Example sentences of "we [verb] been [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |
| 2 | er somebody said well the , the table 's , we 'd been to French in the morning and I had n't realized that the table 's |
| 3 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 4 | We 'd been in make-up and when we were n't called he said , ‘ Right , Dennis , open the bar . ’ |
| 5 | There were one night the door and we 'd been in quarantine you know for th that three weeks . |
| 6 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 7 | Ah it 's the acne it 's I ran out two weeks ago , so we 've been on holiday I had to get those prescription . |
| 8 | You 've never had those before , not even when we 've been on tour . ’ |
| 9 | The problem at the moment is , we 've been on Word Processor up to now , but the designer is designing a programme at the moment , so I do n't have a programme to show you because it 's with the designer , erm all we 've got is the diary , that we 're kind of like again on the word processor , that we 're producing tonight . |
| 10 | We 've been on Hold too long . |
| 11 | All this week we 've been on expedition with the British team as they tackle the Camel Trophy through Brazil and Guyana . |
| 12 | er tab four and five , tab four and five , we 've been with tab four |
| 13 | WE 'VE BEEN THROUGH FIRE AND WATER — AND A LOT MORE — TO BRING YOU CARPETING THAT LEADS IN QUALITY AND VALUE |
| 14 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 15 | I mean that 's what I mean about this hundred days , we 've been at war , and I think the job of the press , I mean is not |
| 16 | We 've been to Valley Park this afternoon |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been to church . ’ |
| 18 | We 've been in correspondence with them , with the County Council , with MPs and with everybody who are interested . |
| 19 | We 've been in love for a long time — well , I have anyway . ’ |
| 20 | We 've been in touch with Stanford who will accept me if my lymphoma is of the right type . |
| 21 | Of course we 've been in touch by phone but I wanted to see how things were … |
| 22 | We 've been in touch with all the local schools in the in the Mansfield area er we 've followed up inquiries of girls that have not been at school and so on and er these er have led to er to nothing . |
| 23 | We 've been in danger . |
| 24 | Sometimes we 've been in danger . |
| 25 | We 've seen a very controlled and steady growth over the thirteen years that we 've been in business and I think as you can see there year on year we have consistently increased turnover and increased profitability . |
| 26 | we 've been round Sainsbury , the back of plant of Sainsbury , we 've been round Lime brewery at Blackford , we 've been round Tetleys brewery three times |
| 27 | When Aziru sent his Khabiris against us , finally , we had been under siege for three years . |
| 28 | ‘ If we had been at home Rachel might have been spending the day with us instead . ’ |
| 29 | We had been at Orange for a week and were having a kit inspection . |
| 30 | After we had been at school for about three years Arnold Hodson , who had been Consul in Southern Abyssinia , was staying with us at the beginning of the holidays . |