Example sentences of "[that] we [vb past] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Once the rumour spread that we 'd been asked to put forward a campaign for a Danish-based company with worldwide interests , we suddenly became very popular . ’ |
| 2 | And erm I say he was n't er he would n't go to ACAS , Will and our Glyn from erm they went to ACAS , and they said oh everything 's fine in our quarry but they were side stepping the main issue that we 'd been sacked and there 's the boys are out and majority of . |
| 3 | Did I tell you that we 'd been adopted by a kitten ? |
| 4 | And the vicar did pick this up in his sermon and he did mention the Co-op Womens ' Guild and so we were very proud that we 'd been mentioned you see , you know . |
| 5 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |
| 8 | To begin with we used what paper , pens and pencils we could put together from our hand luggage and from among the belongings left in the house that we had been bundled into . |
| 9 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 10 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 11 | That evening my men , led by Kassimi , came to my tent and expressed regret that we had been recalled , which I felt was the genuine sentiment of most of them . |
| 12 | Miss Fergusson had maintained , when they first stood before the haloed mountain , that there were two explanations of everything , that each required the exercise of faith , and that we had been given free will in order that we might choose between them . |
| 13 | This continued until Bob Prentice tactfully suggested that we had been given enough help ! |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Outwardly , I criticised them as much as anybody , feeling more than pissed off that we had been hit on their account . |
| 16 | While the recovery is a little bit slower that we had been anticipating when I left GM Europe , it 's not very much different than what we had expected . |
| 17 | But anyway , the railways there was a spurt on between in the late sixties on the railway and that 's when I think I was sure , not only because I was a branch secretary at the time but I 'm sure that all the British Railways there was a greater awareness of the fact that we had been deceived by the word nationalization . |
| 18 | He was a senior , dedicated member , and it did n't at first appear that he had committed any atrocities , but we later found out that he was responsible for denouncing people who had anti-Fascist sympathies , and that it was because of him that we had been taken to Tabiano . |
| 19 | ‘ They say that it was a mistake that we had been told that the outbreak was due to Salmonella enteriditis , ’ she said . |
| 20 | Then a ripple of information came down the queue to say that we had been ordered back to the station because there obviously was n't sufficient bus capacity . |