Example sentences of "we have been [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 2 | As far as council support goes , we 've been granted the use of both the station centre itself , so that we can have a retail outlet for furniture , bric-a-brac , books , the kind of thing that might go to landfill , but which people might very well want to use . |
| 3 | Erm we 've been given an allocation er in this er in these alterations of twenty five hectares . |
| 4 | We 've been sent a sample , and inside there 's a very posh-looking Seiko quartz guitar tuner , a nice blue T-shirt , a set of Picato ‘ All Steel ’ electric guitar strings , a good quality lead in a violent shade of green , a set of pitchpipes , a miniature enamel guitar badge , a pegwinder , a classic ‘ Cadillac bumper ’ capo , a red nylon-weave strap and a can of that excessively useful Fastfret stuff . |
| 5 | Thankfully we 've been spared the agony of SRV 's favourite .013 to .058 strings ; the reissue comes with a much more manageable .010 to .046 set , and it 's been set up with an action considerably lower than the man 's own and at the 12th fret . |
| 6 | For years we 've been told the Government is pledged to reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 7 | er sent us a photograph after the war was over , but since then , since we 've tried to find him , we 've been told the man 's never existed at all . |
| 8 | I mean we all know it , and we all know there 's a lot on this list which are most unpalatable , and they 're only there because we 've been set the task of reaching a particular sum of money , and er , if we had the choice we 'd be going in the reverse direction , and , and adding . |
| 9 | We had been taught the history of the organisation , and each day were learning more about its curious codes of morality and behaviour . |
| 10 | We had been given an army escort and were following an officer who was taking us to the camp . |
| 11 | The police , most of whom I knew , because of the great help they had given us when we had been burgled a couple of years earlier , said no , they did n't have the key , and in any case it was the council who must be approached . |
| 12 | We have been sent a copy of the special prayer approved by the Archbishop of Canterbury for use at ceremonies in connection with the RNLI and printed in your Winter issue . |
| 13 | ‘ We have been given a mandate by our supporters not to pay the rent and with Mr Butters refusing to reduce it further , the situation is still deadlocked , ’ committee spokesman John Daley said yesterday . |
| 14 | ‘ We have been given no indication by Gavin about what he might decide , ’ added McDermott . |
| 15 | Because we have been given the possibility of sight , it is no surprise when we are inconsolable if we have no eyesight . |
| 16 | I believe that we have been given the right to have dominion over animals . |
| 17 | We have been given the status , resources and expertise to do so — on both sides of the Channel . |
| 18 | Following the successful English Course in 1986 , we have been offered a course from Thursday 31 May to Tuesday 5 June 1990 . |
| 19 | We have been offered a pot-pourri of amendments — some favour London , some favour London and the south-east and others suggest carving up the country into all sorts of different regions . |
| 20 | Well , I can report on that front that we have been offered the opportunity to secure a few locomotives ( one has already been given to us ) , and a number of pieces of rolling stock . |
| 21 | Now that we have been offered the choice and the opportunity to buy produce that has n't been sprayed or hybridised , it does seem reasonable to expect that flavour will return . |
| 22 | Manager Harry McNally said : ‘ We are not out of the wood but we have been thrown a lifeline . |
| 23 | In return , we have been allowed the role of ‘ mother 's little helper ’ , and our services are being relied upon to support the public . |
| 24 | This is a wide er feeling and er a feeling of great anger er because only recently we have been told the truth of how this money was used . |
| 25 | We have been promised a grant of £1,000 from the Village Association , and a further long-term loan from them of £1,000 . |
| 26 | We have been promised a visit to another great showpiece in Peking — the Summer Palace built by the Dowager Empress last century from money she misappropriated from the naval funds ( so they tell us ) . |
| 27 | GERRY Barron-Fox , newly appointed director of our Facilities Management Service , was delighted recently to announce that we have been awarded the contract for the management of multiple support activities at BP sites throughout Dorset and at Sherwood House , BP Wytch Farm . |