Example sentences of "we [verb] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course we were very strongly against it really but er , because th you know we 'd been inundated with all these marvellous ideas of this progress and it 's all for the best and everything , but it does n't seemed to have work does it really ? |
| 2 | We 'd been visited by 700 people . |
| 3 | Almost without exception we 'd been knocked for six . |
| 4 | We 've not given anything away and if we 've been affected by other pressures — England , injuries and the like — then okay . |
| 5 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |
| 6 | We 've been bugged for 10 years by a reputation for extremism and division , which we 're just getting rid of . |
| 7 | Not necessarily for us yet , but we 've been asked by Special Branch to take it on board . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been criticised in various quarters , but we used it as motivation before we met and beat Tipperary last month . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been criticised in various quarters , but we used it as motivation before we met and beat Tipperary last month . |
| 10 | Somehow we 've been transported to another world . ’ |
| 11 | No I did n't Stefan , we 've been blamed for some things in our time , have n't we but |
| 12 | Now we 've been approached by Irish Railway with regard , they 've got something like thirty million pounds from the to upgrade line from Dublin to Belfast . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been approached by some welfare organization about group bookings . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've been used to this since the anti-Rightist movement in 1958 , ’ observes an elderly economist of great distinction , trained in Germany in the 1930s . |
| 15 | We had been affianced for some weeks . ’ |
| 16 | I realized , however , that to do so after we had been deprived of half our rifles and whatever security the protection of the Government afforded us would be to invite almost certain massacre . |
| 17 | We had been held for three and a half years and we still had no idea when we might be released . |
| 18 | QUOTE : ONE JUST wondered if we had been provided with all the changes of the new laws relating to lbws . |
| 19 | what instructions had been given to the architects as to the ground they were to cover ; how far Parliament would be bound by the decision of the Commission [ of Judges ] ; and how we were to guard ourselves against an expenditure which we had been told by high authority would amount to not much less than £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 … |
| 20 | However , the know-how fund is doing extremely good work throughout the former Soviet republics , where we have been asked for that help , as it is in the rest of central and eastern Europe . |
| 21 | Apart from the Bolton Wanderers game , we have been hit by late goals . |
| 22 | We have been ripped off rotten with their metric and decimal . |
| 23 | If we have been outplayed to any degree in the last year , the opposition scores goals and wins . |
| 24 | We have been warned about global warming , but even more urgent is the threat to public health . |
| 25 | We have been referred to those authorities . |
| 26 | We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons . |
| 27 | Yes , well you are talking about children 's services , but , I , I think if Mr 's going to talk later to this , if you want , but we are absolutely at the moment , we know that eighty nine percent of work at the child care centre is to do with child protection with to deal with it , and by that I mean abuse , physical and sexual abuse , er , concerns about that and a lot of that of course is , is tied up in procedural ways , and we 're dealing with events almost after the situation has er , got going , er , and of course , with the courts , you know that we 've got duties in relation to the courts , that we , we have to fulfil or else we are the subject of criticism from the er , courts , and we have been rapped at various er , times . |
| 28 | ‘ We have been rewarded with significant new business in tableware and giftware and , in particular , the response to our bridal tableware marketing strategy has been very encouraging indeed . |
| 29 | At all courts up to the present we have been received with extraordinary courtesy . |
| 30 | The contents of motion one seven eight appear to be sound , conference , we have been tried and we have been tried by some regions in a very limited way with some success . |