Example sentences of "we have been [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been in the same form for two terms without really speaking because we had separate friends and in any case at St Edward 's you were seated according to your exam results at the end of the previous term , so it was n't likely we 'd be close . |
| 2 | Well they have n't done it , that with us , we 've been on the thirty days and just no |
| 3 | That 's where we 've been for the last twenty years so erm this company er that was already doing it and we bought it into the er into the fold . |
| 4 | We 've been through the whole thing with adoption ! |
| 5 | But now we 're in the top erm position , we 've been in the top position for a few weeks now , it obviously erm makes you think that whether it 's a possibility . |
| 6 | " We 've been in the same class since the First Year . |
| 7 | Er we 've been in the longest recession in the housing market I think in memory . |
| 8 | While we had been on the opposite bank a new barge had come upriver from the direction of Minya and had moored near the end of the Corniche . |
| 9 | We were there , too , as we have been on the first weekend of June in each of the past four years ; the roistering boys whose fever for drink and song has been jaded , ever so slightly , by contemplation of middle age and the fingering of indigestion tablets . |
| 10 | When we have been on the losing side in county or Test cricket nothing has been said . |