Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] we [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance . |
| 2 | Things like false alarm calls and so on , have been through the courts and we 've been stopped from doing that . |
| 3 | Connie said : ‘ It has been a marvellous year for outings and we have been very fortunate with the weather this summer . ’ |
| 4 | the P E teacher is supposedly collecting aluminium cans and we 've been through various daft schemes of stopping the children from throwing the cans everywhere because we 've got this coke machine . |
| 5 | We 've concentrated on market share , we 've been exercising cost reductions and we 've been continuing with investment . |
| 6 | Therefore if we have activists who are put on the panel alib fi safe seats , marginals or unwinnable seats and we 've been in some areas where it 's been unwinnable , have n't we Dick , we 've still canvassed , we 've got the votes up , p places like Macclesfield where they got Nicholas Winterton , where they got that racist Churchill . |
| 7 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary have talked with housing authorities throughout the country in the past few weeks and we have been interested to find out that many local authorities have land banks which they are not prepared to make available to housing associations . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been involved in football for 24 years and we have been talking about this problem for all that time . |
| 9 | What time we were gon na be viewing houses but we 've been to see two . |
| 10 | Now the enemy 's all deflated and dead , I feel like all my friends and all the artists were like little pygmies and we 've been trying to kill this elephant all these years with little arrows , and finally tonight … |
| 11 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We were confident we had the quality to beat our rivals but we had been held back by the exchange rates , ’ said , sales manager plastic compounds . |
| 13 | We 've had people working excessive hours to meet deadlines and we 've been profitable . |
| 14 | Can I also say that , er yes , we were badly served by the press but I think that er the onus now is on those of us who went to Canberra to be able to share with others and we have been going round to tell others about Canberra to share with you and with others the experience of being present in the World Council of Churches in Canberra . |
| 15 | The England captain said : ‘ We 've done it despite a lot of injuries and we 've been without Mark Waugh for the last six matches because he 's with the Australian team in Sri Lanka . |