Example sentences of "we have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he worked there and when I was we 'd left er Road , we 'd been up to up up to Terrace . |
| 2 | and we 'd been up all night serving troops and er , you see , and then the Manager said , well look er now and have some breakfast before we get th another telegram and we were next door to the Telegram Office , you see , and when , when the erm war , during the war , you see , the man would come out of the Telegraph Office and he would say er and er , you see , all the lights went out except a few lights along the back of the counter . |
| 3 | If we 'd been up on Water Gypsy 's superstructure you 'd have been in the canal by now . ’ |
| 4 | I mean we 'd been up |
| 5 | After what we 'd been through , it was an absolute pleasure , and many passengers refused to rejoin the plane , preferring new careers mopping up oceans of urine , and scraping generations of dried shit from the walls and little holes in the ground , rather than facing up to any more sticky orange and hostess abuse . |
| 6 | If we 'd been around in Nelson 's day he 'd have given his right arm for a copy . |
| 7 | We 'd been heavily blitzed and this gave us the opportunity to think big and boldly and to think philosophically . |
| 8 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 9 | So we 'd had a we 'd been out all night and all day and achieved nothing but it was , course it was exercises . |
| 10 | He he had us all lined up after we 'd been riding round and he started enquiring how long we 'd been out of hospital . |
| 11 | I did n't , it was so cold yesterday , we 'd been out in the morning and I decided to put him in his cot , on the odd occasion I do , do , he 's gone to sleep without any problems |
| 12 | with Dennis and Marge we 'd been out with Dennis and Marge you know , a while back , and they 're both Scottish and they run this country down to the |
| 13 | It was great and probably would have been with the exception of the video going to number one , it probably would be the highlight of our career cos we 'd been out of had n't been working in Ireland for six years and we were back in and did a sell out concert tour and I think that was really good . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , we 'd been so public I suppose everyone thought they had a right to make it their business , and what 's more according to us they did . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If we 'd been only 3-2 behind we 'd be favourites tonight . |
| 16 | ‘ If we 'd been only 3-2 behind we 'd be favourites tonight . |
| 17 | At the start of this climb we 'd been uncomfortably hot in the sunshine , but by the end the sun had moved on and the wind had got up . |
| 18 | I told him about my uncle after we 'd been together for six months and , though he was outraged , I persuaded him not to confront Joe or tell anyone . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'd been together for — since I was 17 . |
| 20 | We had changed a lot over the four years we 'd been together . |
| 21 | As far as the company was concerned , as one drifted nearer to insolvency , any rescuer who appeared would have been welcome provided we 'd been absolutely assured at the critical time when the loss of £92m was announced that a rescue was legally binding , underwritten and in place . |
| 22 | ‘ Although we 'd been unbelievably disheartened by it all with Peter , ’ continues John , ‘ that was how things were . |
| 23 | It turned out that Anderson had lived in the last apartment that we 'd been in , moving out the day after we arrived . |
| 24 | We 'd been certain that Frank had been kept with a Frenchman in the apartment we 'd been in from February to early May . |
| 25 | I remember Glyn and the kids were very young I think some of the were born in Blaenau erm and they were dismantling an old quarry at there his brother W R from Harlech had bought it usa like a machinery merchant and Glyn then borrowed a lot of tools off me for dismantling it then we started we we 'd done a lot off and on together we 'd been in er I enjoyed working with him , he was the type of man very hard worker himself but he wanted his pound of flesh . |
| 26 | Well I says to your mother one time when we 'd been downtown and your passing through |
| 27 | Graham 's father actually gave him the money to buy it from Brixton , after we 'd been there to see it . |
| 28 | We 'd been there about a week when we got news that the rebel leader and his council would be holding a meeting at a farmhouse on the outskirts of Choluteca — it 's a town in the south of the country : rebel territory . |
| 29 | Well we stopped and we 'd been there about a week , and all men that 'd worked in the pits , they were fetching them . |
| 30 | And er then we erm we , we , we went on the wards for about two or three hours a day and we just s sort of did what we were told , took out drinks and , and that sort of thing , and mouthwashes , and after er we 'd been there for about six or eight weeks we were allowed to wash patients , if , if they could n't wash themselves . |