Example sentences of "we [vb past] been [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
| 2 | Almost without exception we 'd been knocked for six . |
| 3 | We had been affianced for some weeks . ’ |
| 4 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 5 | We had been held for three and a half years and we still had no idea when we might be released . |
| 6 | We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines . |
| 7 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |