Example sentences of "we have been [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Actually I was really happy about that , not just because we 'd been made Singe Of The Week , but because it was a woman reviewing the singles — and they 're a lot harder to please . |
| 2 | We 'd been providing cover for the convoy , when a vehicle went over a land mine . |
| 3 | We were half expecting someone to arrive to investigate the deaths anyway , and we 'd been keeping Fedorov under observation for some time . |
| 4 | It was only when I did n't , and we 'd been making love without contraceptives for months and months , that I decided he must have been right . ’ |
| 5 | We 've been lending money to individuals for over 50 years so we 're certainly experienced in keeping our customers satisfied . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've been moving patients to other hospitals . |
| 7 | Every day this week we 've been printing stickers of the Grands Prix that Mansell won . |
| 8 | In fact , we in methodism we 've been ordaining women for the last twenty-five years , and it has become as natural as breathing to us . |
| 9 | We 've been incurring costs on two fronts , redundancy and also reducing factory stocks , short time working and this has brought down margins and profits , but the cash flow 's improving and despite poor conditions in Europe and Japan er , volume and unit value of orders is er , increasing slowly . |
| 10 | Indeed , we 've been running courses for several years now , both for primary and secondary level , to help those teachers who are particularly enthusiastic , and also to form a sort of resource for them . |
| 11 | TWICE in 24 hours we 've been shown letters from Ossie Ardiles , written in the week of his barbaric departure . |
| 12 | ‘ You may think we 've been putting pressure on you , but — ’ |
| 13 | ROS : Oh no — we 've been spinning coins for as long as I remember . |
| 14 | Not bad for two blokes whose life story is ‘ We 've been making music as a hobby for eight years , and now we want the money ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been doing Bona-Fido for about two years but still get some guests who do n't realise they could have brought their dogs along , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I said , I said we 've been doing boundaries for the trial park today and they ran out of passes and gave us these and said they 'd be alright . |
| 17 | We 've been losing sleep with worry since we were told about the arrests . |
| 18 | It 's absolutely massive , yes , it 's a national er campaign , so we 've been recruiting people from all kinds of ways ; direct mail , er getting in touch with people who 've done it for us before , er through magazines and so on and the whole thing has been a major logistical undertaking . |
| 19 | Certainly we had been given dominion over them , but that did n't mean we had to go cramming their little corpses down our necks like there 's no tomorrow when soya beans and wheat mountains rise up from Mother Earth like a sign saying : Meat is Murter . |
| 20 | We had been quoted £60 per quare foot and reckoned out costs would be around £35 , a saving of about £25 per quare foot — £3,500 ! |
| 21 | One night during our charter , when we had been sipping whisky under the stars , Senator Crowninshield had told me that no fat man could ever again become President of the United States . |
| 22 | We had been exchanging enthusiasms for Italian opera and I was enticed by his collection of Caruso recordings . |
| 23 | Because we have been made children of God ; we carry the family likeness through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit ; we want to live so as to please our Heavenly Father ; and we enjoy his Fatherly protection and generous provision . |
| 24 | In the preceding two chapters we have been developing ways in which questions of locale and locality can be systematically introduced into social theory . |
| 25 | Production finished at the end of May and since then , as you know , we have been moving broadlooms to Elderslie and some narrow looms to Runcorn . |
| 26 | For the last 60 years we have been organising holidays to Italy , and only to Italy . |
| 27 | In England , we have been taking steps through the Housing Corporation to increase the accountability of housing associations to their tenants by , for example , promoting tenant membership of management committees , and by requiring management committees to consult much more effectively . |
| 28 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 29 | So far we have been discussing behaviour within groups . |
| 30 | We have been drawing attention to the defects of the Labour party campaign , and I shall give just one example . |