Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] our [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered if she had been watching our fight . |
| 2 | ‘ I reckon we 've been wasting our time . ’ |
| 3 | Also we 've been arguing our claim for the sparsity factor , in other words , the national reduction of one hundred and sixty one million in ninety-four , ninety-five compared to ninety-three , ninety-four for the sparsity factor . |
| 4 | ‘ In Portugal we 've been restricting our developments to Lisbon and the North , ’ Vitor went on , ‘ but recently my board and I made the decision to bring the d'Arcos style to the Algarve . ’ |
| 5 | We 've been selling our wholesaler shoulder rates when we could easily have achieved high-season . |
| 6 | We 've been doing our tricks ai n't we ? |
| 7 | " Three men attacked Joe — and we 've been racking our brains trying to figure out a motive . |
| 8 | So we have established a measure which we call OTIF — on time , in full — and we 've been measuring our performance in this area for the past two years . |
| 9 | After two pitches I suffered one of those inexplicable aberrations and instead of following the blatantly curving crack into which we had been cramming our limbs for the last 60ft I launched up an unerringly straight vertical groove above the belay . |
| 10 | That is the right way to help people , it is the right way to achieve long-term prosperity for this country and it is the way in which we have been developing our policies . |
| 11 | But mothers of the four told the council : ‘ We have been funding our children 's special education — £1,500 monthly per child plus travel arrangements — since January 1993 . |
| 12 | So we can only concentrate our efforts and what we have been concentrating our efforts on is not turning any place into a nuclear dump , then we have been concentrating on our union 's policy which is the retention of all the facilities and job security for our members . |
| 13 | Our French Canadian friends have been very good company for us ( actually , the woman , Dorothy , is Scottish by birth and upbringing ) , and we have been improving our French at the breakfast table , so even if ( as I fear ) we shall come home unable to speak more than ‘ hullo ’ ‘ goodbye ’ and ‘ thank you ’ in Chinese , at least our French will be a bit better . |
| 14 | We went to the er B M A or the G M C I 'm not quite sure which and asked if we could could approach er doctors for this and they 've been snapping our hands off ever since . |
| 15 | Even though they 've been squandering our money now . |
| 16 | It was then that I discovered that they had been keeping our group under surveillance and noting down the registration numbers of cars parked outside the meeting place . |
| 17 | ‘ Although if you read the American papers , you can see that they have been accusing our troops of committing ‘ atrocities ’ in Palestine . |