Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] we [vb base] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | and , and they may very well my Lord , say well we have been watching with great interest what your Lordship has been doing |
| 2 | Yes I mean in a sense that just sort of shows that a lot of people would agree with Lakehoff in the sense that they think that women use a lot of tag questions and have that speech style , erm I mean like we 've been able to see , and what we can say is that men and women 's language is different er and it 's even possible to say in what way it 's different , but the difficulty becomes when we actually want to say why those differences are . |
| 3 | He made it sound like we 've been our for a , you know , a romantic candle lit dinner and , you know , and we 'd just been down to his study for God 's sake ! |
| 4 | Er Eric and I know fully we 've been through that , fingers crossed behind our backs . |
| 5 | Ever since you went away we have been unable to get the fire to burn ; even if we borrowed a light from the neighbours it went out as soon as we brought it in . " |
| 6 | Thank you , I think actually we 've been debating Mr 's amendment which seems to have widespread approval and I was ready to put that to the vote . |
| 7 | I said well we 've been very busy . |
| 8 | ‘ The breadth of knowledge and expertise which each person brings to the team is enormous and by working together we have been able in a short space of time to see the company woods from the departmental trees . ’ |