Example sentences of "we have [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd never been alone together for so long before . |
| 2 | We 'd always been boastful , conspicuous , triumphalist in our love ; now we had to tell the World . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd only been married five years when he died . |
| 4 | We had a really marvellous holiday in October — three whole weeks , much longer than we 'd ever been able to have while Michael was working . |
| 5 | Erm but we 've also been involved with p with specific projects with the tenants group . |
| 6 | We 've also been able to have a great deal more equality . |
| 7 | It would mean I mean we 've just been involved with one of the hospital because there 's an audit commission report on costs to hospital services . |
| 8 | That is probably the worst one day figure which happened , as I say , combination of war and the snow , when the shops were pretty well closed off , and yes we certainly saw figures that , on a day for day basis to last year , they were seventy five per cent down , but cumulative I mean the position 's much better than that erm nowhere near that sort of figure , and erm we are very confident that the summer market for overseas holidays will recover steadily and we 'd be very surprised if , by the end of September , we 're more than five or six per cent down on summer holiday bookings compared to last year , and we 're confident enough to have brought back our campaigns and our advertising starts this week , and we 've even been confident enough to announce to our staff that their annual salary review will take place on the first of April as scheduled . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been doing lots of shouting recently and we 've both been unhappy . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've both been alone for such a long time I do n't honestly know whether our marriage would survive if we were together every day . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Out of doors is the best place for Brownies , really , but we 've only been able to be out of doors so much because of this hot summer . |
| 12 | In past years erm in the British Isles especially with the British Met Office , we 've only been able really to study part of the atmosphere over the northern hemisphere . |
| 13 | ‘ And my feelings are telling me that we 've all been wrong about what I want to do . |
| 14 | ‘ I know now that we 've all been wrong about what I want to do with my — ’ |
| 15 | While we 've all been quick to condemn guitar manufacturers for being too timid to boldly go where no other has gone before design-wise , I found myself unwilling to applaud the Valley Arts Carlton for its daring to be different , but not being able to understand exactly why . |
| 16 | ‘ You were very tired , ’ Adam said , ‘ and we 've all been worried about Elinor . ’ |
| 17 | We 've all been worried about her . |
| 18 | Lord Mayor , we 've always been opposed to Trusts because of their independent nature which we see as really making it impossible because of that very nature to plan for health care properly . |
| 19 | We 've … we 've always been close , but more so since Harry went . |
| 20 | We 've always been close , but we 've got a different relationship now . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've always been close . ’ |
| 22 | Erm we 've always been involved with the flats , |
| 23 | We 've always been concerned with self-improvement , slowly re-building and extending our steadings and houses . |
| 24 | We 've never been keen gardeners but last year we decided to make a special effort and bought a big selection of plants and seeds . |
| 25 | We 've never been busier . |
| 26 | We 've never been close and my getting pregnant has n't helped at all . |
| 27 | Well we 've never been this place before , but we 've been on a similar do . |
| 28 | We 've never been able to offer you such big , comfortable suites as in our exclusive new American Colonial Collection . |
| 29 | We 've never been able to discover anything about his parents . ’ |
| 30 | Mrs Ainsworth appeared at my elbow , " That 's something we 've never been able to find out . " |