Example sentences of "we have been [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been visited by 700 people . |
| 2 | Almost without exception we 'd been knocked for six . |
| 3 | In this chapter we 've been looking at two novels which , though they both contain their own particular stylistic innovations , nevertheless stick to the recognised , traditional shape of the novel . |
| 4 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |
| 5 | We 've been bugged for 10 years by a reputation for extremism and division , which we 're just getting rid of . |
| 6 | I think we 've been talking about two different interpretations of the word , respect . |
| 7 | If I can clarify that , our policies we 've been going since nineteen eighty three , and all our policies are in full print , which are readable . |
| 8 | Margot Farnham : I 'm involved in the Trouble and Strife collective which is a radical feminist British journal , it 's our fifth birthday issue , we 've been going since 1983 and I 've been on the collective for two years . |
| 9 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 10 | Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership . |
| 11 | It really is er a new model Secretary of State although the fact of the matter is Mr Deputy Speaker , that er his reality of course is quite different from his and the reality is that this is a poor settlement for local government in Wales and it 's been roundly condemned , not least by the county councils , who is the largest employers in Wales will have to face the considerable burden imposed on them by the government 's acceptance of the public sector er review body recommendations but without the additional cash to meet those awards and what this settlement er does represent Mr Deputy Speaker is a further step along the road that we 've been travelling since nineteen seventy nine . |
| 12 | We had been held for three and a half years and we still had no idea when we might be released . |
| 13 | We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I do hope the members will recognise that the service has not be sitting on its laurels er between inspectors ' reports but that we have been modelling on one quarterly to er correct any omissions with respect to boundary or to make the necessary improvements in the service erm as , as recommended by the inspect and supported by members . |
| 16 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
| 17 | ‘ What is the true financial cost to the public of this deal , and why we have been deceived for 16 months ? ’ |
| 18 | Certainly that was Donat 's experience , writing from the set of Perfect Strangers ( 1945 ) : ‘ No script to go on — just a mass of blarney from A. K. Our first complete script arrived five days ago — we have been filming for sixteen weeks ! |
| 19 | Keeping costs under control , managing our finances well and maintaining innovation in our sales approach are just three examples from a number that illustrate how , as a Division , we have been preparing for 1993 . |
| 20 | We have been negotiating for eight years with the Faroese authorities in an effort to get them to stop , without success . |