Example sentences of "we have [been] [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we see we 've been saving the stamps so we had believe it or not |
| 2 | And er he did n't blame me one bit of doing that because we 'd been getting the run around . |
| 3 | Then me , yeah me and Zed were saying like because , and like we 'd been tripping the night before and everything |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd been doing the video for eight hours straight , everything was getting loose and they say , we wan na do a hand-held sequence , just go for it , run around the room and do whatever you want . |
| 5 | But , one of things that we are discovering is that when people complain about drafts er , we 've been switching the air conditioning up and down to balance it up to suit the individuals needs . |
| 6 | In addition to the note I gave you about the AO Development course , we 've been discussing the range of courses available , and we 've come up with the following ‘ wants list ’ . |
| 7 | We 've been discussing the release of the three British hostages . |
| 8 | Many times in this council when we 've been discussing more important points , when we 've been discussing the needs of people who have real needs , we have not been able to have our priority we have not been able to have our priority because we could not afford it . |
| 9 | We 've been telling the Rugby Union for years that we want help ; what they 're doing now is like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted . ’ |
| 10 | Cos we 've been watching the repeat of Victoria Wood ! |
| 11 | We 've been using the words SOH CAH TOA to help remember these . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've been bombarding the place since dawn . ’ |
| 13 | We 've been running the management skills courses since nineteen eighty-six , and since then , more than seven hundred and fifty people , from groups such as yours , have taken a part , and we 're about to launch a phase two in the next er , year or so . |
| 14 | Every day for the last month we 've been totting the Vortec back and forth to the local office , where it has been used to run an Alpha Four Database . |
| 15 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 16 | We 've been playing the records he bought . |
| 17 | We had been reading the poems of a Greek poet in French translation together . |
| 18 | Up by where we had been tipping the spoil was an area of hard-standing for a car , and some benevolent genius ( probably our builder friend ) had laid down sheets of open-weave chipboard over the soil , so the wheels would n't sink in . |
| 19 | While we have been patrolling the chef has been woken , and breakfast awaits our return . |
| 20 | We have been exploring the idea that Protestantism helped to create a climate in which the scientific enterprise could gain momentum . |
| 21 | So far , we have been taking the sound recording very much for granted . |
| 22 | For some years at Tesco , we have been collecting the boxes in which our products are delivered to stores and some of the paper that we use in our offices for re-cycling . |
| 23 | We have been considering the problem for some time — — unlike the right hon. Gentleman , who has only just discovered it . |
| 24 | In this section we have been considering the properties of hierarchies in general . |
| 25 | We have been considering the subject of history . |
| 26 | So far , we have been considering the equity implications of a tax . |
| 27 | Until now we have been reconstructing the system … |
| 28 | But we have been using the term ‘ performing ’ for what the actor does — an act of describing to non-participants who are present as spectators . |
| 29 | We have been discussing the DLA scheme , which is good in principle . |
| 30 | Of course , we have been discussing the problem in a very abstract manner , in both the state-owned and the state-regulated cases . |