Example sentences of "we [verb] [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it .
2 And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry .
3 To help ourselves we have not ignored the nostalgia trend , however , for we 've been glancing back at nineteen eighty two to guess what we think will be the most significant arts ideas for nineteen eighty three .
4 We 've been thinking over past weeks of the little account that we have in the old testament of the life of Ruth .
5 No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner .
6 I ca n't of course foretell er what 's gon na happen in Eastern Europe , but looking externally er at the lower interest rates and the er more competitive value of the pound and internally at the improved cash flow and the actions that we 've been taking over for the past couple of years and I can say that there 's now generally a more optimistic feeling in the air amongst our group companies .
7 Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis
8 They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years .
9 Erm the housing need figure we 've been working on for Greater York has been nine thousand seven hundred and that 's been based on the parishes within the Greater York study area .
10 In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession .
11 And then at the end we will run a single lecture , a kind of gee whizz lecture , something that shows the applications of the ideas we 've been working on during the day to some particularly unusual branch of physics .
12 What we 've been embarking on in the er the URC church in Shodden is er budgeting the title of my talk today is budgeting for growth .
13 And this recession that we 've been coming out of for so many years now it 's I mean it 's just turned into a bit of a joke !
14 We 've been going on like that for six to eight weeks now .
15 We 've been going on like this for months .
16 Mm , I mean we 've been going out in the daytime , when the weather 's
17 Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span .
18 We had been looking around for about five minutes or so , when a jeep containing two members of the Guardia Civil ( The National Police ) arrived .
19 To confirm his fears , when we had been driving out of Tangier docks late at night , having only just arrived on African soil , a group of men had tried to stop us .
20 The group members have not been idle during their enforced stay from Glenburrell Bridge as we have been helping out on the Society 's stall at local shows as well as building Thomas , The Tank Engine and , having purchased the show stand that we used to borrow , we are now adapting this stand for our own use at shows .
21 As I was saying earlier , paper qualifications can not guarantee to exclude the kind of evil that we have been reading about in the past few weeks .
22 We have been working out in which Schools we have the capacity to grow without incurring unacceptably high new costs .
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