Example sentences of "we have been [vb pp] [prep] a " 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 | We 'd been struck by a lightning bolt . |
| 3 | Did I tell you that we 'd been adopted by a kitten ? |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And I , we 've been complimented on a number of occasions on that procedure erm by various public bodies . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Talus president , Steve Sarich says ‘ its like we 've been dropped on a different planet and all the Martians love us ’ — surely sales of NeXT boxes are n't that rare , or are they ? |
| 9 | We had been warned by a merchant on the road not to drink either the water or the muddy-coloured ales because the plague had recently been raging in the city and the streams might still be infected . |
| 10 | This kind of maladaptive feature would be hard to explain if we had been designed by an all-wise creator , but is to be expected if structures change their functions in the course of evolution . |
| 11 | One afternoon we had been taken for a walk up to the top of the mountain behind the camp , which had been good exercise ; from the top I had been able to see the sea . |
| 12 | For fourteen years we have been bashed by the Tories , we have been led by a pound of poof T U C and as now it 's time to stand up and be counted . |
| 13 | But the fact remains that for the last 13 years we have been governed by a party rejected by nearly 60pc of voters . |
| 14 | ‘ We are now downright scared because we have been pushed into a confrontation not only with the police but also with the military , ’ Harris says . |
| 15 | We have been pushed into a confrontation with the military |
| 16 | The inward grace is that we have been born to a new relationship with God . |
| 17 | Epictetus said that we have been placed in a festival and we must enjoy it and be full of delight in it . |
| 18 | ‘ You see , Doctor Masters , ’ he continued , ‘ we have been placed in a difficult position , but that is no reflection on your qualities as a good doctor . |
| 19 | ‘ Over the years variation in discounts and other terms have arisen with various wholesalers , and we have been left with a hotchpotch of trading terms . |
| 20 | However we do n't always acknowledge them in ourselves , perhaps because we have been hurt from a past experience . |
| 21 | The Bank has been fortunate in that during this time we have been associated with a Grand Slam in 1984 and a share of the Five Nations Championship in 1986 . |
| 22 | We have been approached by a video company interested in collaborating with production and marketing , but this would require funding in order to go ahead — costs could be recovered through sales . |
| 23 | We have been programmed from an early age to rush our activities and are only interested in the end product . |
| 24 | So , at one and the same time , we have been provided with a new characterisation of the British party system that challenges the cogency of the responsible party government model , and we have also been provided with an explanation for economic policy-making and for the decline of Britain 's economy . |
| 25 | We have been taken through a number of English and Australian authorities , but none I think are determinative of the Secretary of State 's position . |