Example sentences of "we [verb] been [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Actually , we 've been here for 5 days already , but things have been a bit hectic . |
| 3 | We 've been here for six months . |
| 4 | ‘ But we 've been here for thousands of years ! |
| 5 | Masklin said we 've been here for thousands of years . |
| 6 | It 's a shame for shopkeepers … we 've been here for three years and have always done an excellent job for them . |
| 7 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 8 | We 've been in at five past eight , we 've been in past eight . |
| 9 | We 've been in at five past eight , we 've been in past eight . |
| 10 | We 've been out on this balcony a long time , and no one has come to interrupt us . |
| 11 | mind you , I 've , we 've just finished eating our tea , we 've been out to all hours doing the lawn , you know cutting the lawns all round the house |
| 12 | We 've been back to some of the places in the film to see what changes there 've been and to talk to some of the people who were in the original film . |
| 13 | We 've been back to some of the houses featured in the original film to see how they 've changed . |
| 14 | We 've been together for five years , Lexy and I — she practically holds that company together . |
| 15 | We 've been together for 23 years . |
| 16 | Then at the hotel , he was recognized and before we had been there for five minutes Radio Gibraltar was down to interview him . |
| 17 | We have been here under many governments since 1971 and will continue to be here under many more , ’ the Salomon spokesman said . |
| 18 | We have been here since 1986 and during that time the town has gone completely down the pan . ’ |
| 19 | He added : ‘ We have been here since 1986 but it has been used as a guest house since 1965 . |
| 20 | ‘ We have been here for five years . |
| 21 | We have been there for 20 years . |
| 22 | What we did was we based our forecast , which I think Mr raised that point , we based our forecast on the admissions that we did at the Department of Social Security and I 'm glad to say that we have been significantly under that level and partly I think because er we 've had people who have genuinely diverted into home care and who 've been able to which is why we 've put the pressure on home care and on the occupational therapy services and partly because erm the , there were some inappropriate admissions I must say that . |
| 23 | ‘ Some of us have been up since six-thirty and I like to read . |