Example sentences of "we have been [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our next destination was the West Coast and we stopped first at Arthur 's Pass , where we 'd been invited to stay in a tramping hut but it was under repair , so we stayed in a backpackers ' . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | We 'd been warned to bring thick clothing but now found ourselves stuffing woolly hats into pockets and loosening scarves . |
| 4 | We 've been made to feel ashamed of our actions , of the past . |
| 5 | ‘ Low tide at 4.04 , ’ said Ann , ‘ and we 've been warned to leave not one second later than six , or be marooned all night . |
| 6 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 7 | We 've been sent to sort out the finer details , ’ Freddie said with a flash of inspiration . |
| 8 | Erm , you know , that we , that we 've been invited to reach out and why not respond ? |
| 9 | All we 've been asked to do is secure this ship until help arrives ; which should n't be longer than this time tomorrow . |
| 10 | Erm for one world week on the twenty fourth of October and we 've been asked to do a stall there . |
| 11 | For this committee , therefore Severn we 've been asked to approve a revised estimate of five point nine five five million pounds , and an estimate next year of five point four , six , seven million pounds . |
| 12 | Now that 's the way that we 've been shown to do |
| 13 | And we 've been ordered to treat him likewise . |
| 14 | We 've been ordered to protect the identity of the boy involved , though his mother has faced the press to talk about the episode for the first time . |
| 15 | We 've been ordered to protect the identity of the boy involved , though his mother has faced the press to talk about the episode for the first time . |
| 16 | Nogai 's fighting with T'zin , and we 've been left to see to all the training and armouring , Targoutai and I. ’ |
| 17 | We 've been told to take off times , but if there 's one certainty , they 'll be rescheduled by a few hours before the season starts . |
| 18 | we 've been told to refrain . |
| 19 | And the fact that are four per cent cheaper than us and as soon as I mention and increase he says , well if it 's dual source we 've been told to look at the cheapest source of supply as single source . |
| 20 | Although we must never give up hoping that Peter will recover from the terrible illness of addiction — for it is an illness — we 've been told to face the possibility that this might just never happen . |
| 21 | we 've been told to prepare for frost tonight |
| 22 | ‘ It shows we 're making an impact , ’ reckons Craig , ‘ because we 've been approached to do the music for a surfing movie , using ‘ Sun Do n't Shine ’ , ‘ Commercial Rain ’ and ‘ Weakness ’ . |
| 23 | We 've been known to breed our own , goats , bantams and the odd Jersey cow on heat ; in the runner beans , in the cabbage , the carrots , oh you name it . |
| 24 | We had been led to expect all the guillemots , but there were no black guillemots either on the ledges or in the sea . |
| 25 | His tinnitus did not , as we had been led to believe , oblige him to spend the concert inside a perspex box ; he leapt across the stage , knees at 90-degree angles , for much of its three hour span . |
| 26 | In the same way , the ears , which we had been led to believe revealed the horse 's emotions , are not really good indicators of a horse 's feelings on their own . |
| 27 | The wood in the barn was soaked and we stood there in our dripping combat jackets close to despair ; we had been made to wear our helmets for the duration , and the oversized tin hats kept slipping over our faces , as we scrambled in the mud taking the wood to where the petulant staff were demanding hot coffee . |
| 28 | Far from reducing taxation , as we had been elected to do , we would have to raise it — and raise it at a time when local councils were already pushing up rates . |
| 29 | And we had , we had been invited to take part in that and it was really good publicity and , it was n't even mentioned on on the channel that showed those th those games ! |
| 30 | For many years we had been permitted to lay out and examine wreckage in a couple of hangars at RAE Farnborough ; but we were strictly visitors , not always welcome with our requirements for hangar space , and of course our needs were always secondary to those of our host RAE . |