Example sentences of "we have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been heavily blitzed and this gave us the opportunity to think big and boldly and to think philosophically . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , we 'd been so public I suppose everyone thought they had a right to make it their business , and what 's more according to us they did . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If we 'd been only 3-2 behind we 'd be favourites tonight . |
| 4 | ‘ If we 'd been only 3-2 behind we 'd be favourites tonight . |
| 5 | At the start of this climb we 'd been uncomfortably hot in the sunshine , but by the end the sun had moved on and the wind had got up . |
| 6 | I told him about my uncle after we 'd been together for six months and , though he was outraged , I persuaded him not to confront Joe or tell anyone . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd been together for — since I was 17 . |
| 8 | We had changed a lot over the four years we 'd been together . |
| 9 | As far as the company was concerned , as one drifted nearer to insolvency , any rescuer who appeared would have been welcome provided we 'd been absolutely assured at the critical time when the loss of £92m was announced that a rescue was legally binding , underwritten and in place . |
| 10 | ‘ Although we 'd been unbelievably disheartened by it all with Peter , ’ continues John , ‘ that was how things were . |
| 11 | Well I says to your mother one time when we 'd been downtown and your passing through |
| 12 | Graham 's father actually gave him the money to buy it from Brixton , after we 'd been there to see it . |
| 13 | We 'd been there about a week when we got news that the rebel leader and his council would be holding a meeting at a farmhouse on the outskirts of Choluteca — it 's a town in the south of the country : rebel territory . |
| 14 | Well we stopped and we 'd been there about a week , and all men that 'd worked in the pits , they were fetching them . |
| 15 | And er then we erm we , we , we went on the wards for about two or three hours a day and we just s sort of did what we were told , took out drinks and , and that sort of thing , and mouthwashes , and after er we 'd been there for about six or eight weeks we were allowed to wash patients , if , if they could n't wash themselves . |
| 16 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 17 | Because we 'd none of us done much , we 'd been too busy lying in the sun ( I mean too lazy ) and looking at great pictures to do much drawing or anything . |
| 18 | Everywhere an unspoken question seemed to hang heavily in the air : Would we have been better off without Home Rule ? |
| 19 | Could we have been more different from one another ? |
| 20 | A group of East German workers still in their blue overalls in West Berlin 's equivalent of Oxford Street , the Wilmersdorferstrasse , bought doughnuts and Western newspapers ‘ to prove we 've been here ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ A Day Of Outrage ’ on X-Clan 's fierce debut LP ‘ Back To The East , Blackwards ’ commemorates the event : ‘ We 've been here before/The background then , the pyramids/The background now , the Statue of Liberty ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ In case you have n't noticed , other than that first call , I 've made no attempt to try and find him since we 've been here . ’ |
| 23 | I know playing Belgium in Brussels is going to be hard but we 've been here before and drawn . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But we 've been here for thousands of years ! |
| 25 | We 've been here for six months . |
| 26 | Right very briefly , we 've been here a little while now , is erm we 're just gon na a little talk about the other aspects of what we call a defensive driving technique . |
| 27 | And so we moved into it and then we 've been here ever since . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's none of our business , ’ said Sam , ‘ and if we go round wiping her tapes , she 'll know we 've been here . ’ |
| 29 | Er , that 's alright , let's behave ourselves , I says what about us , we 've been here since quarter to ten waiting for you to come . |
| 30 | And it 's been better since we 've been here . |