Example sentences of "[vb base] we [verb] [be] " in BNC.

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1 And what I suggest we do is seeing Georgina 's here we send you through to see Georgina and she can , if she 's got time , we can briefly run through one or two types .
2 What I , what I suggest we do is we take this opportunity of having to review , to sort of have a complete overview and actually do , run a few er routine blood tests at this stage as well .
3 I might , for Phil , for Phil to wind down , he 'll come in , say we 've been out for a meal or whatever , he 'll come in and he 'll sit down in front of the television .
4 Thus we can assert that the kingdom of Cunobelin ( Shakespeare 's Cymbeline ) , whose capital and mint we know was at Camulodonum ( Colchester ) , extended over most of Essex and Hertfordshire .
5 Pimp we exposed is jailed
6 I hope we have been of assistance to you . ’
7 ‘ Through the Business Link we have been able to find a supplier which is literally 500 years down the road from us . ’
8 ‘ In the meantime we 've still got a couple of days left , and I 'd better start getting my act together , or my replacement is going to wonder what sort of service we 've been running here !
9 I mean we 'd been up
10 You know I mean because all the people that have come to show support and er solidarity have done it er I mean we 've been very aware you know the quarry men have actually said you know no we do n't want you to actually block the land rovers we do it our own way and erm you know there 's been no out of control mass picketing or violence or anything like that .
11 So what , I mean we 've been t talking around it at the moment .
12 But I mean we 've been going over and over that proposal .
13 Mm , I mean we 've been going out in the daytime , when the weather 's
14 I mean we 've been in three .
15 He said that 's when they put presents round and er he come in on the Friday on the Friday night and I mean I was in a right state , I mean we 've been in there about seven weeks and I was like at the point of like a nervous breakdown and he said to me how do you feel about me taking Matthew from you , so I said I he said I think you need a break .
16 we had our alarm ooh after five , William called us just in case we laid late , so we was on the move ten , ten past five , so I mean we 've been on the go perhaps two hours more than anybody else and eh , and then cos when , it was just like that , but it was down here now I thought to went to that down on his and a little
17 Oh no I mean we 've been down there when you put dash like , when you have to wire , er a bolt goes on the dashboard and everything , well Christ I 've been round , we went round er Sunderland works , Nissan , at Sunderland , and we 've been round Rover works
18 I mean we 've been very
19 It 's a masterpiece , I mean we have been it 's on every year in this country somewhere , and the idea that the first time a Parisian company should put on Peter Grimes in 1981 is staggering .
20 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 ?
21 Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone .
22 well you know we 've been reading stories , little ones , that was only two I could find but there were n't any stories
23 And you know we 've been to a few caravans
24 you know we 've been to your house a couple of times and
25 Yeah , we know we 've been there before have n't we ?
26 I know we 've been to er Colombo , near the we went there camping .
27 Sometimes we have emerged after a four hour session praying for revival to gulp down the night air with such joy and satisfaction as can only come when we know we have been with God .
28 We know we have been reading a novel but nevertheless we can believe that what the author has told us is true .
29 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 .
30 Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government .
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