Example sentences of "we [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so maybe we could we 've been using sodium a lot try calcium because it 's interesting cos it 's got a double one a double positive negative is it ? |
| 2 | Er right I need somebody out there who has n't done this before erm let's see we 've been to Ripon , been to Thirsk , erm been over to Scarborough with Dr Rock , North Allerton no I do n't like North Allerton well I mean I love North Allerton no no I want to go south I want to go Tadcaster way have we anybody down there ? |
| 3 | Well we see we 've been saving the stamps so we had believe it or not |
| 4 | Has we has been you is get is get and you to paint it . |
| 5 | ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'd been in my room — Ronny 'd gone out , he always does between shows . |
| 7 | We 'd been visited by 700 people . |
| 8 | His wife , Shirley , believed we 'd been brought together for a reason and , after a while , she reckoned my sight would be healed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 11 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 12 | We 'd been moaning to Malcolm about wanting to play some gigs . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We 'd been on surprisingly good terms up till then . |
| 15 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 16 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 17 | Graham 's father actually gave him the money to buy it from Brixton , after we 'd been there to see it . |
| 18 | We went there on Sunday , me and Bella , after we 'd been down the prom . ’ |
| 19 | I remembered where we 'd been . ’ |
| 20 | We 'd been in our first house for just over five years , and I 'd served my d-i-y apprenticeship then , improving slightly as each room was restored and decorated . |
| 21 | We 'd been prepared to buy houses with flaws invisible to the naked eye , but now we 'd fallen for one with all its flaws only too obviously visible . |
| 22 | The ridge seems massive from the road , and when we tried to tell our driver where we 'd been , he grunted in disbelief . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , years and years ago , after we 'd been in Italy a matter of fifteen months or so . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We 'd been sent out here on Uncle Mick 's money . |
| 25 | ‘ It was very hard work in many ways ’ , he told me in February 1985 , ‘ and the fact that we 'd been thirteen years [ in Opposition ] meant that most of them , almost all of them , had no experience at all in government . |
| 26 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 27 | We were half expecting someone to arrive to investigate the deaths anyway , and we 'd been keeping Fedorov under observation for some time . |
| 28 | We 'd been practising hard and were having a rest , just standing around and the Head Girl was smoking . |
| 29 | The daft thing was they were probably going back to where we 'd been working . |
| 30 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |