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 | ‘ You know , Pip , ’ replied Joe , ‘ how we 've both been looking forward to working together . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose we 've both been racing long enough now to know racing is racing . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've both been working so hard that this break has given us the opportunity for a second honeymoon , ’ he told her smoothly . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We 've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ We were together for a long time but we grew apart and we have both been working hard . ’ |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |