Example sentences of "we have been [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd been beavering away on Imaginary for a while but we never got the success we deserved through limited resources . |
| 3 | We 'd been drifting apart until then , and that talk brought us right back together . |
| 4 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 5 | His wife , Shirley , believed we 'd been brought together for a reason and , after a while , she reckoned my sight would be healed . |
| 6 | Not only had a 30-minute journey taken one hour , but according to him , we 'd been brought back to where we started ! |
| 7 | And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry . |
| 8 | If we 'd been put back with an American maybe it meant that at least one of us could expect to be released . |
| 9 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 10 | To help ourselves we have not ignored the nostalgia trend , however , for we 've been glancing back at nineteen eighty two to guess what we think will be the most significant arts ideas for nineteen eighty three . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you know who we 've been stood up by ? ’ |
| 12 | We 've been ploughing all over the grass ! |
| 13 | We 've been thinking over past weeks of the little account that we have in the old testament of the life of Ruth . |
| 14 | A spokesman said : ’ We 've been acting unilaterally in cutting prices , with no support whatsoever from the record companies . ’ |
| 15 | not freehold land freehold buildings we 've been depreciating now for many many years . |
| 16 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 17 | I ca n't of course foretell er what 's gon na happen in Eastern Europe , but looking externally er at the lower interest rates and the er more competitive value of the pound and internally at the improved cash flow and the actions that we 've been taking over for the past couple of years and I can say that there 's now generally a more optimistic feeling in the air amongst our group companies . |
| 18 | Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis |
| 19 | We 've been flying here since September , but our wives have regularly sent out Country Living to keep us in touch . |
| 20 | Yes , the hindquarter double-muscled trait is important and is the breed 's main attribute , but we 've been looking too for stock with good overall conformation , with loin and fleshing that we feel is vital to any successful terminal sire breed . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've been slowed down by the lack of a new engine but we 've found a good engine in the second pack they sent us — it needs a couple of hours of work on minor jobs , but if everything goes well we should have something ready for out-inspection later this afternoon . |
| 22 | We never had had them , and we 've been criticized recently by the Inspector , because of that . |
| 23 | He 's away back to Biggar now , but he 'll be back up on Friday as we 've been invited round to Ingalo 's for tea — Hazel 's going as well , so it should be a good laugh . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've been invited out to dinner this evening , ’ he said tersely . |
| 25 | Incidentally , it does n't include the disposal of Smithmark We 've also er we 've also gone in for other cost reduction exercises , for instance at er Dalton with a review of warehousing and distribution er , we should save about a million pounds in a full year and we 've been ramming home to our chief executives the need for annual payroll reviews to be geared to the profitability of the company rather than t rather than to the rate of inflation er , or even , er in , even the market place . |
| 26 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 27 | We 've been taken on as a whole gang with lots of others , to make roads for those who are chopping down the trees in Wychwood Forest . |
| 28 | Erm the housing need figure we 've been working on for Greater York has been nine thousand seven hundred and that 's been based on the parishes within the Greater York study area . |
| 29 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 30 | And then at the end we will run a single lecture , a kind of gee whizz lecture , something that shows the applications of the ideas we 've been working on during the day to some particularly unusual branch of physics . |