Example sentences of "we have [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This way of thinking has to be one of the blinder alleys that we have been led up by psychoanalysis . |
| 2 | ‘ What has happened is that we have been clawed back from the disastrous level of whitefish we started at to a position in line with the top end of scientific advice . ’ |
| 3 | But we have been brought up to respect these intellectual tools so much that they supplant the innocent insight of a child . |
| 4 | If in addition we have been brought up in the tradition that to show feeling is a vulgar and lower-class way of behaving , we will seek to drain it out of any situations in which we are involved . |
| 5 | Alison , 26 , who has two children — Tracey , 3 , and Antony , 15 months — said : ‘ We have been driven out of the house by this evil spirit . |
| 6 | Lord Rix farce actor Brian Rix has accused them of not fighting back , saying : ‘ We rush like lemmings to the water 's edge , devising fatuous so-called policies … which are feeble attempts to cover up the fact that we have been defecated on from a great height . ’ |
| 7 | But the number-one British favourite , the otter , is both rare and probably the most endearingly anthropomorphic of Britain 's animals , and most of us have been brought up on nostalgic , humanoid depictions of badgers , foxes , hedgehogs , squirrels and owls in our childhood literature . |