Example sentences of "we have been [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we see we 've been saving the stamps so we had believe it or not |
| 2 | And er he did n't blame me one bit of doing that because we 'd been getting the run around . |
| 3 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 4 | Then me , yeah me and Zed were saying like because , and like we 'd been tripping the night before and everything |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | We 've been discussing the release of the three British hostages . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In recent weeks we 've been taking a look at our Sussex heritage , and asking questions about conservation and preservation in our county . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We 've been struggling a bit at Everton , especially at home , but we hope that will set us up for the rest of the season . ’ |
| 13 | Cos we 've been watching the repeat of Victoria Wood ! |
| 14 | We 've been using the words SOH CAH TOA to help remember these . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been bombarding the place since dawn . ’ |
| 16 | The first thing I learnt more or less was thkarni which means — well she said it meant — this white stork we 've been seeing a lot of . |
| 17 | We 've been planning it since last year and we 've been saving every penny . |
| 18 | We 've been driving a car like this for years . |
| 19 | She said bef , you know , she said before oh yeah , you know , when we 've been having a joke she said oh God I could do with a break from work she said , oh yeah ! |
| 20 | Aye , we we 've been having a lot of trouble with the people next door , and er |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've been keeping an eye open for you . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We 've been planning a family for a while but I would n't be surprised if the baby 's born and we have n't decided on a name , ’ she says . |
| 24 | Every day for the last month we 've been totting the Vortec back and forth to the local office , where it has been used to run an Alpha Four Database . |
| 25 | We 've been concentrating a lot maintain the links with the with the university and the St James . |
| 26 | We 've been following a group through in Glasgow who 've been H , on H R T now for twenty three years ! |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 29 | We 've been playing the records he bought . |
| 30 | ‘ We had been escorting a convoy from Halifax to the UK and were ordered to leave the convoy , refuel in Reykjavik and take up patrol of the Denmark Strait , 150 miles west of Iceland . |