Example sentences of "we 've [been] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | As far as council support goes , we 've been granted the use of both the station centre itself , so that we can have a retail outlet for furniture , bric-a-brac , books , the kind of thing that might go to landfill , but which people might very well want to use . |
2 | Erm we 've been given an allocation er in this er in these alterations of twenty five hectares . |
3 | If the figures that we 've been given the recent figures , cos w I 've been working on figures for August up to August but now we 've got even better figures . |
4 | We 've been sent a sample , and inside there 's a very posh-looking Seiko quartz guitar tuner , a nice blue T-shirt , a set of Picato ‘ All Steel ’ electric guitar strings , a good quality lead in a violent shade of green , a set of pitchpipes , a miniature enamel guitar badge , a pegwinder , a classic ‘ Cadillac bumper ’ capo , a red nylon-weave strap and a can of that excessively useful Fastfret stuff . |
5 | Thankfully we 've been spared the agony of SRV 's favourite .013 to .058 strings ; the reissue comes with a much more manageable .010 to .046 set , and it 's been set up with an action considerably lower than the man 's own and at the 12th fret . |
6 | For years we 've been told the Government is pledged to reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent . |
7 | er sent us a photograph after the war was over , but since then , since we 've tried to find him , we 've been told the man 's never existed at all . |
8 | I mean we all know it , and we all know there 's a lot on this list which are most unpalatable , and they 're only there because we 've been set the task of reaching a particular sum of money , and er , if we had the choice we 'd be going in the reverse direction , and , and adding . |