Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] we [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has apparently been some misunderstanding about the future of this Club and we have been asked to reassure members that the Club is continuing and that eligibility remains as before . |
| 2 | Yeah well thanks Jim , it 's been lovely meeting you and I , I 've enjoyed the evening erm and enjoyed , thanks for the tea and we 've been through |
| 3 | The Senate wants to merge us into University College and we 've been told we 'll have to get rid of some of our staff — it may all be very neat and tidy for the bureaucrats , but it 's going to be absolutely disastrous for some people . |
| 4 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |
| 5 | ‘ This is Anadarko 's first venture in the international scene and we have been working very closely with them , ’ Stephen commented . |
| 6 | Manager Harry McNally said : ‘ We are not out of the wood but we have been thrown a lifeline . |
| 7 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're all fine , there 's no damage to the building and we 've been able to continue broadcasting without interruption , ’ she assured him , her voice sharp as resentment rose , and she went on to inform him of the decision she had taken . |
| 9 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 10 | Everyone has had a reasonable work-out and we 've been very fortunate with the weather at a time of the year when you can have a lot of matches ruined by rain . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Hours of watching Ruddock on video revealed that he had a tendency to drop his left hand low , so he was wide open to my right and we 've been working hard on a left-right combination , ’ he explained . |
| 12 | ‘ But those few gigs we did , with me playing guitar and singing harmonies , went down a bomb and we have been partners ever since . |
| 13 | The 135 hp engine was used to operating on 80 octane fuel but we had been using 130 octane avgas . |
| 14 | The primate house has been a key stage in the zoo 's development and we have been able to plan and equip the house and enclosure to the very highest standards , pooling animal management expertise and design ideas . |
| 15 | He certainly does n't like publicity and we 've been unable to track him down . |
| 16 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 17 | A more accurate term would have been desktop layout or desktop typesetting and page makeup but we 've been stuck with the words he used . |
| 18 | It 's one we normally keep in the attic but we 've been keeping it down here |
| 19 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 20 | There were one night the door and we 'd been in quarantine you know for th that three weeks . |
| 21 | On a more positive note we have supported the efforts to rationalise and sustain the Free Representation Unit which it is hoped are coming to fruition and we have been able to help in a small way with the organisation of the national schools Mock Trial Competition . |
| 22 | Originally , this was proposed as a two-year project but we have been asked to manage the Initiative until March 1991 . |
| 23 | We 've been planning it since last year and we 've been saving every penny . |
| 24 | Incidentally , it does n't include the disposal of Smithmark We 've also er we 've also gone in for other cost reduction exercises , for instance at er Dalton with a review of warehousing and distribution er , we should save about a million pounds in a full year and we 've been ramming home to our chief executives the need for annual payroll reviews to be geared to the profitability of the company rather than t rather than to the rate of inflation er , or even , er in , even the market place . |
| 25 | I er , in fact , we , yeah , we just had a problem yesterday , we started work for the Royal Scotsman and erm well we started work for them , like last year and we 've been doing jobs |
| 26 | Difficulties had arisen over the Globe Hotel in February last year and we have been forced to move yet again . |
| 27 | We have appointed a National Youth Officer and we have been there leading the way , ensuring that young people have a voice in Britain 's second largest union . |
| 28 | Yeah , but you 're a go and we 've been to . |
| 29 | We reluctantly cancelled our holiday and we have been offered a full refund . |
| 30 | 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 . |