Example sentences of "we have been [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we 'd been pounced upon a year ago we 'd have had maybe one good song and we would have been shit and not ready , without our style defined . ’ |
| 2 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 3 | We 'd been struck by a lightning bolt . |
| 4 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 5 | Did I tell you that we 'd been adopted by a kitten ? |
| 6 | ‘ I had jungle-boots on , and we 'd been walking through the forest all day . |
| 7 | We 'd been told by the guardian that the bolts on the climb were ‘ good . ’ |
| 8 | When I heard reports of the changing physical shape of German women , that they were becoming a different breed of women we 'd been told from the old , rather heavy , erm motherly plain sort of woman who characterised Germany womanhood before the Second World War , well now we read that their shape and their weight and so on corresponds much more to French or British and American norms . |
| 9 | We 've been acting on a |
| 10 | Instead , meaning and order is imposed on our lives as our behaviour , experiences , thoughts , feelings , and so on , are transformed into statistical data and interpreted within a scientific framework to which we have no access unless we 've been trained in the technical language of psychology . |
| 11 | Heather Watts , buying and merchandising controller for High Street chain Sock Shop says ‘ We 've been affected by the shift in hemlines and women are now buying sheers rather than opaques . |
| 12 | Since we 've been thinking these past few weeks about what Christians believe , the first text would be in the er skeleton outline that we 've been taking in the Apostles ' creed , which says I believe in the Holy Ghost . |
| 13 | We 're particularly aggrieved because we suffered very badly from the storm in 1987 and we 've been struggling in the past few years of drought to replant , ’ said Mr Myers . |
| 14 | You 're right , Dorigo is definitely one of our most consistent defenders , and it 's not as though we 've been blessed with an abundance of them in recent years ! |
| 15 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 16 | We 've been looking at the contrasting features of these two . ’ |
| 17 | So that we 're prepared within the Rural Housing Trust to look at all these ideas , and we 've been looking at the whole question , we feel that this has got to be one for the planners , the planners must be involved in identifying where these problems lie , they 're not uniform , all across the country , er and it 's something that er we therefore need to use the planning er scenario entirely and fully in order to identify where the problem lies . |
| 18 | If these figures are right that we 've been given by the department and I 'm not saying them whether they 're right or whether they 're wrong but well we have to r rely on what we 're getting this is why Mr is sending this lot to the Chief Executive for him to do some work I think it 's very important that it is done independently , not by the independent sector but by done independently . |
| 19 | We 're acting like that because of the way we 've been treated in the past throughout the school . |
| 20 | The , the , the best defence you could make of that , if you wanted to make a defence of it , would be that in the nineteen twenties and thirties as we 've been seeing in the lectures , I 'll be saying a bit more about that some psychoanalyse was , was developing . |
| 21 | And if we 've been filled with the Holy Spirit , then we should have the evidence to go with it . |
| 22 | And just finally , on Friday we are in to the we 've been invited into a bags competition , you know , that 's after the bags actually means bookmakers afternoon greyhound services , and we race that every Friday as you know erm anyway we 've been invited to erm a national championship involving the other bags tracks that erm involved in this erm and so we stage our two heats on Friday . |
| 23 | Erm one of the problems that we 've been facing in the past , certainly , in G P House is the amount of stuff that 's on the floor and therefore we have n't actually been able to tackle these things very effectively . |
| 24 | All this week we 've been reporting on the work in South America of Oxfam , which this year marks its fiftieth anniversary . |
| 25 | Seems we 've been beaten to the week 's top rock'n'roll scoop yet again by The Star 's ever-incisive pop columnist LINDA DUFF . |
| 26 | And I , we 've been complimented on a number of occasions on that procedure erm by various public bodies . |
| 27 | Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in |
| 28 | And then , on the bottom of page sixteen and through on to seventeen is addressing the point that , also within the guideline , we have been asked , we 've been asked as a Committee , to look at the implications of finding up to a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of reductions . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've been asked by the Cancer Research Campaign to press on as fast as possible . ’ |
| 30 | The , we 've been working with the water authorities as I said , they 've pulled all the stops out to provide the actual water resource and we 've provided the tanks and the distribution systems . |