Example sentences of "we have been [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been two West Country boys sharing a desert tent in Fayid . |
| 2 | ‘ It was very hard work in many ways ’ , he told me in February 1985 , ‘ and the fact that we 'd been thirteen years [ in Opposition ] meant that most of them , almost all of them , had no experience at all in government . |
| 3 | We 've done it , we 've been four years , you know |
| 4 | Cos other years we 've been two days behind with orders you know and |
| 5 | If we had been 6-0 up at half-time no-one could have complained . |
| 6 | The last time we had met , and that was fifteen or sixteen years before , we had been thirteen years old . |
| 7 | We had been eight weeks in basic training and even in the most placid of us the qualities of self preservation and selfishness were coming to the surface . |
| 8 | We have been two months in producing this very complicated set of regulations . |
| 9 | We have been one of the foremost supporters of the United Nations , and the Government have played the prime role in enhancing the position of the United Nations in the past few years . |
| 10 | In the lorry with the rest of us had been five members of the Gandini family , which left one of the sons still free . |