Example sentences of "we have be [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 2 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 3 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 4 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 5 | Well I better not tell them because it will completely spoil their holiday but erm it 's h it 's interesting because we 've been mentioning it to other people I 'm sure they 've never . |
| 6 | We 've been watching them for weeks . ’ |
| 7 | We 've been doing this for sometime , it does n't really seem to have taken too much effect , now at the moment we 've been channelling everything through Julian and Jonathan . |
| 8 | wages cos we 've been giving ourselves under wages over the last |
| 9 | We 've been planning it since last year and we 've been saving every penny . |
| 10 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 11 | I , I think most people would feel , we 've been doing it for such a while |
| 12 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 13 | We , we 've been growing something like er , twenty five percent per annum . |
| 14 | Not that she 'll recognize ye , her sight 's none too good , but we 've been tellin' her for days ye 'd be coming . ’ |
| 15 | We 've been importing it for centuries . |
| 16 | The forecast from Livorno has spoken of increasing winds and I laid out all the chain before we rowed ashore ( feeling curiously British and eccentric using oars among so many outboards ) for the pasta and wine we had been promising ourselves since mid-morning . |
| 17 | While we had been lording it in the Solent , Alert had been making a name for herself in Shetland as a stand in for Venturous . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , yes , we have been hunting them for years . |
| 19 | Things like this should n't really surprise people because we have been telling them about what has been going on Down Under for years . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We have been plunging them into boiling water for years and it is ridiculous to say we are being cruel . |
| 21 | We have been paying them in England since 21 February and virtually a third of claims have been met . |
| 22 | We have been planning it for more than a year . |