Example sentences of "we have [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | We 'd been practising hard and were having a rest , just standing around and the Head Girl was smoking . |
| 3 | Halfway outbound in the hold the scheduled traffic for which we 'd been waiting landed , and we swooped down , just catching the ILS . |
| 4 | We 'd been playing safe for our own survival , and scores of heterosexuals went unchallenged in their continued acts of heterosexism . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We are ready , we 've been eating raw meat and some of us can still move which is a major bonus to us |
| 7 | as two apostles of Jesus said we 've been declared righteous now by his word , the boy of Jesus God 's son |
| 8 | Except for one or two magistrates like Peck we 've been left alone , and have never done anything to trouble those who live around the forest . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been making great progress . ’ |
| 10 | I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards . |
| 11 | Er well it 's not a new thing , we 've be we 've been making ceramic ball bearings for a while |
| 12 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
| 13 | We 've been doing alright otherwise . |
| 14 | We 've been doing French art as well , so anyway it 's an afternoon out that 's what I |
| 15 | Well probably because er you know we try and keep up er er certain standard every year and er you know it 's very important doing a video that you have the right songs for it , you know to get a story book set up for each song and this one we felt when we had it finished was probably you know the best we 've done so far and lucky enough we 've been proved right . |
| 16 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 17 | We got specific money , in other words , the government flagged up that in the first year , there were going to be infrastructure costs , and so there was a specific allowance made for that , and we 've been recruiting gradually , not all at once , over a period of time , as the numbers of people coming into the community care system rise , we 've been recruiting new staff there . |
| 18 | They called us in told us some information about there being no work , then left a pile of envelopes on a table telling us we had been made redundant . |
| 19 | Mr Cattell said : ‘ We had been expecting bad news but had no idea where the axe would fall . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She said : ‘ About two weeks after we had been held captive by the Iraqis , one of the air crew told us that there were SAS soldiers on board the plane . |
| 22 | It does not mean that we have been made righteous as if we are perfect and free from sin , because our daily experience will tell us of the power of sin ; but it does mean that we are declared righteous . |
| 23 | ‘ We have been supplying anti-jet lag products to businessmen in the City for years , ’ says Daniele 's marketing director Farrol Kahn . |
| 24 | In the main , we have been exploring sensory perception and physical reality . |
| 25 | We have been taking slow steps towards that goal and have faced a number of barriers along the way . |
| 26 | ‘ With the kind of cut-backs we have been doing , we have been incurring substantial reorganisation costs and profitability has been difficult to achieve , ’ Mr Mair said . |
| 27 | In our consideration of technology and the production of particular artefacts we have been considering portable items which would have been of assistance to everyday life , some more so than others . |
| 28 | We have been teaching electronic publishing to undergraduate students for some ten years now , and to computer science undergraduates for six years . |
| 29 | Although we have been seeking similar promotional competitions with northern theatres [ and we have n't given up yet ] we do not have the facilities to run a comprehensive programme of regional competitions . |
| 30 | Notice that we have been using reverse operations to show direction , Forward or " plus " to the right of 0 , backward or " minus " to the left . |