Example sentences of "we have [be] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 We can work using the x-form faster than we can the sequence form simply because we 've been using the former for years .
2 We 've been saying the same thing for the last three years and I 've got the minutes here to prove it .
3 It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before .
4 Dear doctor , we have noticed that as a result of a press article , copy enclosed , that there 's been concern stressed by a number of general practitioners with regards the slowness of the social services controlled community care programme as an association on behalf of our residential and nursing home members we have been stating the same fact to social services who have basically denied the existence of any problem , although we hope that in the long term the social services will be able refine their system to be more efficient , as an interim measure we are offering you a direct line service .
5 We , myself and Bill , although we have been doing the same thing for more than 20 years , could not really work together .
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