Example sentences of "we 've been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we 've been here twelve hours |
| 2 | No I 'm only phoning you because you phoned I 'm only phoning because you ph yeah yeah no no we 've been here all the time and the phone did n't ring once well |
| 3 | erm , how long we 've been here sitting tenants er |
| 4 | ‘ We 've been financially solvent for the last five years , and the surplus has all been allocated to the new production of The Count of Luxembourg . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I hope it is not too late to say yes , I 'd like very much to have dinner on Friday and I too feel we 've been rather silly and it has all been a misunderstanding … ’ |
| 7 | well we 've erm we 've erm we 've been rather tempted by the west coast er I personally want to see the Grand Canyon and erm I 'd like to see San Francisco so the package which is being offered to the Boots Association with whom we 've been away several times and we lo we like it as , as a , as a background because you 've got a rough idea , you know , the people you 're going with |
| 8 | We 've been really quiet since it started . |
| 9 | We 've been really worried about you , you know . ’ |
| 10 | Mm Yeah we 've been found it really difficult finding a baby sitter really I 'm surprised ever since we 've had Lisa we 've been really bad uh uh actually having baby sitters and you know actually making the effort to go out really . |
| 11 | The effects of rabies are little known in Britain , that 's because we 've been virtually free of the disease since quarantine regulations were introduced in nineteen twenty two . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've been terribly lucky , ’ Yasmin says . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been terribly lucky because we 've had a lot of help with everything we needed for Rachel . |
| 14 | ‘ These last few days it 's been like a kind of magic carpet — we 've been so close , living on a heightened plane . |
| 15 | ‘ The plan was to have 100 people working by the end of 1992 but we 've been so successful that we achieved that by the end of 1989 , ’ McWilliams claims . |
| 16 | Here in Ulster , we 've been so busy saying that we are British that we have lost our true identity . |
| 17 | Well in actual fact to te to tell you the honest truth we 've been so busy one way and another over the weekends have n't we ? |
| 18 | We 've been so worried about you ! |
| 19 | We 've been so worried about you — whatever possessed you ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We 've been so worried about you . |
| 21 | Cos we 've been so cold have n't we ? |
| 22 | Glamorous couple : ‘ We 've been so lucky . |
| 23 | We 've been so lucky it has n't rained . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | Oh and then of course , change the subject completely , we 've just , we 've been out this morning , have we been out this morning ? |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | and we do many things , we write to MP 's , we write to councils trying to get them banned off the land , and we 've been very successful . |
| 28 | So far we 've been very successful . |
| 29 | But , as I say , we 've been very unhappy about it ! |
| 30 | ‘ We 've been very fortunate in most of the families of new residents when they take them out , they often take out their friends as well . |