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

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1 Yeah all we want is a turkey .
2 So fitness is important , and how much we do is up to each one of us .
3 You were wondering how long we 'd been lovers .
4 He he had us all lined up after we 'd been riding round and he started enquiring how long we 'd been out of hospital .
5 we only went out for forty minutes , we were surprised how long we 'd been gone
6 When I think how long we 've been friends …
7 ‘ Within the context of how long we 've been together .
8 And for too long we 've been misled into believing that manufacturing and industry had become unimportant .
9 erm , how long we 've been here sitting tenants er
10 It occurred to me this was not an ideal arrangement ; I had a funny , cold feeling in the middle of dinner that perhaps we had been wrong to delay matters until this last moment , where there could be no immediate follow-up , when I must leave him the next day .
11 Perhaps we have been a bit unfair on John Byrne recently we expect him to keep scoring goals all the time .
12 I mean , obviously we 've been playing this game for hours .
13 If only we 'd been strangers
14 Well probably because er you know we try and keep up er er certain standard every year and er you know it 's very important doing a video that you have the right songs for it , you know to get a story book set up for each song and this one we felt when we had it finished was probably you know the best we 've done so far and lucky enough we 've been proved right .
15 So we 've been systematically checking out all the other bars in the city . ’
16 So we 've been through quite a lot of those and it 's it , the case does n't really stack up .
17 So we 've been left with no other avenue but to go to law .
18 You know , we 'll so we 've been quite a few times since , but I can not think of the name of it .
19 So we 've been perhaps a little
20 It fenced up security-wise and everything else so we 've been on it overtime and and painting and decorating and getting the
21 So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it !
22 So we 've been starting on the , but this is a bit of a shame though because , what I like , when we , when we , when we have our three days off , it 's nice to know on your , on your last day off that still have a late night because your not back to work until the afternoon you know .
23 So we 've been down there a few times but I said to you did n't I ?
24 So we 've been doing that with children as well .
25 So we said were Robert and
26 So we have been watching a battle between rival establishments for control of the UK .
27 This woman , although not recently delivered , once bore a child , and so we have been able , by the use of selected hormone therapy , to establish lactation again . ’
28 development of dictionaries and the use , the use of English so we have been assured in , that , that , anything we say will be divorced from
29 I remember Glyn and the kids were very young I think some of the were born in Blaenau erm and they were dismantling an old quarry at there his brother W R from Harlech had bought it usa like a machinery merchant and Glyn then borrowed a lot of tools off me for dismantling it then we started we we 'd done a lot off and on together we 'd been in er I enjoyed working with him , he was the type of man very hard worker himself but he wanted his pound of flesh .
30 ‘ The breadth of knowledge and expertise which each person brings to the team is enormous and by working together we have been able in a short space of time to see the company woods from the departmental trees . ’
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