Example sentences of "we [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have we been topping that up a little ? |
| 2 | ’ How badly have we been hit ? ’ |
| 3 | Only once in the last ten years , in 1983 , have we been placed in the first three . |
| 4 | ‘ We been saving for months ! |
| 5 | ‘ Why have n't we been affected up to now ? ’ |
| 6 | Clearly it is of prime importance to know how and why this dramatic reversal of traditional attitudes has occurred , and to ask ourselves the question why our approval of democracy should be so automatic and unhesitating when , had we been born a century or so earlier , we would have been equally unhesitating in disclaiming any support for so dangerous and radical a notion . |
| 7 | we been trying to fight that but |
| 8 | Er er what should we what have we been u have we been using any particular sort of of form of words Jane ? |
| 9 | I can not feel that we had been negligent , had we been dealing with another man . |
| 10 | So when we went to Stylus Records and Telstar you know they were more than than happy to have because they seemed but I think that at at the start had we been looking for somebody here to take us over probably it would never have happened . |
| 11 | Just think , what have we been looking for ? |
| 12 | Why have we been flooded ? — The gods did it . |
| 13 | How many years have we been flying that route ? |
| 14 | Or have we been addressing the Chairman all along ? |
| 15 | Have we been beguiled by Mr Gorbachev ? |
| 16 | Have n't we been embroidering and stitching and preparing for the wedding since before the War ? |
| 17 | ‘ What have we been overlooking ? ’ |
| 18 | This meant a descent and , had we been going on through , the Pyrenees would have grounded us . |
| 19 | I mean , what have we been doing ? ’ |
| 20 | What have we been doing this past week at Inveraray , eh ? |
| 21 | What had we been doing all these years if not promoting fitness , well-being , stamina , strength , and mobility ? |
| 22 | Erm , what we 'd like to know for for all of our sake 's really , is who we are , and where we 're from , what we 're doing here , how long have we been doing whatever it is that we 're doing here , erm where we come from , a little bit abo about our history , and any details , usual points , that you just Er , my name 's David . |
| 23 | What have we been doing all this time ? |
| 24 | Have we been expelled from an arcadia of fun where nature provided us with innocent automata , lowing and braying machines for our amusement ? |
| 25 | How many times on a visit to families in the neighbourhood , before being offered a cup of tea , had we been taken around a house — ‘ The grand tour again , ’ sighed Dad — to admire knocked-through rooms , cunning cupboards and bunkbeds , showers , coal bunkers and greenhouses . |
| 26 | Not only can we point to the success of such a tax abroad , but at no stage in recent negotiations or since have we been told that a local income tax would not work . |
| 27 | For how many years have we been told it 's tax payers ' money do you remember Maggie and the tax payers ' money , it 's like this animal somewhere called the tax payer but it came out of the wall as if we were n't one of them and that we had to look after the tax payers ' money . |
| 28 | What have we been talking about football last night er just an example of erm some of the scripts that we use down here . |
| 29 | One of the great advantages of the advent of councillor and councillor to this council is in fact because of the motions which , I have to say even nine times out of ten I do n't agree with a word of , or even ninety nine times out of a hundred I do n't agree with a word of what have we been talking about this last three quarters of an hour , housing , yeah . |
| 30 | Well how many weeks Stuart have we been talking in here about bre You would n't know because you have n't been in here . |