Example sentences of "[adv] we have be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And for too long we 've been misled into believing that manufacturing and industry had become unimportant .
2 So we 've been starting on the , but this is a bit of a shame though because , what I like , when we , when we , when we have our three days off , it 's nice to know on your , on your last day off that still have a late night because your not back to work until the afternoon you know .
3 So we 've been left with no other avenue but to go to law .
4 But I wish it had n't been tonight , for tonight we have been invited to Gemma 's house for supper .
5 Somehow we 've been transported to another world . ’
6 And just finally , on Friday we are in to the we 've been invited into a bags competition , you know , that 's after the bags actually means bookmakers afternoon greyhound services , and we race that every Friday as you know erm anyway we 've been invited to erm a national championship involving the other bags tracks that erm involved in this erm and so we stage our two heats on Friday .
7 I 've managed to subject the boots to most conditions except a thorough soaking over several days — for once we 've been basking in sunshine for weeks in Scotland , along with the sun-drenched south east !
8 ONCE more we 've been overwhelmed by demo tapes from local bands so this week , Off the Record 's Steve Hack and Andrew Hartley turn up the office music system and review the latest in local sounds .
9 They may not be looking for treatment or rehabilitation but er what we can offer them is clean injecting equipment er free condoms , because H I V is transmitted sexually as well , probably more than , more often than in Oxfordshire , er and also we have been prescribing from an assessment clinic in the city centre .
10 So far we 've been concentrating on Meryl 's reasons for hanging round on the gallery in the middle of the night ; all well and good , but what was Gladys doing there ? ’
11 So far we have been looking at the type of grave-clothes provided for the very wealthy .
12 So far we have been looking at earthworks particular to deserted settlement sites .
13 So far we have been talking about the flow of information from the company , but It can be equally important for management to receive information on how the world is thinking about the company and its activities , about rival companies and about the industry in which it operates .
14 So far we have been talking about the reciprocity of all discourse in the broadest of terms , connecting it to the mechanisms of dialogue only generally by saying that monologues are often constructed with the receiver in mind .
15 We both wanted to win , I said , and now we 've been saved from temptation .
16 Now we 've been approached by Irish Railway with regard , they 've got something like thirty million pounds from the to upgrade line from Dublin to Belfast .
17 Now we 've been told by , in reports that we 've got five , six hundred up to ni , we 're gon na have nine hundred vacancies this is Mr
18 Now we 've been asking for this for years .
19 For some thirty years now we have been swamped with books , journals , articles and debates on the theory of cultural politics and the politics of culture .
20 Well we 've been talking about the benefits which the local firms obviously gain from the work that 's going on here , but the question could be asked , what benefit do the academics in the University and also the students gain from the , the programme ?
21 Well we 've been planning for it for something like eleven months , with a small planning team , but at its height , just before Conference , there were a total of seventy officers involved .
22 and , and they may very well my Lord , say well we have been watching with great interest what your Lordship has been doing
23 come on then we 've been waiting for you to come , come on
24 And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us .
25 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 .
26 Yet we have been programmed to be curious , to question , to probe and to seek to solve riddles .
27 One is , none of the departments are resourced to give this a lot of attention , and secondly we have been waiting for further guidance from the Government on the outcome , particularly from local government , in respect of agenda twenty-one .
28 More recently we have been joined by East Sussex County Council , The Borough of Hove , The British Council and now we welcome also Lewes District Council .
29 Recently we have been working on other corpora , including a 26-million word corpus , much larger than the LOB Corpus , but more restricted , in that it consists of newspaper reports .
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