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 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 .
4 the most we have is before Christmas .
5 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 .
6 Now we 've been to these meetings , and there 's a lot of airy-fairy words about yes we support parishes .
7 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 .
8 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
9 Sometimes we 've been in danger .
10 OK , sometimes we have been in the wrong .
11 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 .
12 Then we 've been round the Carlsberg brewery at Northampton
13 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 .
14 Er Eric and I know fully we 've been through that , fingers crossed behind our backs .
15 ‘ Time and again we 've been through all that .
16 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 . ’
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