Example sentences of "[adv] we [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It fenced up security-wise and everything else so we 've been on it overtime and and painting and decorating and getting the |
| 2 | So we 've been through quite a lot of those and it 's it , the case does n't really stack up . |
| 3 | We 've been in we 've been in the estate agents and |
| 4 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
| 5 | the most we have is before Christmas . |
| 6 | Simultaneously we had been in touch with Sir Hubert and had discovered that he did indeed give an interview to the representative in London and had spoken ‘ off the cuff ’ to quite an extent but not justifying the outright statement attributed to him . |
| 7 | Now we 've been to these meetings , and there 's a lot of airy-fairy words about yes we support parishes . |
| 8 | And it 's er er we go to Ffestiniog power station to have a drink and then come to er er well we 've been at Royal Hotel at Betsy-Coed these last years or two . |
| 9 | I mean , today we 've been to well we went into Henry and Norman 's and they were having a chat and it 's better if you 're just sitting down like this with a mike just you know |
| 10 | Sometimes we 've been in danger . |
| 11 | OK , sometimes we have been in the wrong . |
| 12 | Well we 've been , I mean we were at Jenny 's for a while , I went to the bank and eh , then we 've been into Bromley all afternoon . |
| 13 | Then we 've been round the Carlsberg brewery at Northampton |
| 14 | Since then we have been in England , while the children were at school , then California , and we now live in western Canada near our married daughter and her family , while our son and his family are still in England . |
| 15 | Er Eric and I know fully we 've been through that , fingers crossed behind our backs . |
| 16 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 17 | ‘ There are times this season when we have been under pressure and coped well , ’ he said . |
| 18 | That 's where we 've been for the last twenty years so erm this company er that was already doing it and we bought it into the er into the fold . |
| 19 | ‘ We were going past a pet shop in Shrewsbury , where we had been before looking for George , when we decided to have another look around . |
| 20 | The tercentenary of the church in Cambridge where we met was to be held in June that year , and we looked forward eagerly to that reunion , and to another reunion in May with friends in the Lake District . |
| 21 | Before it was built we were very much under stress , because the church where we recorded was on a flight-path into Berlin , so we sometimes had to stop and re-record a passage five or six times before we got it right . |
| 22 | ‘ Time and again we 've been through all that . |
| 23 | They stated firmly : ‘ the key to equality of opportunity , to academic success and , more broadly , to participation on equal terms as a full member of society , is good command of English and the emphasis must therefore we feel be on the learning of English . ’ |
| 24 | well at night when we 've come back from wherever we 've been with Wendy , it was a ritual to walk round , cos on the , on the |
| 25 | Wherever we had been in the Celebes lowlands people would call out to us , " Hello , mister ! " — but in Bira it was always " Hello , Inggeriss ! " which we assumed was simply because news of our true nationality had got around . |