Example sentences of "and we have be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police began to search for various people but our security system was very good and we had been warned about what was happening . |
| 2 | ‘ I had jungle-boots on , and we 'd been walking through the forest all day . |
| 3 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 4 | So that we 're prepared within the Rural Housing Trust to look at all these ideas , and we 've been looking at the whole question , we feel that this has got to be one for the planners , the planners must be involved in identifying where these problems lie , they 're not uniform , all across the country , er and it 's something that er we therefore need to use the planning er scenario entirely and fully in order to identify where the problem lies . |
| 5 | This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up . |
| 6 | ‘ Luckily , I won £60,000 in 1991 and we 've been digging into that . ’ |
| 7 | Things like false alarm calls and so on , have been through the courts and we 've been stopped from doing that . |
| 8 | We 're particularly aggrieved because we suffered very badly from the storm in 1987 and we 've been struggling in the past few years of drought to replant , ’ said Mr Myers . |
| 9 | yeah and it 's a public relations exercise , and we 've been lumbered with it you know over the years we 've tried to push crime prevention and people come in and they do take notes of various things you know there 's obviously some people who come in and talk about crime prevention which we can answer fully , there are other enquiries about everything from bloody |
| 10 | We 've concentrated on market share , we 've been exercising cost reductions and we 've been continuing with investment . |
| 11 | Ian 's temperament is something he is working on and we 've been working on all the time , but he just seems to be getting maximum publicity at the moment . ’ |
| 12 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
| 13 | Our Division has been mentioned in the news , and we 've been patted on the head by Montgomery . |
| 14 | And we 've been saying to Chief Executives , if you ca n't get the profit or you ca n't get the sales , well at least concentrate on trying to , trying to get the cash , get the debtors in , that kind of thing . |
| 15 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 16 | ‘ And we 've been recommended to you by one of your staff , I believe . |
| 17 | Yes , well you are talking about children 's services , but , I , I think if Mr 's going to talk later to this , if you want , but we are absolutely at the moment , we know that eighty nine percent of work at the child care centre is to do with child protection with to deal with it , and by that I mean abuse , physical and sexual abuse , er , concerns about that and a lot of that of course is , is tied up in procedural ways , and we 're dealing with events almost after the situation has er , got going , er , and of course , with the courts , you know that we 've got duties in relation to the courts , that we , we have to fulfil or else we are the subject of criticism from the er , courts , and we have been rapped at various er , times . |
| 18 | I belong to a Committee who call themselves Women Against Apartheid , and we have been engaged in campaigning a lot against these marital laws . |
| 19 | Anyway , the Chinese seem excessively embarrassed and concerned about an incident of this type , and we have been kept under very careful supervision ( I am sure for our sakes , in their eyes ) whenever we have gone out of the hotel . |
| 20 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | The contents of motion one seven eight appear to be sound , conference , we have been tried and we have been tried by some regions in a very limited way with some success . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been involved in football for 24 years and we have been talking about this problem for all that time . |