Example sentences of "we have [verb] for " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I know it 's early days yet , but White has n't made the kind of impact we 'd hoped for . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd finished for the day , so I tied the rudder and then came up forward . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The goons have discovered part of an old dismantled ladder which we 'd used for earlier trials and we think it may put them onto something . ’ |
| 12 | She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I try to think of the three things we 'd identified for the for the fifteenth of September . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So we all got very excited because it was the first money we 'd spent for a long time . |
| 17 | Will he beef up the public consultation procedures which his Department are currently casting aside like autumn leaves shrivelling on the ground , or do we have to wait for a Labour Government in the full flush of a green spring and summer to bring sense back into our planning system ? |
| 18 | Will he now change his mind or shall we have to wait for the people to do that for him ? |
| 19 | Will we have to wait for a Labour Government before positive action is taken ? |
| 20 | 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 ? ’ |
| 21 | Why sho why should we have to pay for this service as well as our poll tax ? |
| 22 | Going well , I do n't care why should we have to pay for all those poor people ! |
| 23 | She sat there going well why should we have to pay for poor people who ca n't be bothered to get jobs , they 're so lazy ! |
| 24 | If we can not ask directly , if we can not risk a ‘ No ’ , do we have to scream for what we want ? |
| 25 | If he go up , we 'ave to look for another ringer . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We are happy to support local schemes which wo n't worsen our mainstream business , and while hitherto we 've waited for passenger executives or consortiums to come to us with a proposal , we might in the future consider taking more initiative . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We 've waited for years to have a Formula One world champion like Mansell — and now it looks as though we wo n't be able to use him . |
| 28 | This is the beginning we 've waited for . ’ |
| 29 | We 've argued for years about meals on wheel service that there should be seven day a week service throughout this authority , we 've only got it in the City , we want it throughout the authority . |
| 30 | He 's six foot two , blue eyes and curly hair , and all the girls are mad jealous because we 've fallen for each other . |