Example sentences of "we [verb] [been] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we 've been involved with two specific projects that we 've worked on in conjunction with the tenants ' association , |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been married for sixty years . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been married for sixty years . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm 46 , Ruth is 45 , we 've been married for 24 years . |
| 5 | We 've been married for seven years and , though I 'm only 31 , I 'm beginning to worry — has he changed his mind ? |
| 6 | We 've been lucky in that companies and organisations have been supportive of our appeal . |
| 7 | " We 've been self-critical in public and learned important lessons " , he said . |
| 8 | We 've been precise on this because this is , if you look at your agenda papers , er quite detailed suggestion , one of the quotas , one of the options er in fact that we , the same about officer 's , erm nine twenty er the basis er , er is , is erm a very near to the that 's thirty five including capital , er we had to go fur further , obviously and , but we picked the Labour figure er and I wonder a little because the advice we have is that once we go over nine twenty places become much more erm , unfortunately costly . |
| 9 | We 've been thrilled with this work experience cos was Dave originally had these five days off taping and he said no , he said , you know you 're so tired , have a little rest we 'll go up I 'll go up on the train only to get to the Selhurst Park he 's got four or five train journeys |
| 10 | ‘ IN APRIL 1992 , a researcher from the BBC 's dramatised documentary programme ‘ 999 ’ contacted our Community Education Department asking if we had been involved in any unusual incident where rescues had been carried out . |
| 11 | As skipper Ian Butterworth said : ‘ If we had been top after six games you could have called it lucky — but not after 17 matches . |
| 12 | ‘ We have been involved in such a partnership for some years now and the fact that many governors have been accompanied by their head teachers today is an indication of how successful it has been , ’ he added . |
| 13 | We have been married for eighteen years . |
| 14 | It is difficult to plan far enough ahead for a quarterly magazine , but we have been quarterly for two years now and still manage a Calendar in most editions so please , members and secretaries … help the editor to make your magazine an interesting and informative read for the Institute . |
| 15 | Ever since the RSPCA established a Working Party to look at the implications of fishing , we have been concerned about one of its conclusions , which is that fish should be given the benefit of the doubt with regard to their ability to experience pain . |
| 16 | So far we have been concerned with non-polar solutions of amorphous polymers , whose solubility is increased with rising temperature , because the additional thermal motion helps to decrease attractive forces between like molecules , and encourages energetically less favourable contacts . |
| 17 | We have been aware for some years that the relational model and relational database systems have not been able to represent some real-world concepts and activities , and there have been many papers and conferences devoted to the study of extensions and refinements to the original model of Codd ( 1970 ) . |
| 18 | Alex Bell , CastleCourt 's manager , said : ‘ We have been aware of this problem but are satisfied it does apply to us . |
| 19 | We at Flight Refuelling Limited were very interested in Andrew Smith 's article on Centrifugal Launchers in the October issue ( p46 ) since we have been instrumental in recent years in developing the concept to routinely launch jet aircraft . |
| 20 | ‘ You know , Boyo , this is the start of our fifth day here in Normandy and we have been stuck in these bloody slit trenches having all kinds of shit thrown at us . |
| 21 | Like any good auditor , we have been realistic about national achievements and failures , about opportunities and problems . |
| 22 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 23 | In the past most of us have been unaware of these signs and that is why our body ceases to function normally . |