Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] we [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm it seems to me that we 've been talking about capturing elephants but er is it really a Trojan horse ? |
| 2 | Later he said to me that we had been very helpful to him and he said it 's bad enough to be depressed but when you 're depressed and hungry , it 's really bad . |
| 3 | III ’ , which as we know is unproductive of surplus-value . |
| 4 | ‘ The court is endlessly being adjourned and I could easily come and collect you once we 've been let out . ’ |
| 5 | Did I tell you that we 'd been adopted by a kitten ? |
| 6 | My uncle told me to bring her to you and we 've been here about twenty minutes . ’ |
| 7 | Mrs clean er tables for you when we 've been doing now you have to do it yourselves . |
| 8 | Spoke to mother who as we arrived was holding a conversation with Head of Senior Department over the telephone . |
| 9 | The Canadian in the next cell knew only that we would be moved into the camp itself when we had been interrogated . |
| 10 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 11 | It 's a grey area , and everything that we do is totally ethical and professional , but obviously what were talking about is obtaining information . |
| 12 | So I ask you to be open minded they may seem a little bit off the wall to start with , but everything that we do is done for a purpose to achieve er what we 're wanting to achieve and what I do want to achieve is by the end of tomorrow is to have given you a system . |
| 13 | A lot of what has been said about make up has been very negative its to disguise or improve , its also an expression of er inner identity and its not something that 's new to the twentieth century , its something that we 've been doing you know since the beginning of time with war paint and what not . |
| 14 | You know , that 's , that 's something that we 've been very careful about . |
| 15 | What we 're actually doing in terms of the product is we 're actually widening the franchise erm I do n't like to use words going up market that suggests that we 're leaving our core customers behind , we will we will add any product that is complimentary to our core kitchens but er we 'll still be the main stance of the product in these two stores for instance , we 're going to introduce a house wear department it is something that we 've been experimenting with before we 're going to erm use the opportunity to widen the franchise on appliances we 're going to erm use the an experiment on erm floorings to match work tops , those kind of developments just to test to see whether the customer reaction is as good as we hoped it would be so that we can then introduce it in the main chain |
| 16 | Something that we 've been looking for for months and months ! |
| 17 | Even less radical , if I 'm to stand by the comments I made last month ) ; or something that we think is missing from current trends ( something a bit retro maybe , but where 's your originality ? ) . |
| 18 | The second , one that we have been promoting , is to bring in a new team of professional managers , each experienced at running a multibillion-dollar business unit . |
| 19 | We if we 'd been a minute later we 'd have |
| 20 | He was a senior , dedicated member , and it did n't at first appear that he had committed any atrocities , but we later found out that he was responsible for denouncing people who had anti-Fascist sympathies , and that it was because of him that we had been taken to Tabiano . |
| 21 | and then it 's not disturbing her although we 've been using the bottom bedroom really . |
| 22 | ‘ You see , ’ said Mahmoud , ‘ we 've been assuming somebody is helping him and we 've been going round all his contacts . |
| 23 | ‘ In case you have n't noticed , other than that first call , I 've made no attempt to try and find him since we 've been here . ’ |
| 24 | In fact we have been so good at it that we have been awarded the RCI Gold Star for the second year running . |
| 25 | Tom Tom Tom knows what it 's like cos last time I was up there yesterday Tom was and Chris Turner was up there and we went past an heap and it and we said is that a lorry-load and Dennis said , well it was at this morning . |
| 26 | I have n't been in it since we 've been here and I said ooh there , they 're packed out and they had some beautiful stuff |
| 27 | Erm well okay so we 'll decide today er you and me whether we feel 's the right er er space for you to be . |
| 28 | ‘ What if we had been bad people ? ’ they kept asking . |
| 29 | We knew it was n't us and we 'd been wondering who it was . |
| 30 | ‘ This was a golden opportunity for us and we 've been kicked out because we were so powder puff up front . |