Example sentences of "we have been at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 2 | They were younger than myself and er we 'd been at but er we 'd been at together . |
| 3 | They were younger than myself and er we 'd been at but er we 'd been at together . |
| 4 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , and the reason we 've got no morals is that for a long time ( 150 years ) we 've been at a loose end . ' |
| 6 | " We 've been at it — He looked at the watch on his sinewy wrist with its furring of black hair " — like nine hours . |
| 7 | We 've been at it since six . ’ |
| 8 | And it 's er er we go to Ffestiniog power station to have a drink and then come to er er well we 've been at Royal Hotel at Betsy-Coed these last years or two . |
| 9 | So I bought her some fruit pastilles again just while we were waiting for the train , but funnily enough , the last few times we 've been at the station , Bobby |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | We had been at it for three months now . |
| 13 | We had been at college together , always close , once a little in love . |
| 14 | ‘ If we had been at home Rachel might have been spending the day with us instead . ’ |
| 15 | We had been at Orange for a week and were having a kit inspection . |
| 16 | We had been at Canjuers for a month when Auriega and Herve , who were both drunk , buried Vadgama . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We had been at the wedding a full hour before I began to be curious about the whereabouts of the bride and groom . |
| 19 | Er , we had been at legislation inspection of becoming an , a costly service in terms of gross expenditure , and therefore we need to look for savings from those areas where we actually spend money , erm , and the belief was , the policy thought was that as our own homes were subject to our own direct management , to inspection by members , to both internal and external audits , erm , they were therefore better inspected than the independent sector , certainly more widely inspected , and therefore the least risk , in terms of any reduction on registration inspection would apply in that area . |
| 20 | We have been at the heart of the action . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , as we have been at pains to argue , to do so would be only to impose our own interpretation of reality on the reader . |
| 22 | Despite the fact that all are senior and serious Labour figures , since we have been at war , they have been either confined to briefs or otherwise disciplined . |
| 23 | Because of the repayments that were made of borrowing during that period , in the midst of a recession we are now in a better position to borrow prudently — than we have been at any stage in the past : to borrow prudently and to maintain our commitment to a balanced budget in the medium term . |