Example sentences of "we have been [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 2 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 3 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 5 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 6 | We 've been friends for years . |
| 7 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
| 8 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 9 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |
| 10 | I suppose we 've been rivals in the past , when I had my column on the Daily Mail and he had his on the Daily Express , but we 've been rivals in the friendliest of terms . |
| 11 | I suppose we 've been rivals in the past , when I had my column on the Daily Mail and he had his on the Daily Express , but we 've been rivals in the friendliest of terms . |
| 12 | We 've been pals for a long time . |
| 13 | We had been lovers for a year or so . |
| 14 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |
| 15 | For seventy years we have been slaves to the tyrannical French . |
| 16 | ‘ We have been pioneers in many areas over the years , ’ said Dave Butterworth , managing director . |
| 17 | ‘ We have been pioneers in many areas including computational fluid dynamics in furnace design , research into compact heat exchangers , the exploitation of laser techniques in detailed flow measurement , and integrating advanced thermal design software with process simulators , ’ continues Dave Butterworth . |
| 18 | Over the past six or seven years we have been victims of the city council 's urban regeneration strategy . |