Example sentences of "[verb] we 've be " in BNC.

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1 ‘ She 'll know we 've been in . ’
2 ‘ It 's none of our business , ’ said Sam , ‘ and if we go round wiping her tapes , she 'll know we 've been here . ’
3 I might , for Phil , for Phil to wind down , he 'll come in , say we 've been out for a meal or whatever , he 'll come in and he 'll sit down in front of the television .
4 For the last six months the momentum has grown we 've been lectured to by ex-leaders of the Party by ex-parliamentary stars by Give-us-a-Meal Roy by budding prima donnas by the wagon-load , telling us how we should be gagged !
5 As long as I can remember we 've been up here
6 Do you realize we 've been trying to get ready for twenty minutes ?
7 Mark Effendowicz , a spokesman for Lee 's , in city centre Basnett Street , said : ‘ It 's good to hear we 've been praised .
8 ‘ You may think we 've been putting pressure on you , but — ’
9 ‘ What the ‘ ell do you think we 've been doin' for the last hour ? ’ asked Tommy .
10 ‘ In the meantime we 've still got a couple of days left , and I 'd better start getting my act together , or my replacement is going to wonder what sort of service we 've been running here !
11 ‘ Another cheeky monkey , suggesting we 've been drinking . ’
12 You know I mean because all the people that have come to show support and er solidarity have done it er I mean we 've been very aware you know the quarry men have actually said you know no we do n't want you to actually block the land rovers we do it our own way and erm you know there 's been no out of control mass picketing or violence or anything like that .
13 So what , I mean we 've been t talking around it at the moment .
14 But I mean we 've been going over and over that proposal .
15 Mm , I mean we 've been going out in the daytime , when the weather 's
16 I mean we 've been in three .
17 He said that 's when they put presents round and er he come in on the Friday on the Friday night and I mean I was in a right state , I mean we 've been in there about seven weeks and I was like at the point of like a nervous breakdown and he said to me how do you feel about me taking Matthew from you , so I said I he said I think you need a break .
18 we had our alarm ooh after five , William called us just in case we laid late , so we was on the move ten , ten past five , so I mean we 've been on the go perhaps two hours more than anybody else and eh , and then cos when , it was just like that , but it was down here now I thought to went to that down on his and a little
19 Oh no I mean we 've been down there when you put dash like , when you have to wire , er a bolt goes on the dashboard and everything , well Christ I 've been round , we went round er Sunderland works , Nissan , at Sunderland , and we 've been round Rover works
20 I mean we 've been very
21 As you 've heard we 've been cutting costs pretty significantly over the last couple of years erm what we 're talking about is three thousand people having been er made redundant over the two and a half years and as we were saying earlier substantial redundancy costs have had to be borne .
22 well you know we 've been reading stories , little ones , that was only two I could find but there were n't any stories
23 And you know we 've been to a few caravans
24 you know we 've been to your house a couple of times and
25 Yeah , we know we 've been there before have n't we ?
26 I know we 've been to er Colombo , near the we went there camping .
27 I suppose we 've been rivals in the past , when I had my column on the Daily Mail and he had his on the Daily Express , but we 've been rivals in the friendliest of terms .
28 Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government .
29 ‘ I reckon we 've been wasting our time . ’
30 But stand-in skipper McAllister took all this flak in his assured stride and said : ‘ That 's two weeks running we 've been rubbish because Graeme Souness tried to make out Liverpool were the better side after the Charity Shield .
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