Example sentences of "we have been [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been written off all season , but we must keep believing . ’ |
| 2 | This way of thinking has to be one of the blinder alleys that we have been led up by psychoanalysis . |
| 3 | The group members have not been idle during their enforced stay from Glenburrell Bridge as we have been helping out on the Society 's stall at local shows as well as building Thomas , The Tank Engine and , having purchased the show stand that we used to borrow , we are now adapting this stand for our own use at shows . |
| 4 | ‘ What has happened is that we have been clawed back from the disastrous level of whitefish we started at to a position in line with the top end of scientific advice . ’ |
| 5 | As I was saying earlier , paper qualifications can not guarantee to exclude the kind of evil that we have been reading about in the past few weeks . |
| 6 | We have been riding down what the Americans have called the ‘ Military Road to Absurdity ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ We have been bashing out plans for care management and for better discharge procedures , and on paper we can offer community care very well , ’ said Jim Walker , acting director of Bassetlaw trust 's mental health services . |
| 8 | ‘ We have been living in very poor lodgings , but hope soon to find better ones . ’ |
| 9 | For several years we have been leaning over backwards to avoid the use of the forbidden word , instructing the population at large that it is more dead than the dodo and deleting it from our titles with abandon . |
| 10 | ‘ We have been drawing up profiles of potential smugglers so that we know who or what type of people to look for using intelligence sources . |
| 11 | development of dictionaries and the use , the use of English so we have been assured in , that , that , anything we say will be divorced from |
| 12 | Can I also say that , er yes , we were badly served by the press but I think that er the onus now is on those of us who went to Canberra to be able to share with others and we have been going round to tell others about Canberra to share with you and with others the experience of being present in the World Council of Churches in Canberra . |
| 13 | Since the beginning of March , we have been running down production at Warwick . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I can confirm we have been carrying out certain inquiries , including the forensic re-examination of material . ’ |
| 15 | It is very interesting and is linked to the work we have been carrying out . |
| 16 | We have been following up leads . ’ |
| 17 | But we have been brought up to respect these intellectual tools so much that they supplant the innocent insight of a child . |
| 18 | We have been brought up to regard the house as our domain , and , despite wanting a man to pull his weight , can resent the feeling of being usurped . |
| 19 | erm , when we are victims of crime , and personally I think that there are two main reasons for that , one reason certainly is that when women erm are victims of crime that there is of a sexual nature or domestic violence , part of the way that we have been brought up and part of the way that those crimes have been portrayed , is to portray them as our fault |
| 20 | If in addition we have been brought up in the tradition that to show feeling is a vulgar and lower-class way of behaving , we will seek to drain it out of any situations in which we are involved . |
| 21 | ‘ If anything it has re-inforced what we have been working on , particularly retaining depth , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ One of the things we have been working on is getting men back behind the ball , ’ he said and when Stanger did just that in retrieving a kick-ahead from Nadroga , Nicol , Appleson ( twice ) and Turnbull , too , made sure the winger was not in isolation , for Ian Corcoran to boot on delicately and claim a grand try , Appleson converting . |
| 23 | ‘ One of the things we have been working on is getting men back behind the ball , ’ he said and when Stanger did just that in retrieving a kick-ahead from Nadroga , Nicol , Appleson ( twice ) and Turnbull , too , made sure the winger was not in isolation , for Ian Corcoran to boot on delicately and claim a grand try , Appleson converting . |
| 24 | We have been working out in which Schools we have the capacity to grow without incurring unacceptably high new costs . |
| 25 | Alison , 26 , who has two children — Tracey , 3 , and Antony , 15 months — said : ‘ We have been driven out of the house by this evil spirit . |
| 26 | But Mills adds : ‘ We have been let down and treated badly . |
| 27 | A spokesman said : ‘ During the course of the nesting season we have been paying out up to £2,000 a week in man hours just to patrol the lines and remove nests . |
| 28 | Lord Rix farce actor Brian Rix has accused them of not fighting back , saying : ‘ We rush like lemmings to the water 's edge , devising fatuous so-called policies … which are feeble attempts to cover up the fact that we have been defecated on from a great height . ’ |
| 29 | " We are agreed on these points — I do not know what we have been arguing about . " |