Example sentences of "we have [been] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er he did n't blame me one bit of doing that because we 'd been getting the run around . |
| 2 | Then me , yeah me and Zed were saying like because , and like we 'd been tripping the night before and everything |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd been doing the video for eight hours straight , everything was getting loose and they say , we wan na do a hand-held sequence , just go for it , run around the room and do whatever you want . |
| 4 | As far as council support goes , we 've been granted the use of both the station centre itself , so that we can have a retail outlet for furniture , bric-a-brac , books , the kind of thing that might go to landfill , but which people might very well want to use . |
| 5 | But , one of things that we are discovering is that when people complain about drafts er , we 've been switching the air conditioning up and down to balance it up to suit the individuals needs . |
| 6 | In addition to the note I gave you about the AO Development course , we 've been discussing the range of courses available , and we 've come up with the following ‘ wants list ’ . |
| 7 | We 've been discussing the release of the three British hostages . |
| 8 | We 've been telling the Rugby Union for years that we want help ; what they 're doing now is like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted . ’ |
| 9 | Cos we 've been watching the repeat of Victoria Wood ! |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been bombarding the place since dawn . ’ |
| 11 | We 've been running the management skills courses since nineteen eighty-six , and since then , more than seven hundred and fifty people , from groups such as yours , have taken a part , and we 're about to launch a phase two in the next er , year or so . |
| 12 | Thankfully we 've been spared the agony of SRV 's favourite .013 to .058 strings ; the reissue comes with a much more manageable .010 to .046 set , and it 's been set up with an action considerably lower than the man 's own and at the 12th fret . |
| 13 | For years we 've been told the Government is pledged to reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 14 | er sent us a photograph after the war was over , but since then , since we 've tried to find him , we 've been told the man 's never existed at all . |
| 15 | I mean we all know it , and we all know there 's a lot on this list which are most unpalatable , and they 're only there because we 've been set the task of reaching a particular sum of money , and er , if we had the choice we 'd be going in the reverse direction , and , and adding . |
| 16 | We had been taught the history of the organisation , and each day were learning more about its curious codes of morality and behaviour . |
| 17 | Up by where we had been tipping the spoil was an area of hard-standing for a car , and some benevolent genius ( probably our builder friend ) had laid down sheets of open-weave chipboard over the soil , so the wheels would n't sink in . |
| 18 | While we have been patrolling the chef has been woken , and breakfast awaits our return . |
| 19 | We have been exploring the idea that Protestantism helped to create a climate in which the scientific enterprise could gain momentum . |
| 20 | So far , we have been taking the sound recording very much for granted . |
| 21 | We have been considering the problem for some time — — unlike the right hon. Gentleman , who has only just discovered it . |
| 22 | We have been considering the subject of history . |
| 23 | So far , we have been considering the equity implications of a tax . |
| 24 | Until now we have been reconstructing the system … |
| 25 | But we have been using the term ‘ performing ’ for what the actor does — an act of describing to non-participants who are present as spectators . |
| 26 | We have been discussing the DLA scheme , which is good in principle . |
| 27 | Of course , we have been discussing the problem in a very abstract manner , in both the state-owned and the state-regulated cases . |
| 28 | Saints secretary , Geoff Sutcliffe , said : ‘ We have been discussing the situation with Mike for some weeks now , but he wishes to leave and we will advertise the job in this country and abroad . ’ |
| 29 | We have been discussing The Outsider by Camus . |
| 30 | So far we have been discussing the role of activity in the development of referential thinking , the development of the knowledge that ‘ there is a world out there ’ . |