Example sentences of "we [verb] [be] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so maybe we could we 've been using sodium a lot try calcium because it 's interesting cos it 's got a double one a double positive negative is it ? |
| 2 | I feel some drivers have been very , very lucky and the last thing we want is to have complacency creeping in . |
| 3 | The two things are very different , and yet if all we want is to produce consent , it can be got in either way . |
| 4 | What we want is fighting talk , and fighting spirit , I want Macca to prove me wrong that he is not a big girl 's blouse . |
| 5 | ‘ Actually I was really happy about that , not just because we 'd been made Singe Of The Week , but because it was a woman reviewing the singles — and they 're a lot harder to please . |
| 6 | We 'd been providing cover for the convoy , when a vehicle went over a land mine . |
| 7 | We 'd been drinking vin blanc and supping pork pies and and when we sat on the boat , sailor says , You 'll not there long , you know , we sat on the bow er on the from of the boat . |
| 8 | It was only when I did n't , and we 'd been making love without contraceptives for months and months , that I decided he must have been right . ’ |
| 9 | I mean , sorry , week er thirteen that er base six had been poured and therefore so the first thing we did was to get base six as soon as possible . |
| 10 | We 've been lending money to individuals for over 50 years so we 're certainly experienced in keeping our customers satisfied . |
| 11 | Every day this week we 've been printing colour pictures of the team captains and their strip for you to paste on to your chart . |
| 12 | We 've concentrated on market share , we 've been exercising cost reductions and we 've been continuing with investment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ You may think we 've been putting pressure on you , but — ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been washed way inland . |
| 16 | Not bad for two blokes whose life story is ‘ We 've been making music as a hobby for eight years , and now we want the money ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been doing replacement parts for many years and although that 's still a big part of our business , I wanted to sell complete , good-quality guitars and the Austin Special and the 555 are just perfect for us . |
| 18 | We 've been offered hospice places but that 's not the way we want to do things . |
| 19 | We 've been losing sleep with worry since we were told about the arrests . |
| 20 | I joined the Welcome Group and one evening , not long ago , we had been discussing commitment and how we felt about it . |
| 21 | Although the first fruits of this decision took place in l982 , the writing had been on the wall , and read by us many years before that , and it took a period of some years to find a way of moving out of polythene , which was not only ICI 's own proud invention , but an area where we had been acknowledged world leaders for many years . |
| 22 | The officers made much of us children : the Marine band played on deck and the captain fired off one of the guns , after we had been given cotton wool to stuff in our ears . |
| 23 | ‘ We had been given flight clearance . ’ |
| 24 | Certainly we had been given dominion over them , but that did n't mean we had to go cramming their little corpses down our necks like there 's no tomorrow when soya beans and wheat mountains rise up from Mother Earth like a sign saying : Meat is Murter . |
| 25 | I remember one instance , after we had been making love , when he took my hands very tenderly and turned them this way and that , pressing them gently , kissing the palms and the wrists . |
| 26 | it 's a little disappointing because we had been lying insecond place and that would have stood us in good stead for the rest of the competition |
| 27 | One night during our charter , when we had been sipping whisky under the stars , Senator Crowninshield had told me that no fat man could ever again become President of the United States . |
| 28 | Erm we have been monitoring land availability since about nineteen eighty nine , nineteen ninety and our records for Ryedale show that there are approximately fifty hectares available . |
| 29 | So far we have been discussing behaviour within groups . |
| 30 | We have been recycling rhodium and platinum for some leading car makers for years , without any of the environmental problems associated with nuclear waste . |