Example sentences of "[noun pl] we [verb] been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR months we have been mesmerised by stories of the Battle of the Atlantic . |
| 2 | ‘ The particulars we had been given referred to an estate of 680 acres having four cottages and a stone house … |
| 3 | For many years we had been permitted to lay out and examine wreckage in a couple of hangars at RAE Farnborough ; but we were strictly visitors , not always welcome with our requirements for hangar space , and of course our needs were always secondary to those of our host RAE . |
| 4 | For years we 've been told the Government is pledged to reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 5 | For fourteen years we have been bashed by the Tories , we have been led by a pound of poof T U C and as now it 's time to stand up and be counted . |
| 6 | ‘ In the last four years we have been asked to believe too many coincidences . |
| 7 | But the fact remains that for the last 13 years we have been governed by a party rejected by nearly 60pc of voters . |
| 8 | Additives : In recent years we have been made more aware of the danger of excessive artificial additives in our food and drink . |
| 9 | In the last few years we have been promised ( and in the UK have never actually been given ) ready-made video programmes on EVR , requiring one set of equipment , and on videodisc , requiring another . |
| 10 | read the following judgment of the court , prepared by Brooke J. In these two cases we have been invited to determine , as preliminary issues , the capacity in which judges of the High Court are acting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court to determine appeals against orders by which barristers are to be disbarred or suspended from practice by their Inns . |
| 11 | ‘ So where are all these bleedin' Germans we 've been told so much about ? ’ |
| 12 | TWICE in 24 hours we 've been shown letters from Ossie Ardiles , written in the week of his barbaric departure . |
| 13 | One of the things we had been told was to carry any valuables we had around with us so that they could n't go astray . |
| 14 | Like all other departments we have been established a very long time and therefore have the experience and the knowledge in dealing with lettings . |
| 15 | But in Eliot 's earlier sentences we have been told of Pound 's serving not ‘ art ’ , but artists ; of his being concerned that they should each realize his or her full potential , so that the level of accomplishment ( in ‘ letters ’ as well as ‘ art ’ ) should be raised all round . |
| 16 | ( 3 ) There is a modern attempt to defend what is called objectivism in ethics which turns on viewing both facts and values as essentially social constructs which are what they are because they are either what society drills us into accepting or what exceptional individuals can persuade us follow from the procedures we have been drilled into accepting as correct . |
| 17 | ‘ We will obviously monitor everything that goes on over the next 12 months ’ , he says ‘ We can only hope that when we do our assessments of need we can support that need with the finances we 've been given . |
| 18 | Got to be a member of the supporters club and I do n't know how many tickets we 've been allocated by Oxford . |
| 19 | After that , I went upstairs to read the hand-outs we 'd been given . |
| 20 | When I heard reports of the changing physical shape of German women , that they were becoming a different breed of women we 'd been told from the old , rather heavy , erm motherly plain sort of woman who characterised Germany womanhood before the Second World War , well now we read that their shape and their weight and so on corresponds much more to French or British and American norms . |
| 21 | In parts we have been given that modern definition . |
| 22 | We all went on doing the jobs we had been trained for . |