone over to the shops and . |
| 8 | No we 'd just picked up Christine from her friend 's house and I had sort of half a dozen people |
| 9 | A portion of the top floor we 'd completely sealed off with walls of polythene sheeting , and a powerful dehumidifier had been installed . |
| 10 | So we 'd already touched on have n't we ? |
| 11 | Our table felt it was worth £20 of tickets for a woman to put her hand up and show him the error of his ways , but we 'd already forked out enough , honest . |
| 12 | In January we 'd also dug up the Hartlepudlian legend of the Mass Frying Pan Burial . |
| 13 | Then I said I was here with the family and she announced she was having a party for the local English , ‘ a rather disgusting barbecue ’ which she knew young people liked , and she supposed we 'd better come along . |
| 14 | Not that we 'd actually fallen out , but I 'd walked away to check the markers and I had 127 to the hole and Lee said it was 147 — and that 's a difference between an eight and a seven — so I said , ‘ You got it wrong . ’ |
| 15 | We 'd never talked about that day , and we never again came near this old air shaft ; I do n't know what he might have done since but I 'd always assumed he was like me and just tried to forget about it , pretend it never happened . |
| 16 | Yeah but if we 'd then gone in to re-present |
| 17 | Erm , we tend to get it it 's just an exercise , but it proved a point that even in twenty minutes we were , we 'd only got through only got through to doing ideals , |
| 18 | could we have possibly started out with not to give us exactly this cos it 's too it 's too much to find |
| 19 | Incidentally , it does n't include the disposal of Smithmark We 've also er we 've also gone in for other cost reduction exercises , for instance at er Dalton with a review of warehousing and distribution er , we should save about a million pounds in a full year and we 've been ramming home to our chief executives the need for annual payroll reviews to be geared to the profitability of the company rather than t rather than to the rate of inflation er , or even , er in , even the market place . |
| 20 | In fact in fact , we 've just moved in today into this place . |
| 21 | Yeah that he we 've just completed up here and one or two others er so we 're we 're getting some big boys in now . |
| 22 | Oh we we 've just sent out a six thousand mailer . |
| 23 | It 's where we 've just come up er but you turn left . |
| 24 | give us time to get dressed , she says oh hurry up now and we 've just come out the bath |
| 25 | And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet . |
| 26 | We 've just come back from Chile , where chemical pollution , factory fishing , and poverty are the everyday reality facing fishermen , slowly destroying their ability to make a living and support their families . |
| 27 | Tell them we 've just come back from that . |
| 28 | Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years . |
| 29 | York 's a historic city of some hundred and four thousand people , covering some two thousand nine hundred hectares , but that city itself is only part of the settlement that I think we would all regard as as York itself , that covers a larger population of some a hundred and thirty five thousand people , er contained er within the York outer ring road , and referenced to the the map submitted with my H One submission , and also the greenbelt plan which we 've we 've just put up on the board there , er will show you the the broader extent of the urban area . |
| 30 | Erm now the three two or three things that we 're talking about today really is , er and one we 've just got over I think , is that you and I er I 'm I 'm absolutely certain you 'd knock this into a cocked hat . |