Example sentences of "we have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see we 've gone from paying these people twelve thousand to fourteen thousand to eighteen thousand |
| 2 | Well I mean surely it 's , that 's the point now is to try to make a fair erm law and one that is ideologically erm designed seeing we 've got to power , or we 've got certainty of obtaining power , therefore land ownership has got to be land ownership which has been capitalism Marxist |
| 3 | The umbrella group we 'd formed in 1987 had fallen into abeyance , but the name still meant something . |
| 4 | which lists the activities erm that we 'd referred to before , on the original note |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But when it when a bill came up and it would take away the money that we 'd saved for Kelly 's new school uniform , so it always seemed to come in a rush and there was always something needed like you know . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even at weekends we there 's nothing Saturday and Sunday , but somebody that we 'd lived with in West Yorkshire called us . |
| 9 | the staff somewhere and we , we came in here and of course most of the people eventually had families and er they moved out to bigger accommodation as their families grew up , you know , er , we were very pleased to get the house of course because we 'd we 'd lived in this Nissan hut for er either one or two years but it did |
| 10 | Almost before we 'd begun to really talk , visiting time was over and they were ringing the bell for everyone to leave . |
| 11 | Just as the record was going to be released , Dave came round and told us he 'd got another manager for us and it turned out to be Ralph Horton who we 'd auditioned for at The Roebuck Pub in Tottenham Court Road . |
| 12 | Not the sitting room across the hall , to which we 'd retired after dinner . |
| 13 | But first we had to heat up the tyre in the oven we 'd built on purpose to do this . |
| 14 | Well our company decided to send us for a fucking first aid course and this , it 's er most embarrassing on this particular night we 'd stopped in er in the Chapel Hill in Lisburn |
| 15 | I tore off the wrapping paper to reveal a framed version of exactly the same photograph we 'd sent to Joe 's dad . |
| 16 | He never dreamt that we would go to witness the execution or , even if we did , would get close enough to realise the man being burnt at the stake was not the same person we 'd questioned at Newgate . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought we 'd dispensed with formality . ’ |
| 18 | Oh , we 'd felt like this for years but we would n't acknowledge it , and then we started meeting casually and standing talking for ages , but it was only when I met him and he was so upset about the baby and — and other things . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Well we 'd seen to the back of the garden anyway cos we could see the hedge going across like that at forty five degrees . |
| 21 | We 'd decided to have a ploughman 's lunch or some such at a likely-looking pub we 'd seen in the next village . |
| 22 | He 'd come half past seven to eight to pay us as we came to work , to hand us the money we 'd earnt for the last week , always keeping about three days in hand . |
| 23 | Manager Billy Sinclair said : ‘ We would have got into the match better if we 'd scored from that penalty . |
| 24 | IN comparison to the other places we 'd visited until then , and to those we would subsequently see , Porto was the most touristy — but not unpleasantly so , and we strolled down to the river Douro where all the famous port cellars are . |
| 25 | We 'd gotten to the stage where we were selling out venues like the Hammersmith Odeon and none of us were prepared to return to the club circuit , so we quit while we were ahead . |
| 26 | We did n't intend to have a five-piece group so we played with Craig and , in the meantime , Andy returned and we 'd gotten on so well with him that we decided to continue as a five-piece … |
| 27 | Love fell out of love with the four-ball format , saying : ‘ We 'd heard about how slow play was , but we did n't believe it . |
| 28 | It was just after we 'd heard about Mary . |
| 29 | Well , we 'd heard of burning one 's boats , but really ! |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |