Example sentences of "but we 've be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A. There are , but we 've been in this business for nearly 200 years and pride ourselves in the fact that we have probably dealt with every known problem that has ever arisen . |
| 2 | Not necessarily for us yet , but we 've been asked by Special Branch to take it on board . |
| 3 | Yes , the hindquarter double-muscled trait is important and is the breed 's main attribute , but we 've been looking too for stock with good overall conformation , with loin and fleshing that we feel is vital to any successful terminal sire breed . |
| 4 | Not that she 'll recognize ye , her sight 's none too good , but we 've been tellin' her for days ye 'd be coming . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But we 've been scoring as well , and that 's what we 've got to do . ’ |
| 6 | I know playing Belgium in Brussels is going to be hard but we 've been here before and drawn . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But we 've been here for thousands of years ! |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not probing , you know , Joe , but we 've been together months now , nine of them , in fact , and I know no more about you now than on the day we met , except that you come from the wilds of Northumberland . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ The plan was to have 100 people working by the end of 1992 but we 've been so successful that we achieved that by the end of 1989 , ’ McWilliams claims . |
| 11 | Well so much for the sea surface temperatures of the past , but we 've been looking at our records of the compounds in the sediments even more carefully and what we 've seen in there are molecular fingerprints which do not match those of the marine organisms . |
| 12 | ‘ But we 've been with Terry and Tom who are held by Jihad Islami , yes ? ’ |
| 13 | A more accurate term would have been desktop layout or desktop typesetting and page makeup but we 've been stuck with the words he used . |
| 14 | But we 've been honest with our people , we have not paid anyone off , in the fifteen years I 've been at , that did n't want to go . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sorry we 've taken so long to get round to you , Mrs Grogan , but we 've been very busy . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know if Alexandra has told you , but we 've been hoping very much to feature your next collection in our spring bumper issue , ’ Felicity said . |
| 17 | But we 've been involved with two specific projects that we 've worked on in conjunction with the tenants ' association , |
| 18 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |
| 19 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 20 | But we 've been unable to track down an official aid organisation which has worked with her . |
| 21 | The parish has already looked into the possibility of extending the existing church , but we 've been advised by Delyn that such an application would be rejected because of lack of parking facilities . |
| 22 | What time we were gon na be viewing houses but we 've been to see two . |
| 23 | It 's one we normally keep in the attic but we 've been keeping it down here |
| 24 | Well we 've never been this place before , but we 've been on a similar do . |
| 25 | because of the state of the country , or the state of the employment , but we 've been out , actually out with those two and they put this country down |
| 26 | But we 've been asking during this programme will the real John Major please stand up . |