Example sentences of "we have be [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd been sitting with him in hospital keeping his mind occupied , but when our visiting times changed and he was alone he would lie there and think . |
| 2 | is the knowledge that if er , we 'd been talking about them two hundred and fifty years ago we 'd be put on trial and probably burnt to death . |
| 3 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 5 | " We 've been looking for you , " said Hazel . |
| 6 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 7 | We 've been looking for you everywhere for the past hour ! |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been looking for you these five days , and never a sign . |
| 9 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 10 | We 've been talking about them as facilitators and the need for compatibility , I think there 's also a need for every system to have a back-up of some kind , either of power or maybe a manual back-up , which in fact we were talking about the other evening . |
| 11 | Well I suppose i it means that you know the difference between right and wrong cos we 've only been We 've been talking about it further up have n't we ? |
| 12 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 13 | You know what I think er , th we 've been talking about it round about and I says , you know , they were wondering if it was a bit suspic , I said no , th , they worry to death , there 's our children who speaking like the nig-nogs ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So I just want to run through very , very quickly some of the things which will sound very familiar , because a lot of the , a lot of the information is very similar to the information we 've been putting before you in terms of the radio and television situations . |
| 16 | But on the other hand I 'm pleased the reasons they 've given for the delay are the points we 've been raising with them over the last two years . |
| 17 | We 've been waiting for you . |
| 18 | come on then we 've been waiting for you to come , come on |
| 19 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 20 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 21 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 22 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |
| 23 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 24 | Truth to tell , we have been waiting for it since Genesis 12 . |
| 25 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |