Example sentences of "we have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been bickering since New Year and she 'd flounced out of my city flat in early May , darkly muttering , Nevermore ! |
| 2 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 3 | I mean you 've had Sue , Sue for example tied up on and all those sort of issues , Bob 's been dealing with pr pension conversions and stuff like that for , for months on end , so we 've been dealing with other projects , all that 's happened is the work has been redirected onto a different type of project . |
| 4 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 5 | are napkins that we 've been buying in antique fairs . |
| 6 | And we 've been saying to Chief Executives , if you ca n't get the profit or you ca n't get the sales , well at least concentrate on trying to , trying to get the cash , get the debtors in , that kind of thing . |
| 7 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 8 | So System Ten is the culmination of several years of work that we 've been doing with other hardware and software vendors but most importantly with our customers . |
| 9 | Over the last few issues we 've been focusing on minor scales and their application . |
| 10 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 11 | and , and they may very well my Lord , say well we have been watching with great interest what your Lordship has been doing |
| 12 | In the last two chapters we have been looking at deserted and surviving villages . |
| 13 | Their leader , Peter Bancroft , 36 , said : ‘ We have been struggling with British Rail 's shortage of drivers for months and have christened our regular train home the ghost train . ’ |
| 14 | We have been living in exciting times and it has needed a strong hand to keep order in the town , where all the disorderly elements tried to take advantage of the situation . |
| 15 | The most recent has been from the late 1970s through the 1980s , and if we think of those years as one of only four periods of major structural change in nearly two centuries we can appreciate that we have been living in interesting times . |
| 16 | Because of our experience at Scone Park and in many other projects in the twelve years we have been working with young offenders , we , along with the other children 's charities , oppose the government 's proposals on persistent young offenders . |
| 17 | We have been working at improving race relations in Britain for over 30 years , under successive Governments . |
| 18 | Recently we have been working on other corpora , including a 26-million word corpus , much larger than the LOB Corpus , but more restricted , in that it consists of newspaper reports . |