Example sentences of "we [vb past] [been] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 2 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 3 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 5 | If only we 'd been strangers |
| 6 | ‘ I thought I could handle it — but the very next day we 'd been sightseeing and returned to our suite and I looked into your eyes and felt myself drowning . |
| 7 | You were wondering how long we 'd been lovers . |
| 8 | We had been bottom of the league in the 1960s and 1970s , but our GDP , business investment and manufacturing productivity grew faster during the 1980s than in Germany , France or many other countries . |
| 9 | ‘ The club gave us a presentation because they looked into their records and found we had been members the longest , ’ said Mrs Williams . |
| 10 | if we had been strangers . |
| 11 | We had been childhood friends , not from deep affection , or even from admiration , but because we were the same sort of person and trusted one another . |
| 12 | We had been lovers for a year or so . |
| 13 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |