Example sentences of "we have been [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd been assured that the case would be dismissed , none of the evidence tied up , even the judge did n't believe he was guilty . |
| 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 | ‘ We 'd been told that they might not have a lot of clothes , but they arrived with these huge suitcases , ’ Michelle recalls . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd been evicted when we could n't pay the rent because the potatoes failed . |
| 5 | the , the way we , the way I look it see , the way we 've been cut and slashed , and I 'm not just talking about high schools and first schools or anything right we 've been destroyed , we 've been literally thumped into the deck . |
| 6 | I do n't I thin I think there 's probably a lot lot less sexism just in terms of I think we 've won their respect by you know and and certainly when th they did n't want us to picket in the beginning , and then over the months really the women have done quite a lot of successful picketing when we 've been asked and and we 've staged quite big pickets quite a lot of you know the big pickets were really organized and the rallies have been organized by us and really sort of quite a lot of the input into into the strike I think has come from the women 's support group in in quite a unique way . |
| 7 | We 've been told that we have to type it all in . |
| 8 | Andrée said , ‘ Oh , yes , we 've been told that before , people seemed to find it surprising . |
| 9 | Following , from what was said there we know that there 's , that there 's a limited pot for mental health because that 's the way it 's going to be , we 've been told that so there 's a real big job for women |
| 10 | We 've been told that it has n't been trialed because it was produced in a hurry . |
| 11 | And we 've been told that we 'll only get between a nought and one point five percent increase at the most . |
| 12 | But as I say I do n't necessarily want to get involved in too much of the detail of the statistics of it , I simply want to make the overall point that we 've been told that there are three thousand unemployed . |
| 13 | And finally , erm again we 've been told that you either not remembering or you 're lying about the trousers . |
| 14 | We 've been told if we go over the two pound , they wo n't sell , sell so well , erm , so really I 'm not too sure , but er , I , I can work on bigger , er , like I got this couple of days off living Manchester , I 'm sure if I approach erm , you know , the police , they might give me a couple of days selling out there . |
| 15 | ‘ The saddest thing is that we 've been persuaded that true travellers know how to haggle . |
| 16 | The charity is n't a ‘ Mickey Mouse ’ outfit by any means — our constitution is being verified by the Charity Commissioners at the moment , and we 've been informed that there 's no problem with being granted trust status . |
| 17 | erm It 's a two thirty kick off yes , erm we 've been informed that erm that the it will cost people two pound to enter erm where that two pound is going to go , I do n't know . |
| 18 | I was too drunk to wonder whether we had been observed and too remote to care . |
| 19 | Reg and I were most vitriolic about the risk to which we had been exposed and hoped that the Germans would be just as inefficient . ’ |
| 20 | The boeuf Gardiane which followed brought tears to our eyes ; we had been overwrought and dropping with fatigue , and while the food we had already eaten had cheered and comforted us , it was n't until the cover was taken off the dish of beef stew and we smelt the wine and the garlic and the rich juices and saw the little black olives and the branches of wild thyme which had scented the stew laid in a little network over the meat , that the tension vanished . |
| 21 | We had been advised that if we laid on a couple of bottles of champagne he might stay and chat for a while after the show . |
| 22 | We had been advised that its latest English translation by Eivor Martinus was more robust than versions of it generally current here — an unnecessary warning as things turned out . |
| 23 | We had been wakened as on my first morning by the hideous 6 a.m. clattering of dustbin lids ; I had n't really expected a bugle but I found this noise intolerable . |
| 24 | Although all the recruit instruction was normally carried out at Castelnaudary , we had been informed that we would be going to Orange , the base of the 1er Régiment Étranger de Cavalerie , as Castelnaudary was overcrowded . |
| 25 | ‘ They say that it was a mistake that we had been told that the outbreak was due to Salmonella enteriditis , ’ she said . |
| 26 | Earlier we had been told that some ‘ lascivious ’ nudes were ‘ a sign of increasing decadence at the centre of an inflexible regime ’ , a phrase with some deeply troubling echoes of vocabulary . |
| 27 | We had been told that the loans system would deter people who might otherwise have gone into higher education because of the so-called financial hardship that they would face . |
| 28 | It was n't till the news that night that we realised we had been filmed while doing these taxi service for people . |
| 29 | The cultural framework in which we have been raised and within which we have been taught to operate provides both security and significance within its frontiers . |
| 30 | Just because we have been born and brought up to something does n't mean we will always value it . |