Example sentences of "we have been [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 2 | We 'd been playing safe for our own survival , and scores of heterosexuals went unchallenged in their continued acts of heterosexism . |
| 3 | Alright cos I think we 've been sent these on approval to see if we want to adopt them for course material |
| 4 | So far , too , we 've been spared any of the gorier stuff they do here — and some of this stuff you just would n't believe . |
| 5 | mm , well we 've been told this with Simon , you know needs to get to standard with them , with maths in particularly , before he goes up to secondary level you know because |
| 6 | Good news for us but bad for them and that 'll have to be all for today , we 've been answering some of the queries that have reached us by post . |
| 7 | So we 've been doing that with children as well . |
| 8 | ‘ On things like consulting with patients and carers — we 've been doing that for years . ’ |
| 9 | And of course we 've been doing these for twenty years , folders . |
| 10 | We 've been doing these for about six . |
| 11 | Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’ |
| 12 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 13 | We 've been doing this for sometime , it does n't really seem to have taken too much effect , now at the moment we 've been channelling everything through Julian and Jonathan . |
| 14 | But he 's not the sort of person that 'll say ah yeah we 've been doing this for a little while , why do n't we just take off and go somewhere and fuck it , fuck it , let's just go and do something together he 's the sort of person that they would settle down into this safe little life and , which would n't actually be that safe for Vanessa , it 'd be very very you know , much what Dangerous wants to do . |
| 15 | When I found out that we had been placed next to each other in class with all my friends around I went , ‘ Oh no , I 'm sitting next to Grant ’ . |
| 16 | We had been studying all of the information we had collected in an effort to reconstruct the events of that operation . |
| 17 | She said : ‘ About two weeks after we had been held captive by the Iraqis , one of the air crew told us that there were SAS soldiers on board the plane . |
| 18 | We had been divided four to a room , with a Corporal in each and with the different nationalities split so that no nationalistic factions developed . |
| 19 | It does not mean that we have been made righteous as if we are perfect and free from sin , because our daily experience will tell us of the power of sin ; but it does mean that we are declared righteous . |
| 20 | We have been seeing this from the development of the transistor to its becoming very widespread now , being replaced and developed in the form of integrated circuits so now we have the microprocessor chip . |
| 21 | We have been considering some of the ways in which the late Roman world inhabited by Christians was transformed in fact and in their imagination . |
| 22 | We have been using these for only a number of weeks now , but the response has been very encouraging . |
| 23 | ‘ It is interesting that a major conservation charity like the Trust has been served with a writ now , when we have been doing this for 30 years at Blickling , ’ he added . |