Example sentences of "what we have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was suddenly infuriated at the thought of what we had believed about the Germans in England . |
| 2 | Why are there grave areas , areas of uncertainty and responsibility erm Rivers Authority er Area Manager I believe , Mr er presented the position from their point of view er in particular circumstances on the night of thirtieth December er the er Southern Water whose responsibility is primarily sewage erm er describes circumstances that they have been contending with and a great deal of criticism erm was what we had to anticipate if you like or do anything er to contend with the unusual circumstances of that night erm the consequence was that a large number of new houses in the very close to the that runs through Barnham and under the railway there erm and er not ordinary surplus water flooding , but sewage flooding and the consequences then for many years er it 's obviously going to give , quite apart from having to live with it , er it will on the properties themselves and adversely affect er the ability of individuals to sell them off . |
| 3 | I thought of Troy , what we had built her for . |
| 4 | That we consolidate what we had built up ; but Buckmaster had the bit between his teeth . |
| 5 | Well it was what we had to carry you see . |
| 6 | Erm I 'm surprised that slightly surprised that with council and Hugh were willing to go down given what we had given our information about how dangerous or not the site actually is . |
| 7 | We would spend the afternoon re-enacting in the parking lot behind the apartment what we had seen in the morning on the screen . |
| 8 | ( Mindful of what we had seen from the office , we volunteered as witnesses to the Board of Enquiry . ) |
| 9 | We were only an hour 's drive from the front and it was quite frightening to watch the TV and see the Croatian coverage of the troubles , considerably more horrific than what we had seen on the BBC . |
| 10 | Holmes went on to tell them about what we had seen that morning . |
| 11 | And instead of finding it miserable and increasing the fear , we found that taking vigorous action to make the best of what we had made us feel proud . |
| 12 | Mr Lawrence said : ‘ An awful lot of what we had felt all along was vindicated by the research . ’ |
| 13 | And that is precisely what we had done in Madrid . |
| 14 | If we were naughty or disobedient the nursemaid would threaten us with this man who , she said , hid at night in the high bushes by the gate , and would know what we had done and come and get us . |
| 15 | Everyone has a smile and we all wanted to tell what we had done that day or planned for the next . |
| 16 | It 's quite possible that people shunned us not so much as a mark of outrage at what we had done , but to avoid the frustration of not being able to satisfy their curiosity about what exactly it was . |
| 17 | We had told NatWest and the Bank of England , anyone we thought we should have told , what we had done . |
| 18 | We told anyone we thought we should have told what we had done . |
| 19 | I felt that although what we had done in Orange had been severe and shitty , in choosing to go to Calvi and the Airborne regiment , I was letting myself in for treatment and discipline I could n't imagine . |
| 20 | ‘ What we had done was to manufacture this and other statistical indices to allow us to prove our point and push a particular policy line , irrespective of the economic realities of the country , ’ says Budhoo , who claims that such ‘ errors ’ were commonplace within the Fund . |
| 21 | Over lunch we decided that we could repeat what we had done at Muirfield Village and take all Four fourballs and five hours later it was done . |
| 22 | ‘ They thought that what we had done was an example of how a test should be made . |
| 23 | ‘ We then told the Daily Express that that was what we had done . |
| 24 | ‘ And now , Master Robin , ’ he said , ‘ we will finish what we had begun . |
| 25 | They had read a book called Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach , and we were supposed to talk about what we had eaten and what we thought this meant emotionally . |
| 26 | Certainly Terry , Brian and I knew that close friends had been campaigning for us and that that experience could have changed them , just as we 'd been changed by what we had gone through . |
| 27 | He was n't er able to be so positive as that , but he did certainly give us the impression that er that he 'd listened very carefully to what we had to say . |
| 28 | By the 17th we knew what we had to do . |
| 29 | On top was the Queen with Princess Anne in a pushchair and Paul McCartney as Dad , and here was one I had near the beginning about being in a space-ship — Brian and me were weightless and floating around , and what we had to do was to get some stability by getting hold of this firework , a sort of Catherine wheel that was going round and round and showering sparks in our faces , so we closed our eyes and a fire-fanged beast roared flames at us and burned a hole in the space-ship and I fell , still with my eyes tight shut , out into the bottomless black void . |
| 30 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |