Example sentences of "we have be [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the enemy 's all deflated and dead , I feel like all my friends and all the artists were like little pygmies and we 've been trying to kill this elephant all these years with little arrows , and finally tonight … |
| 2 | The trouble is , we 've been having to spend more money on bribes lately . |
| 3 | We had been led to expect all the guillemots , but there were no black guillemots either on the ledges or in the sea . |
| 4 | On the debit side we have dropped one day on the calving interval to 376 days , although not a disaster we had been trying to improve that but our heifers are calving at 28 months instead of two years three months . |
| 5 | We read and experimented until we could stride into builders ' suppliers and ask for one-way cistern inlet valves , 1.5 mm triplecore insulated or three-inch steel angle brackets , just as though we had been born knowing all about it , like men ! |
| 6 | We have been asked to give that up and to go over to the European Community system , with the European Court and majority voting — the shoe is pinching all the time . |
| 7 | We have been appointed to handle all safety management aspects of Crossrail , the high profile cross-London rail link planned by British Rail and London Underground . |
| 8 | Through surveys and informal questioning and , more recently , partnerships we have been trying to do that . ’ |
| 9 | I think that what we 're really looking for is a stimulating , exciting involvement of parents , of students , of teachers , of everyone who has an interest in the success of a school , and I think for some years at Cardinal Newman we have been trying to create this open society , which gives access at all levels to all the children and to their parents , and we do n't want to close the society in any shape or form . |
| 10 | We have been trying to brief some Labour Members , especially the London Members . |
| 11 | Erm , but it 's impressive that he now feels we should be allowed to spend more money to create jobs , because of course a lot of us have been trying to point that out for years to the governments which stupidly cap authorities so they ca n't actually carry out the infrastructure improvements that are needed to enable the economy and the society to function properly . |