Example sentences of "we [vb past] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other side , ‘ some years ago we observed that quite a large proportion of the concentrated acids we sold was diluted by our customers on site and sometimes in rather unsatisfactory conditions ; small companies did n't have facilities to dilute acid safety — it generates a lot of heat . |
| 2 | Yes , now that kingdom is , is in the Lord 's prayer as we mentioned is gone into the air and |
| 3 | Away from the roads , most areas we visited were populated by Indians : Cofan , Secoya and Siona in the north , Quichua and Huaorani ( Auca ) in the central part of the region , and the Shuar in the south . |
| 4 | Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris , 1987 . |
| 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 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 7 | ‘ If we 'd been pounced upon a year ago we 'd have had maybe one good song and we would have been shit and not ready , without our style defined . ’ |
| 8 | We 'd been visited by 700 people . |
| 9 | We 'd been struck by a lightning bolt . |
| 10 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 11 | Did I tell you that we 'd been adopted by a kitten ? |
| 12 | Certainly Terry , Brian and I knew that close friends had been campaigning for us and that that experience could have changed them , just as we 'd been changed by what we had gone through . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us . |
| 14 | We 'd been told by the guardian that the bolts on the climb were ‘ good . ’ |
| 15 | When I heard reports of the changing physical shape of German women , that they were becoming a different breed of women we 'd been told from the old , rather heavy , erm motherly plain sort of woman who characterised Germany womanhood before the Second World War , well now we read that their shape and their weight and so on corresponds much more to French or British and American norms . |
| 16 | If we 'd been forced like myself I believe in a couple of years ' time , I will not be able to enjoy the pension fund that I 'm in at the moment we will have a problem , and we need to deal with that problem , and we need to raise the issue now and have a strategy , and I think it 's the G M B's to take a leading role in looking at this . |
| 17 | Almost without exception we 'd been knocked for six . |
| 18 | It was an absolute disgrace , it really was a disgrace , and so as we 'd been informed by somebody at , now do n't ask me who cos I do n't know , but from one of the public meetings we held , er they said you can phone up any time and you y the rubbish would be collected . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | The end of Act I is a recognition scene ; a recognition by the Marschallin of the kind we all experience when we realize that something we cherished is gone for ever . |
| 21 | If the complex we observed was required for PPT expression we would expect to see it in these cells . |
| 22 | In practice we proceeded at absolute snail 's pace , and every step that we took was hindered by constant misunderstanding , suspicion and argument . |
| 23 | ‘ We were doing certain things we felt were recommended by the Institute and they did n't understand that . ’ |
| 24 | Well today we were behind a G registration Jag and I turned to Paul and I said oh maybe that 's one of the Jaguars we saw being built in Coventry and I said no , no , no , corrected myself , I said could n't of been |
| 25 | The room in which we lunched was referred to as the ‘ salon ’ . |
| 26 | We had been defeated by the surreal , mock execution and chocky bickies . |
| 27 | When we got in touch with the Colonel a surprisingly easy task , the military communications network superbly efficient — it turned out we had been landed at the wrong port . |
| 28 | He asked members to support the motion so that the Attorney General as a member of the Government and as leader of this profession could convey to the Government our sense of disgust at the way we had been treated for so long ( sustained applause ) . |
| 29 | To begin with we used what paper , pens and pencils we could put together from our hand luggage and from among the belongings left in the house that we had been bundled into . |
| 30 | Before the end of July we had been visited by General Gough . |