Example sentences of "we [verb] [pers pn] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ever since we met you 've been acting quite out of character . ’ |
| 2 | That matter is not really as we perceive it has been known to chemists and physicists for over 150 years , but despite Einstein 's demonstration , and that of other atomic scientists since , that matter and energy are interchangeable , we persist in our view that physical matter is solid and stable . |
| 3 | It was n't till the news that night that we realised we had been filmed while doing these taxi service for people . |
| 4 | We realised we 'd been depending too much on verbal instructions so we concentrated on producing written safety procedures , including training and planning . |
| 5 | We found it had been secured only by one-inch-long wood screws . |
| 6 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 7 | Next thing we read he 'd been knocked down and killed |
| 8 | ‘ We hear you 've been selling Victor carthorses . |
| 9 | We know we have been reading a novel but nevertheless we can believe that what the author has told us is true . |
| 10 | Well what we do is , if we if we know you 've been burgled |
| 11 | We know it 's been coming . |
| 12 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 13 | We believe it had been buried in tin cans and hidden in walls |
| 14 | ‘ She upset her hosts by her grumpy behaviour in Korea and we believe she 's been talking to Morton 's people again . |
| 15 | He says : ‘ It 's imperative we keep the confidence in our own ability to score goals , because then some of the bad luck we feel we 've been having will start to change . |
| 16 | ‘ We feel we have been considering each other too much . |
| 17 | She added : ‘ We feel we have been duped . |
| 18 | From the police point of view we feel it 's been solved and solved quite well . |
| 19 | We thought he 'd been knocked over by a hit and run driver . ’ |
| 20 | Especially since we think she 's been running clear . |
| 21 | He 's about six foot two , short black hair , moustache , blue eyes and according to his record card he 's twenty seven and his name is John Banks and he lives at 36 Church Hill Road , Upper Tracey , and we think he 's been shot , I 'll be right over , stay where you are . |
| 22 | And , faith , since we married I 've been pressed into service as one more brother to him , a father , too , since his own father died when the boy was barely thirteen . |
| 23 | We 've we 've been issued with snorkel masks I should say |
| 24 | Well we see we 've been saving the stamps so we had believe it or not |
| 25 | So let us say you 've been hit in the eye accidentally by a hockey ball . |