Example sentences of "we have [be] [v-ing] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 2 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
| 3 | By investing some time and trouble in learning to capture and interpret your own dreams , you may well gain insight into those aspects of your life that we 've been discussing throughout this chapter — some of your needs as living , loving , sexual being , surviving , as we all must , in complex relationships with other people . |
| 4 | Anyway erm we 've been hearing on this programme recently of course that er people are against hunting against fishing er they say it 's cruel . |
| 5 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 6 | Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well . |
| 7 | No Sally 's new at the job , we 've been working at this for for on on the technical front for some time , now let's just sit down and and work out what we 're gon na do . |
| 8 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 9 | I think perhaps the council will now see why I 'm getting so frustrated and it 's because we 've been talking about this for over twelve months . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We 've been practising on this wicket . |
| 12 | But we 've been asking during this programme will the real John Major please stand up . |
| 13 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 14 | We 've been selling in this area fairly consistently across estate agents |
| 15 | out of what we 've been doing with this . |
| 16 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
| 17 | The result was an urban sociology which came very close to that which we have been developing in this book . |
| 18 | What should you do about old hurts , the catalogues of personal dramas we have been unearthing in this chapter ? |
| 19 | This notion is , of course , implicit in the construction of the sets of features of context which we have been considering in this chapter . |
| 20 | We can now state the central result of applying the rational expectations hypothesis to the aggregate demand — aggregate supply model that we have been using in this chapter . |
| 21 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Drouot chairman Joel-Marie Millon said : ‘ We have been asking for this measure for years . |
| 22 | ‘ We have been asking for this specialist help at the Memorial hospital for a long time now , but there has been no movement from the health authority over this matter . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been involved in football for 24 years and we have been talking about this problem for all that time . |
| 24 | The aspects of energy that we have been talking about this evening erm are part of your course , are they discussed in this form by the students taking your course ? |
| 25 | There is less reason to baulk at the term referent , although a referent is , by definition , something outside language , and although we should prefer to speak of syntactic entities in order to keep in harmony with the assumptions we have been following throughout this text ; however the latter are the linguistic correlates of what are perceived as extra-linguistic referents , and the patterns of intensional relations are exactly the same whether there is an external referent or not . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | ‘ We have been working toward this end . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
| 29 | If inflation is too much money pursuing too few goods , it does not follow that we must — as we have been doing in this country — reduce the supply of money all the time and thus have the disastrous consequences for industry that have occurred . |