Example sentences of "we [verb] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been two West Country boys sharing a desert tent in Fayid . |
| 2 | He looked up and his eyes were dark , and we were both embarrassed in a way that we would n't have been if we 'd been close together , but it was better that we should stand on our own for this . |
| 3 | ‘ It was very hard work in many ways ’ , he told me in February 1985 , ‘ and the fact that we 'd been thirteen years [ in Opposition ] meant that most of them , almost all of them , had no experience at all in government . |
| 4 | We 'd been certain that Frank had been kept with a Frenchman in the apartment we 'd been in from February to early May . |
| 5 | We 'd been married ten years , that 's always supposed to be a bad time . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ I 'm very sad because we 'd been married 20 years . |
| 7 | not since we 'd been married , but , erm , and erm , it was in the March was n't it , just before we announced our engagement . |
| 8 | And , more touching , ‘ We 'd find that , while we 'd been asleep , she 'd piled all the ornaments on top of our bed . |
| 9 | It would all have been different if we 'd been able to have children . ’ |
| 10 | We 'd been able to keep the same crew from coast to coast , he said , only because of the two rest breaks along the way . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , of course we 'd have carried on if we 'd been able to make a living at it . |
| 12 | The complication has been that because last year 's trading profits were lower than expected we did n't have any taxable profits against which to claim back this A C T so as this would be the first year in which taxable profits would arise unless we 'd not been unless we 'd been able to find some other way of dealing with it the A C T which we pay would not have been recoverable till January ninety five . |
| 13 | so in the end I said to him look we 've so really it could have perhaps done with , I suppose if we 'd been sensible it could , because it needed , the gas fire needs to come out , it does need a lot of , still really needs a lot of things doing to it . |
| 14 | We 'd been stuck here , waiting to join the main line into Queen Street , for about ten minutes . |
| 15 | British Airways staff are fantastic , whatever class you travel , and plied Kenneth with enough booze to soften the effect of two Sun journalists who approached us for a story and picture after we 'd been airborne for about eight hours . |
| 16 | If we 'd been secretive , the children would have worried more . |
| 17 | And of course it would n't if we 'd been more accurately given the address , but |
| 18 | We 'd been prepared to buy houses with flaws invisible to the naked eye , but now we 'd fallen for one with all its flaws only too obviously visible . |
| 19 | On arrival I went to the Met Office to see the TAF which we 'd been unable to obtain at Vigo , and the forecast was three at 2,800 , with no mention of stratus ! |
| 20 | If we 'd been alone , God knows what might have happened . ’ |
| 21 | After we 'd been happy , then we would have hated one another . |
| 22 | You very humbly describe yourself as an absent Pro-Chancellor , but you have taken a considerable interest in this university over the years , and we 've been grateful for it . |
| 23 | We 've done it , we 've been four years , you know |
| 24 | The salad bowls are great to look at , and great to use — they are such a good size compared with the silly little one we 've been crushing lettuce and tomato into for far too long . |
| 25 | We 've been fortunate that no one has seen us . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've been fortunate , so far , ’ the Governor said , looking down at the man lying in the bed . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've been fortunate , too , because Mike 's sister Judy has a three-year-old , and now a new baby , and lots of our friends have babies , so they 've lent us things and also been great with advice about their best buys . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've been used to fares running off without paying in the past , ’ said one . |
| 29 | Others which are perhaps a little bit of er a change from what we 've been used to doing , |
| 30 | We 've been used to it for centuries . |