Example sentences of "we have be [v-ing] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ they continue , ‘ we 've been reading your columns and we 're just a little bit worried that you might mean it when you say that the European Community is a fraudulent delusion ; the German economy is kaput ; the French are morally bankrupt ; racism is becoming endemic ; America 's had it ; Britain 's in for five years of total chaos and the middle-classes will soon be taking to the streets . |
| 2 | ‘ I reckon we 've been wasting our time . ’ |
| 3 | But in promoting it to MPs we 've been drawing their attention to the kinds of organizations which in turn in their eyes just sort of represent that pyramid or structure of votes that . |
| 4 | Also we 've been arguing our claim for the sparsity factor , in other words , the national reduction of one hundred and sixty one million in ninety-four , ninety-five compared to ninety-three , ninety-four for the sparsity factor . |
| 5 | ‘ In Portugal we 've been restricting our developments to Lisbon and the North , ’ Vitor went on , ‘ but recently my board and I made the decision to bring the d'Arcos style to the Algarve . ’ |
| 6 | We 've been selling our wholesaler shoulder rates when we could easily have achieved high-season . |
| 7 | We 've been doing our tricks ai n't we ? |
| 8 | " Three men attacked Joe — and we 've been racking our brains trying to figure out a motive . |
| 9 | So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance . |
| 10 | So we have established a measure which we call OTIF — on time , in full — and we 've been measuring our performance in this area for the past two years . |
| 11 | After two pitches I suffered one of those inexplicable aberrations and instead of following the blatantly curving crack into which we had been cramming our limbs for the last 60ft I launched up an unerringly straight vertical groove above the belay . |
| 12 | That is the right way to help people , it is the right way to achieve long-term prosperity for this country and it is the way in which we have been developing our policies . |
| 13 | ‘ Sir , we have been seeking his permission for a long time ; he will not give it . |
| 14 | But mothers of the four told the council : ‘ We have been funding our children 's special education — £1,500 monthly per child plus travel arrangements — since January 1993 . |
| 15 | So we can only concentrate our efforts and what we have been concentrating our efforts on is not turning any place into a nuclear dump , then we have been concentrating on our union 's policy which is the retention of all the facilities and job security for our members . |
| 16 | Our French Canadian friends have been very good company for us ( actually , the woman , Dorothy , is Scottish by birth and upbringing ) , and we have been improving our French at the breakfast table , so even if ( as I fear ) we shall come home unable to speak more than ‘ hullo ’ ‘ goodbye ’ and ‘ thank you ’ in Chinese , at least our French will be a bit better . |