Example sentences of "we have been [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We both wanted to win , I said , and now we 've been saved from temptation . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been stopped from coming into the Park because of people throwing paper and things on to the ground . ’ |
| 4 | Things like false alarm calls and so on , have been through the courts and we 've been stopped from doing that . |
| 5 | We have been freed from its reign . |
| 6 | Erm , now as as this so called generous funding in fact , the police authority are facing a straight deficit of three hundred and twenty-eight thousand , they are facing a further deficit of four hundred and twenty-five thousand because they have only been given one and a half percent for pay , where all the information we have been given from the Home Office , you can shake your head as much as you like Chairman , it is in fact true , and in fact , in fact as reported in the Guardian , on , only the day before yesterday , yet again the police bill is to be , almost certainly four percent , not one and a half . |
| 7 | I think the bottom line of this issue , frankly , is that the U S er attorney the governmental er investigating authorities in this matter have had this information at their disposal for several years now , had there been any question of G Tec 's behaviour er we would certainly be the subject of something that we are not right now , and that the bottom line is we have been assured from the outset that G Tec has not been a subject of this investigation , that G Tec 's behaviour has been above reproach , and as far as his comments go we we do n't really know what context to put them in . |
| 8 | However we do n't always acknowledge them in ourselves , perhaps because we have been hurt from a past experience . |
| 9 | We have been programmed from an early age to rush our activities and are only interested in the end product . |