Example sentences of "[noun sg] we have [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To give you some insight into the kind of research we have been doing in order to grasp the concept of innovative climate , I will present two sets of data . |
| 2 | ‘ This is the boost we have been waiting for , ’ says sales director Malcolm Prior . |
| 3 | In this chapter we 've been looking at two novels which , though they both contain their own particular stylistic innovations , nevertheless stick to the recognised , traditional shape of the novel . |
| 4 | In this chapter we have been looking at the details of the division of labour to which Ella was referring . |
| 5 | Throughout this chapter we have been coming across the coffins of nobles , all of which had repoussé coronets about the grip-plates and three-dimensional gilt copper versions — usually with gilt wooden baubles and remnants of the cap — sitting on the lid . |
| 6 | Sometimes in this chapter we have been talking about processes , sometimes about artists . |
| 7 | I I the retail 's not within what we 've been talking about this afternoon but on the other hand it does employ more people per hectare than any industry we 've been talking about as as far as as far as I understand it . |
| 8 | Ron Van Rapphorst of San Diego police said : ‘ We have located the vehicle we have been looking for . |
| 9 | This has further emphasized to ourselves with , I accept our reading of the draft of P P G thirteen , and also more work we 've been doing on land in the city , and on the potential traffic implications in particular of further growth outside the ring road . |
| 10 | The work we have been doing on the standardisation of company codes has started to pay dividends . |
| 11 | ‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices . |
| 12 | Up to this point we have been looking at some fairly clear cases of assimilation across word boundaries . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's the moment we 've been waiting for ! ’ |
| 14 | it 's the moment we 've been waiting for . |
| 15 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 18 | For the past hour we had been standing at the top of a Norfolk heath in swirling snow . |
| 19 | At a Sept. 5 news conference Afewerki accused France , Egypt and Saudi Arabia of fostering " conflict on the borders and the blackmail we have been facing during the past three months " . |
| 20 | The man gave a grunt , which was the permission we had been waiting for , and I ran all the way back to my flat to change and conduct the concert . |
| 21 | No she 's going somewhere we went to Donny other day all money we 've been getting like , when I first , she , when I first , before we got that giro for me |
| 22 | The idea that you might be the person we 've been looking for came after I 'd met you . ’ |
| 23 | Are we looking for the year two thousand , or are we looking for a hundred years later than that , or what ? — the sort of age we have been describing in this programme ? |
| 24 | All this week we 've been reporting on the work in South America of Oxfam , which this year marks its fiftieth anniversary . |
| 25 | All this week we 've been looking at life inside Grendon Prison in Buckinghamshire . |
| 26 | This week we 've been looking at what VAT on fuel and books would mean . |
| 27 | ‘ Ever since work started on the re-design of the front area we have been living in fear that we will come back on Monday morning and they will have put bricks through the windows again . ’ |
| 28 | But the idea that to talk of the ‘ meaning ’ of a word is to talk of some thing does not seem to apply to the use we have been considering of the word ‘ here ’ . |
| 29 | So , while in the past we have been placing into the care of the private sector the management of predominantly physical activities , we are now privatising parts of the local authority that are direct holders and processors of information . |
| 30 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |