Example sentences of "[conj] we 've [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 And if there 's no work and if there 's no means by which people can get themselves you know those sorts of basic things but you know I 'm not gon na si I I could n't say that the whole structure is going to ch change becau but I think erm I hope anyway and I do believe really that er I mean I hope that we 're going to stay together as a support group in some sort of form and Yes and there 's no way that we 're not going to support other causes in the way that we 've been supported .
2 Erm , we ca n't just ignore the responsibilities that we 've been given .
3 If the figures that we 've been given the recent figures , cos w I 've been working on figures for August up to August but now we 've got even better figures .
4 If these figures are right that we 've been given by the department and I 'm not saying them whether they 're right or whether they 're wrong but well we have to r rely on what we 're getting this is why Mr is sending this lot to the Chief Executive for him to do some work I think it 's very important that it is done independently , not by the independent sector but by done independently .
5 And this is one of many ways in which ordinary communication between people depends on our having a very powerful memory , having the ability to look out for situations that we 've been warned about , and to take action in accordance with instructions that we 've been given previously and have stored up .
6 Erm , you know , that we , that we 've been invited to reach out and why not respond ?
7 I 'm not surprised that Mr is happy to propose it because in fact it actually means that the status quo will in fact be cemented that that the situation that we 've been faced with will in fact be enshrined and supported by the council and and the Labour party have been consistently advocating that really a and they will get their way if this motion is passed .
8 And this is one of many ways in which ordinary communication between people depends on our having a very powerful memory , having the ability to look out for situations that we 've been warned about , and to take action in accordance with instructions that we 've been given previously and have stored up .
9 Somebody else can measure that allowance against the actual price that we 've been paid , but from our point of view let's accept an allowance .
10 The embarrassing thing is that we 're all very right people so the place is a mess , er , and it takes us a quarter of a day before we realise that we 've been burgled , because things are actually slightly neater than when we left the previous day .
11 So what I 'm really asking for is full democracy and not the rather closed democracy that we 've been used to in this country er for too long .
12 Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries .
13 ‘ The saddest thing is that we 've been persuaded that true travellers know how to haggle .
14 Now that 's the way that we 've been shown to do
15 I find that is the situation that I 've tried to er , guard against with the budget that we 've been put in on this occasion , and I hope that answers er , er , Mr but er , I 'll answer any other questions that are put up .
16 But as I say I do n't necessarily want to get involved in too much of the detail of the statistics of it , I simply want to make the overall point that we 've been told that there are three thousand unemployed .
17 So we 've been robbed , ’ he said .
18 Denice is never late , so we 've been told , and she 's due to arrive at any moment .
19 ‘ The court is endlessly being adjourned and I could easily come and collect you once we 've been let out . ’
20 Erm for one world week on the twenty fourth of October and we 've been asked to do a stall there .
21 Things like false alarm calls and so on , have been through the courts and we 've been stopped from doing that .
22 ‘ This was a golden opportunity for us and we 've been kicked out because we were so powder puff up front .
23 ‘ Low tide at 4.04 , ’ said Ann , ‘ and we 've been warned to leave not one second later than six , or be marooned all night .
24 And we 've been waylaid on
25 We never had had them , and we 've been criticized recently by the Inspector , because of that .
26 Er , certainly in the last well , all the time I 've been involved in developing these schemes , twenty seven twenty eight years now , we 've had a gradual increase over the years of involvement in the public , with the public and we 've been criticized where we have n't done so .
27 yeah and it 's a public relations exercise , and we 've been lumbered with it you know over the years we 've tried to push crime prevention and people come in and they do take notes of various things you know there 's obviously some people who come in and talk about crime prevention which we can answer fully , there are other enquiries about everything from bloody
28 Nogai 's fighting with T'zin , and we 've been left to see to all the training and armouring , Targoutai and I. ’
29 Our Division has been mentioned in the news , and we 've been patted on the head by Montgomery .
30 And we 've been ordered to treat him likewise .
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