Example sentences of "[verb] we 've been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For the last six months the momentum has grown we 've been lectured to by ex-leaders of the Party by ex-parliamentary stars by Give-us-a-Meal Roy by budding prima donnas by the wagon-load , telling us how we should be gagged !
2 Seems we 've been beaten to the week 's top rock'n'roll scoop yet again by The Star 's ever-incisive pop columnist LINDA DUFF .
3 I understand we 've been drawn against Sunderland ( 1st leg away ) in the whatever-it-is-these-days cup 2nd round .
4 Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model .
5 We 've we 've been issued with snorkel masks I should say
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