Example sentences of "we have [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | We 'd never been alone together for so long before . |
2 | We 'd always been boastful , conspicuous , triumphalist in our love ; now we had to tell the World . |
3 | ‘ We 'd only been married five years when he died . |
4 | We had a really marvellous holiday in October — three whole weeks , much longer than we 'd ever been able to have while Michael was working . |
5 | Erm but we 've also been involved with p with specific projects with the tenants group . |
6 | We 've also been able to have a great deal more equality . |
7 | It would mean I mean we 've just been involved with one of the hospital because there 's an audit commission report on costs to hospital services . |
8 | That is probably the worst one day figure which happened , as I say , combination of war and the snow , when the shops were pretty well closed off , and yes we certainly saw figures that , on a day for day basis to last year , they were seventy five per cent down , but cumulative I mean the position 's much better than that erm nowhere near that sort of figure , and erm we are very confident that the summer market for overseas holidays will recover steadily and we 'd be very surprised if , by the end of September , we 're more than five or six per cent down on summer holiday bookings compared to last year , and we 're confident enough to have brought back our campaigns and our advertising starts this week , and we 've even been confident enough to announce to our staff that their annual salary review will take place on the first of April as scheduled . |
9 | But I think , we 've not been good attracting women into services , I think , the responsibility that a woman drug user has over child care and a whole range of other things that male drug users do n't have . |
10 | We 've not been long here really have we ? |
11 | For the future for erm , for record , we 've not been able in the past to know how people spoke only from books , dictionaries and try to describe how people said things , erm , but this is a living record and I 'm getting more and more embarrassed as the minutes go by and those of you who are doing drama this afternoon , anybody doing drama ? |
12 | Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time . |
13 | We are having , we , we are at the moment reviewing all our traffic calming er requests because there are a whole load of them and in fact some of them we 've not been able to proceed as quickly as others so we , we need to look at the whole thing |
14 | It has been difficult while they 've been doing their exams , so we 've not been able to get them together as much as I would have liked . |
15 | because we 've not been able to talk to people |
16 | ‘ I 've been doing lots of shouting recently and we 've both been unhappy . |
17 | ‘ We 've both been alone for such a long time I do n't honestly know whether our marriage would survive if we were together every day . ’ |
18 | ‘ Out of doors is the best place for Brownies , really , but we 've only been able to be out of doors so much because of this hot summer . |
19 | In past years erm in the British Isles especially with the British Met Office , we 've only been able really to study part of the atmosphere over the northern hemisphere . |
20 | ‘ And my feelings are telling me that we 've all been wrong about what I want to do . |
21 | ‘ I know now that we 've all been wrong about what I want to do with my — ’ |
22 | While we 've all been quick to condemn guitar manufacturers for being too timid to boldly go where no other has gone before design-wise , I found myself unwilling to applaud the Valley Arts Carlton for its daring to be different , but not being able to understand exactly why . |
23 | ‘ You were very tired , ’ Adam said , ‘ and we 've all been worried about Elinor . ’ |
24 | We 've all been worried about her . |
25 | Lord Mayor , we 've always been opposed to Trusts because of their independent nature which we see as really making it impossible because of that very nature to plan for health care properly . |
26 | We 've … we 've always been close , but more so since Harry went . |
27 | We 've always been close , but we 've got a different relationship now . |
28 | ‘ We 've always been close . ’ |
29 | Erm we 've always been involved with the flats , |
30 | We 've always been concerned with self-improvement , slowly re-building and extending our steadings and houses . |