Example sentences of "we have be [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 2 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 3 | ‘ I had jungle-boots on , and we 'd been walking through the forest all day . |
| 4 | We 've been acting on a |
| 5 | Since we 've been thinking these past few weeks about what Christians believe , the first text would be in the er skeleton outline that we 've been taking in the Apostles ' creed , which says I believe in the Holy Ghost . |
| 6 | We 're particularly aggrieved because we suffered very badly from the storm in 1987 and we 've been struggling in the past few years of drought to replant , ’ said Mr Myers . |
| 7 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 8 | We 've been looking at the contrasting features of these two . ’ |
| 9 | So that we 're prepared within the Rural Housing Trust to look at all these ideas , and we 've been looking at the whole question , we feel that this has got to be one for the planners , the planners must be involved in identifying where these problems lie , they 're not uniform , all across the country , er and it 's something that er we therefore need to use the planning er scenario entirely and fully in order to identify where the problem lies . |
| 10 | The , the , the best defence you could make of that , if you wanted to make a defence of it , would be that in the nineteen twenties and thirties as we 've been seeing in the lectures , I 'll be saying a bit more about that some psychoanalyse was , was developing . |
| 11 | Erm one of the problems that we 've been facing in the past , certainly , in G P House is the amount of stuff that 's on the floor and therefore we have n't actually been able to tackle these things very effectively . |
| 12 | All this week we 've been reporting on the work in South America of Oxfam , which this year marks its fiftieth anniversary . |
| 13 | Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in |
| 14 | The , we 've been working with the water authorities as I said , they 've pulled all the stops out to provide the actual water resource and we 've provided the tanks and the distribution systems . |
| 15 | We 've been working on the Panch Chule expedition for a year , but it 's just the odd day basically . |
| 16 | We 've been working on the project for quite some time . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been working on the show since Christmas and hope the audiences enjoy it as much as we do , ’ said Vivien . |
| 18 | They are not actually all that difficult , as we 've been finding in the teaching that we 've been doing where indeed we have students who take a ten week course , sort of once a week , and by about week six they 're already beginning to do that , they 're beginning to work out their own problems erm puzzles and games and little language understanding programs and that 's commonplace , actually . |
| 19 | Constanza has added a scribble , ‘ We 've been running into a rather nasty situation . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've been talking of the mistress , and her strange behaviour , shepherd , ’ said the maltster . |
| 21 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 22 | We 've been talking about the events in Beirut . ’ |
| 23 | What do you think about this statue and all these trees we 've been talking about the ones around by Marks and Spencers yes ? |
| 24 | Now let me push on a bit and erm I wo n't ask you to write this down , but when we , we 've been talking about the state now what are the characteristics of the state ? |
| 25 | The governor 's thing is coming about quite useful tonight because we 've been talking about the law as regards governors and parents ' rights and what you 're supposed to ask parents |
| 26 | Well we 've been talking about the benefits which the local firms obviously gain from the work that 's going on here , but the question could be asked , what benefit do the academics in the University and also the students gain from the , the programme ? |
| 27 | We 've been talking about the amount of coverage on television and we do have one or two more callers on the same subject , but if you want to broaden the discussion out to other aspects of what 's going on in the Gulf , do feel free . |
| 28 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 29 | Because they 've come out with a report saying what we 've been saying for the |
| 30 | We 've been going since the mid 70s , staying in a mountain range on the North West coast of the island . |