Example sentences of "we have be [adv prt] [det] " in BNC.

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1 and we 'd been up all night serving troops and er , you see , and then the Manager said , well look er now and have some breakfast before we get th another telegram and we were next door to the Telegram Office , you see , and when , when the erm war , during the war , you see , the man would come out of the Telegraph Office and he would say er and er , you see , all the lights went out except a few lights along the back of the counter .
2 So we 'd had a we 'd been out all night and all day and achieved nothing but it was , course it was exercises .
3 There she blows , it 's your mama hello , yeah we 've been up half er , since half past , about eight o'clock yeah , we 'll be round at nine o'clock , okay , bye .
4 Had n't got one upstairs , had n't a card , so I went out sa we 've been out this afternoon , and I get this card and I think , oh yes , now that 's pretty !
5 Oh and then of course , change the subject completely , we 've just , we 've been out this morning , have we been out this morning ?
6 We 've been out this morning , that 's right , we got back in and I was then going to go over to Saint Mary 's church club , I wanted to go to the bank at Saint Mary 's church , and erm , back door bell goes ding ding ding ding ding and I think it 's Chris cos Chris is normally the only one , go out there and who should it be ?
7 ‘ Sir Robert , ’ Agrippa smoothly intervened , ‘ we have been down this path before .
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