Example sentences of "[unc] we have been " in BNC.

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1 It was the air raid shelter then and we went down there and we was in the shelter and er we 'd been down there ten minutes to quarter of an hour oh there was such a bang outside we thought this is it , you know , all the bits and stones and rubbish and er that was stuck on the ceiling was disturbed you know and it down it on top of us , you know , all bits and plaster and water th it was er shi close .
2 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 .
3 They were younger than myself and er we 'd been at but er we 'd been at together .
4 They were younger than myself and er we 'd been at but er we 'd been at together .
5 Er we 've been in , ten years in this shop and er , for those ten years I have experienced a lot of er difference in the attitudes of Muslim women as well .
6 No er we 've been told that Radio Leicester , our colleagues here at Radio Leicester tell us that there 's a bit of a delay in sending out C Ds .
7 Er we 've been in the longest recession in the housing market I think in memory .
8 We 've , we 've got the erm , we 've got the six hundred organizations running so far about three thousand events , probably a few more if you count every single er course that some of the training schools are running but in terms of key events I 'm very confident in being able to say there are three thousand events running around the country about half of which are new and that 's the important thing so about fifteen hundred new and inaugural events that did n't go on last year or the year before Belinda the R Y A Public Relations Officer has been coordinating the public relations campaign and these days to get the young pe young people and those young people whose parents do n't sail because it 's to get at the people whose parents do sail , you 've actually got to get in the media and er we 've been on Blue Peter , we 've been on Going Live another children 's programme on a Saturday morning and
9 my Lord I can I 'm sitting early tomorrow because a witness is being cross examined by Mr got to go off to so tomorrow he simply could not er , he si simply could not be released but er with your clerk er we 've been able to speak to Mr
10 so it 's not two in a row yeah , we went right , er we 've been right round looking at all shops this week and we 've had a right bloody go have n't we Alec ?
11 We 're also , now that we have er erm the , the council 's actually hung , but now we have the , the Labour Group largely in control of the direction of what 's happening in the city er we 've been able to raise some issues that were extremely difficult to raise under the previous Tory administration .
12 Yes we did , we were talking about our General Election strategy and er we 've been planning some campaigning and training workshops and so on , and I can tell you that we 've selected a Green Party candidate for Oxford west for the General Election ; his name is Mike Woodin , and the process is going on to select someone for Oxford east , so there 's certainly going to be a strong Green presence in Oxford during the General Election .
13 I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York .
14 Very anxious to promote the Wales in Europe scheme because it 's been very important to us , including the links that er we have been able to build up with other regions of Europe in Catalonia , , Lombardy and Battenberkaburg above all er which our our sort of strong erm er neighbours which can teach us a lot about industry and these are the areas that we will want to link up with by having this extra seat in the European parliament , er and obviously I mean there are sorts of areas where we have some sympathy with the occasional point that is made by the anti-Europe speakers on the other side .
15 Can I make a comment on that and that the these houses are and oh ev er we have been been into consultation with Newton Sherwood District Council , since we er since the the first application
16 Over the years , we 've taken the risk to increase the court 's costs , erm , where we 've got agreed pro er , principles , and we 've b we 've been able to go to the courts and they 've agreed with us , for instance , standard fees for overloaded vehicle cases , we charge seventy pounds a time .
17 You know what I think er , th we 've been talking about it round about and I says , you know , they were wondering if it was a bit suspic , I said no , th , they worry to death , there 's our children who speaking like the nig-nogs !
18 But we can say also that the we 're not new appraisals th we 've been through the pilot
19 The other , the other thing that we worked , w we 've been working with , and are still working with , erm to take up campaign for tenants in who 're on Supplementary Benefit or Housing Benefit supplement , erm to claim the higher rate heating addition for their flat .
20 Had n't got one upstairs , had n't a card , so I went out sa we 've been out this afternoon , and I get this card and I think , oh yes , now that 's pretty !
21 You know , I 'd like to ask a question , why is it so , why is it so frightening to spoil yourself ? , why is it such a , a wrong thing to spoil yourself , erm we 've been talking about make up we 've been talking about
22 Anyway erm we 've been hearing on this programme recently of course that er people are against hunting against fishing er they say it 's cruel .
23 We erm we 've been discussing all last week the amount of housing that has to be accommodated in Harrogate District and in North Yorkshire as as a whole .
24 Erm we 've been given an allocation er in this er in these alterations of twenty five hectares .
25 It 's very good good erm good thing for the party and they 're usually quite starved of practical campaigning ideas and so we regularly try every at least every year to go and do a tour and erm we 've been giving them we we 're trying to rope them in on the various activities because they 're crying out for
26 Well the , I mean the thing is that erm over the past erm we 've been recommended to people
27 well we 've erm we 've erm we 've been rather tempted by the west coast er I personally want to see the Grand Canyon and erm I 'd like to see San Francisco so the package which is being offered to the Boots Association with whom we 've been away several times and we lo we like it as , as a , as a background because you 've got a rough idea , you know , the people you 're going with
28 What comes to mind erm is that in the last erm fifteen years or so erm we 've been able to make magnets using superconducting wire , and these magnets erm involve very very large magnetic fields , much larger than one could ever get using a , a copper-wound magnets which were the , way when you did things previously and erm there are an enormous number of applications .
29 Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards .
30 So I got Peggy up from Somerset , on the same farm you see , and that was much better , and erm we 've been cycling to Stroud , to the pictures you know , 8 miles there and 8 miles back , and erm but the awful job he gave me to do for a few days was along , there was a young lad there and he was going to drive the old heavy fords and tractor and I was going to walk behind , and he 'd got converted horse drags I suppose they call them
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