Example sentences of "[vb base] we have be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 2 | But I mean we 've been going over and over that proposal . |
| 3 | Mm , I mean we 've been going out in the daytime , when the weather 's |
| 4 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 5 | But of course we were very strongly against it really but er , because th you know we 'd been inundated with all these marvellous ideas of this progress and it 's all for the best and everything , but it does n't seemed to have work does it really ? |
| 6 | well you know we 've been reading stories , little ones , that was only two I could find but there were n't any stories |
| 7 | We know we have been reading a novel but nevertheless we can believe that what the author has told us is true . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We still very much believe we have been called to work in missions and as soon as we are able to do so , hope to return to that work . |
| 10 | ‘ I reckon we 've been wasting our time . ’ |
| 11 | He says : ‘ It 's imperative we keep the confidence in our own ability to score goals , because then some of the bad luck we feel we 've been having will start to change . |
| 12 | ‘ We feel we have been considering each other too much . |
| 13 | She added : ‘ We feel we have been duped . |
| 14 | I understand we 've been drawn against Sunderland ( 1st leg away ) in the whatever-it-is-these-days cup 2nd round . |
| 15 | Alright cos I think we 've been sent these on approval to see if we want to adopt them for course material |
| 16 | Another of the things you ca n't say is ‘ Now look here , honeybunch , I know what you think we 've been doing , but we have n't . |
| 17 | I think we 've been talking about two different interpretations of the word , respect . |
| 18 | Right , I think we 've been going on long enough and I think you 've been sitting there long enough , ha |
| 19 | Alan Hobart , Pyms Gallery , London ( specialist in Irish art ) : Irish art has a small following in America , but this is not why I think we have been invited . |
| 20 | ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner . |
| 21 | We 've we 've been issued with snorkel masks I should say |
| 22 | Well we see we 've been saving the stamps so we had believe it or not |
| 23 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |