Example sentences of "[verb] we [verb] been [verb] [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 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 3 | ‘ What the ‘ ell do you think we 've been doin' for the last hour ? ’ asked Tommy . |
| 4 | But of course we were very strongly against it really but er , because th you know we 'd been inundated with all these marvellous ideas of this progress and it 's all for the best and everything , but it does n't seemed to have work does it really ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 7 | I understand we 've been drawn against Sunderland ( 1st leg away ) in the whatever-it-is-these-days cup 2nd round . |
| 8 | They knew we 'd been talking to their pop idols and they just wanted to touch us . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought we had been hit in the starboard wing ’ , said the pilot F/O M G Johnson , of Geelong , Victoria , Australia . |
| 10 | I think we 've been talking about two different interpretations of the word , respect . |
| 11 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner . |
| 14 | We 've we 've been issued with snorkel masks I should say |
| 15 | Erm so yes I think we 're we can we can say we 've been leading from the front . |
| 16 | And the candlestick is beautiful — dare I say we 've been lusting after just such a one for ages , and now we can enjoy your gift . |