Example sentences of "we have [been] [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Well we see we 've been saving the stamps so we had believe it or not
2 Many times in this council when we 've been discussing more important points , when we 've been discussing the needs of people who have real needs , we have not been able to have our priority we have not been able to have our priority because we could not afford it .
3 We 've been using the words SOH CAH TOA to help remember these .
4 Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries .
5 We 've been playing the records he bought .
6 We had been reading the poems of a Greek poet in French translation together .
7 For some years at Tesco , we have been collecting the boxes in which our products are delivered to stores and some of the paper that we use in our offices for re-cycling .
8 In this section we have been considering the properties of hierarchies in general .
9 So far we have been describing the ways in which the processes of socialisation and internalisation come to bind societies together and reproduce practices and institutions .
10 on a limited number of schemes we have been doing the estimates for four or five years
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