Example sentences of "we have [adv] been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd really been looking forward to our trip to the Brecon Beacons . |
| 2 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , Pip , ’ replied Joe , ‘ how we 've both been looking forward to working together . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose we 've both been racing long enough now to know racing is racing . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've both been working so hard that this break has given us the opportunity for a second honeymoon , ’ he told her smoothly . |
| 6 | And we 've generally been moving already with our big investment that we 've already got in Child Care , let's not forget that , towards this philosophy of that 's enshrined in the Children Act , which is building up parental responsibility and encouraging and supporting parents containing their own children , rather than being forced to give them up . |
| 7 | We 've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership . |
| 8 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
| 9 | But if we had not been advancing properly — being there just ahead of the main party to iron out any difficulties — the result could have been a very serious error in terms of local coverage , with potentially unhappy consequences . |
| 10 | We had n't been getting on too well , you see . |
| 11 | Jennifer had been restless and we had n't been getting on very well . |
| 12 | I was indeed rather dubious about the whole idea , but we had n't been getting very far and there seemed to be no harm in just finding out some more about it . |
| 13 | I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything . |
| 14 | Is it because we have not been speaking out when we should have at injustice , not proclaiming the truth , not listening to our watchmen , not praying , not doing , not sending and not CARING ? |
| 15 | ‘ We have not been trading profitably there for quite some and there comes a point when one has to say enough is enough . ’ |
| 16 | We have n't been getting on too well lately . ’ |
| 17 | and I was thinking cor we say we have n't been doing very well , but look at that week there ! |
| 18 | So we have n't been playing long |
| 19 | However , this result does not carry through in the same way to the cases we have just been discussing where managerial utility depends on effort as well as income . |
| 20 | ‘ We were together for a long time but we grew apart and we have both been working hard . ’ |
| 21 | For good measure , and , presumably in case anybody thinks he is indulging in the negative campaigning we have all been hearing so much about , he praises the Lib Dems as offering a ‘ more egalitarian , democratic and ecologically responsible [ manifesto ] than Labour 's ’ . |