Example sentences of "we have [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did we 've just completed we 've done three or four others . |
| 2 | and things , job families er , we 've got that already and we 've got , there 's gon na be the computer thing on careers but you see we 've only managed this year to get it brought down from year eleven , somebody who went into this , keeping it very close to myself , to bring it down to year ten they 're actually you know , it 's very , very difficult to let them remove it and I ca n't see that you can then make that down to ninth year just yet . |
| 3 | You ca n't we 've only got two lights here |
| 4 | No I do n't w we 've never attempted to define development in those terms . |
| 5 | On trips into London after we 'd finally moved to Wales , I would raid skips and bring back the booty on the car roof-rack . |
| 6 | But after we 'd pulled over and Jeffrey Bernard had been unwell on the pavement , after the police car had been persuaded to leave us alone , and after we 'd finally got that hefty brute of a Bill Ellis Trophy fully upright again — in its carrying case and everything — I was at least able to start thinking partially straight again . |
| 7 | Because of the Suez crisis , short-term regulars to whom we 'd previously said our goodbyes were getting re-mobilised and returning to the Canal one . |
| 8 | With hindsight , I should have said ‘ Hallo ’ and then , if necessary , reminded him where we 'd previously met . |
| 9 | In term time he spent nearly every weekend with us in London , sleeping in a small room which overlooked the garden , a room which we 'd previously used as a dressing room . |
| 10 | We 'd barely settled in when , sure enough , on 15 May , we were moved again . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'd both grown up a bit , that 's all . |
| 12 | The price was about the only thing about the house that was right , but we 'd both fallen in love with it right away . |
| 13 | I told him my Vanessa story and he told me his and we 'd both heard them before ! |
| 14 | We 'd both made plans , and they both went wrong . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought we 'd both done an extremely good job of ignoring it ! ’ she retorted haughtily , willing her heartbeat to stop its idiotic racing . |
| 16 | And when we 'd both done I freshened our cups . |
| 17 | ‘ I should have suspected , but I thought we 'd both learned from the tragedy of our mother . ’ |
| 18 | Maybe we 'd both misjudged him . |
| 19 | The naan bread was big ; we 'd both stuffed ourselves with it during the meal but it was still big . |
| 20 | ‘ If anything had happened to your precious boat , or we 'd both drowned , you 'd never have let me forget — ’ Her voice trailed off as she recognised the absurdity of what she was saying . |
| 21 | We 'd carefully worked out the tides and as arranged waded back to the shore at 8 o'clock . |
| 22 | But then we 'd just eaten Mars Bars with everything else . |
| 23 | Erm , yeah we , we did take direct action and so eventually the ad was dropped , but if we 'd just complained and not taken any action the ad would n't have been dropped . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | And can I tell you , that if we 'd just done Covermaster , somebody could have picked up a point there . |
| 26 | I wish we 'd just done that . |
| 27 | I 've often speculated since on what would have happened if we 'd just given ourselves up at this point . |
| 28 | We 'd just totalled a couple of teenage boys . |
| 29 | We 'd just moved in when we discovered we had a mouse in the kitchen . |
| 30 | But we nearly fainted when we asked which cottage — it was the one we 'd just moved out of ! — |