Example sentences of "and we 've be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Senate wants to merge us into University College and we 've been told we 'll have to get rid of some of our staff — it may all be very neat and tidy for the bureaucrats , but it 's going to be absolutely disastrous for some people . |
| 2 | The charity is n't a ‘ Mickey Mouse ’ outfit by any means — our constitution is being verified by the Charity Commissioners at the moment , and we 've been informed that there 's no problem with being granted trust status . |
| 3 | We 're particularly aggrieved because we suffered very badly from the storm in 1987 and we 've been struggling in the past few years of drought to replant , ’ said Mr Myers . |
| 4 | It is very different from our usual trip programme — there is so much to do and see , and we 've been selective in choosing only the very best . |
| 5 | Our Division has been mentioned in the news , and we 've been patted on the head by Montgomery . |
| 6 | ‘ One good turn deserves another , you know , and we 've been friends long enough to act neighbourly , have n't we , Albert ? ’ |
| 7 | There 'll be blue murder if he comes back and we 've been in here . ’ |
| 8 | Ian 's temperament is something he is working on and we 've been working on all the time , but he just seems to be getting maximum publicity at the moment . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ This was a golden opportunity for us and we 've been kicked out because we were so powder puff up front . |
| 10 | Detente is a highly delicate subject right now … and we 've been getting some bad press lately . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Hours of watching Ruddock on video revealed that he had a tendency to drop his left hand low , so he was wide open to my right and we 've been working hard on a left-right combination , ’ he explained . |
| 12 | ‘ Luckily , I won £60,000 in 1991 and we 've been digging into that . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ My boyfriend 's called Michael and we 've been together seven years . |
| 14 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 15 | The England captain said : ‘ We 've done it despite a lot of injuries and we 've been without Mark Waugh for the last six matches because he 's with the Australian team in Sri Lanka . |
| 16 | Now the enemy 's all deflated and dead , I feel like all my friends and all the artists were like little pygmies and we 've been trying to kill this elephant all these years with little arrows , and finally tonight … |
| 17 | ‘ Low tide at 4.04 , ’ said Ann , ‘ and we 've been warned to leave not one second later than six , or be marooned all night . |
| 18 | And we 've been ordered to treat him likewise . |
| 19 | Erm for one world week on the twenty fourth of October and we 've been asked to do a stall there . |
| 20 | the P E teacher is supposedly collecting aluminium cans and we 've been through various daft schemes of stopping the children from throwing the cans everywhere because we 've got this coke machine . |
| 21 | Some months later I paid him back , ignoring his ridiculous caveats and quibbles about interest rates because they were frankly unintelligible , and we 've been mates and muckers ever since . |
| 22 | We 've been planning it since last year and we 've been saving every penny . |
| 23 | " Three men attacked Joe — and we 've been racking our brains trying to figure out a motive . |
| 24 | So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance . |
| 25 | and we do many things , we write to MP 's , we write to councils trying to get them banned off the land , and we 've been very successful . |
| 26 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 27 | Nogai 's fighting with T'zin , and we 've been left to see to all the training and armouring , Targoutai and I. ’ |
| 28 | Then the social worker got us this flat and Keith moved in with us , and he stayed until just before Christmas , and we 've been on our own ever since . |
| 29 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 30 | We 're passing through on the way to Manchester and we 've been to your surgery they said you were out this way … described your car . |