Example sentences of "we [verb] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
| 2 | Yeah , well even Laura like she eats salad at school like you know , but erm , she 's got erm , what did we have the other night cos we 'd been eating semi semi Mediterranean food this week |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 4 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
| 5 | Recently we 'd been taking ten minutes a night off it in order to have more time in the pub . |
| 6 | We 'd been practising hard and were having a rest , just standing around and the Head Girl was smoking . |
| 7 | Halfway outbound in the hold the scheduled traffic for which we 'd been waiting landed , and we swooped down , just catching the ILS . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'd been walking all day , brushing through great webs of giant spiders , and at one stage I looked back at Adrian Arbin , who I was with , and it was like a horror film — his face was running with blood , blood running into his eyes , down his neck , staining his shirt . |
| 9 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We 'd been playing safe for our own survival , and scores of heterosexuals went unchallenged in their continued acts of heterosexism . |
| 12 | Could we have been hoodwinked all the way ? |
| 13 | ‘ All we did was to make sure the law was upheld . |
| 14 | It 's called the N tuple method is because the first thing we do is to take that image and break it up into a set of tuples each of N in size . |
| 15 | All we do is make sure that they 're not taking anything |
| 16 | is ah , if your barrelage is there then what we do is buy five or six barrels from Morecambe Bay Wines . |
| 17 | In the second part , the poem moves away from this incident to consider the point of life if all we do is destroy one another . |
| 18 | All we do , all we do is argue full stop . |
| 19 | But what we do , what we do is put first , do it properly . |
| 20 | Detente is a highly delicate subject right now … and we 've been getting some bad press lately . ’ |
| 21 | Since we 've been thinking these past few weeks about what Christians believe , the first text would be in the er skeleton outline that we 've been taking in the Apostles ' creed , which says I believe in the Holy Ghost . |
| 22 | We 've come to Jesus Christ , he 's forgiven us our sins , we 've been made new creatures , we are saved according to Athesians two eight . |
| 23 | We 've been mentioning this good housekeeping |
| 24 | We erm we 've been discussing all last week the amount of housing that has to be accommodated in Harrogate District and in North Yorkshire as as a whole . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 26 | Because it may be that you th you , you look back and say , Christ , we 've been using those standards since nineteen seventy . |
| 27 | One of the foremost exponents of Hawaiian slack key guitar was the superb musician and singer Gabby Pahinui , and Gabby is the reason we 've been given this rare and welcome opportunity to speak to Ry Cooder . |
| 28 | We are ready , we 've been eating raw meat and some of us can still move which is a major bonus to us |
| 29 | I was lucky to have my family 's support , and soon after , I met a really nice man at work ; we 've been seeing each other ever since . |
| 30 | We 've been seeing each other for two years now and , although we have n't set a date , we are planning to get married . ’ |