Example sentences of "we 've be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We both wanted to win , I said , and now we 've been saved from temptation . |
| 2 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 3 | Yes , we 've been expecting you . |
| 4 | We 've been so worried about you ! |
| 5 | We 've been really worried about you , you know . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If you 've snapped up one our handsome binders you 'll find , towards the end of the year , that because we 've been able to pack so many pages into Britain 's newest , brightest gardening magazine , things are getting , well , rather full . |
| 8 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been doing Bona-Fido for about two years but still get some guests who do n't realise they could have brought their dogs along , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , and the reason we 've got no morals is that for a long time ( 150 years ) we 've been at a loose end . ' |
| 11 | It was hot , and everyone was very cross by the time Tim Peacock from Broxtowe summed up the general consensus : ‘ We 've been stuffed , ’ writes John Pienaar . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've been waiting to move for a long time , and we need the money to build the new house . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We 've been involved with a number of societies who have been approached by potential predators . ’ |
| 15 | We 've been telling the Rugby Union for years that we want help ; what they 're doing now is like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted . ’ |
| 16 | We 've been bugged for 10 years by a reputation for extremism and division , which we 're just getting rid of . |
| 17 | I wake up at night and I think of maybe some kid we 've been dealing with . |
| 18 | What we 've been shown in the Report , and what has , ah , emerged from this discussion , is that for some fifteen years , we engaged in a game of blind man 's buff . |
| 19 | We 've been prowling around all day on a level with earthworms and rusty , broken down appliances , pressing our ears against the hot wooden trapdoor to the cellar and hearing the silence of ghosts . |
| 20 | At least that 's what we 've been told by the seat-cover suppliers , Courtaulds Textiles , which produces the terribly natty ‘ Renaissance ’ decor for Rover 's new Metro . |
| 21 | We 've been waiting for the knight in shining armour and then there is n't one . |
| 22 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 23 | And she added with a dead laugh , ‘ We 've been what my aunt calls celebrating . |
| 24 | We 've been laughing so much we 're weak . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've been slowed down by the lack of a new engine but we 've found a good engine in the second pack they sent us — it needs a couple of hours of work on minor jobs , but if everything goes well we should have something ready for out-inspection later this afternoon . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've been working out the date for the party , ’ Frau Nordern said , producing an enormous desk diary . |
| 27 | We 've been seeing more ‘ corked ’ wines in Europe , too . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've been making great progress . ’ |
| 29 | I was lucky to have my family 's support , and soon after , I met a really nice man at work ; we 've been seeing each other ever since . |
| 30 | A group of East German workers still in their blue overalls in West Berlin 's equivalent of Oxford Street , the Wilmersdorferstrasse , bought doughnuts and Western newspapers ‘ to prove we 've been here ’ . |