Example sentences of "[conj] we have been [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
2 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
3 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |
4 | I suppose we 've been rivals in the past , when I had my column on the Daily Mail and he had his on the Daily Express , but we 've been rivals in the friendliest of terms . |
5 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |