Example sentences of "we have been [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 3 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
| 4 | Recently we 'd been taking ten minutes a night off it in order to have more time in the pub . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'd been walking all day , brushing through great webs of giant spiders , and at one stage I looked back at Adrian Arbin , who I was with , and it was like a horror film — his face was running with blood , blood running into his eyes , down his neck , staining his shirt . |
| 6 | We 've come to Jesus Christ , he 's forgiven us our sins , we 've been made new creatures , we are saved according to Athesians two eight . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 8 | Because it may be that you th you , you look back and say , Christ , we 've been using those standards since nineteen seventy . |
| 9 | We are ready , we 've been eating raw meat and some of us can still move which is a major bonus to us |
| 10 | I was lucky to have my family 's support , and soon after , I met a really nice man at work ; we 've been seeing each other ever since . |
| 11 | We 've been seeing each other for two years now and , although we have n't set a date , we are planning to get married . ’ |
| 12 | They can do erm damage to a section of the network erm that does not bring about major destruction and with this accurate bombing that we 've been seeing this kind of operation is possible . |
| 13 | We 've been combing this mountainside all week . ’ |
| 14 | Right , we 've been postponing this discussion , I know , erm because we 've not sort of felt er we 've not fitted it into previous meetings . |
| 15 | Although you see erm as we 've been suggesting any project requires that . |
| 16 | We 've been gardening this morning . |
| 17 | That 's what we 've been asked this morning . |
| 18 | He praised the performance of 18-year-old Grant Watts , scorer of Palace 's first goal in a shock 2-1 win , and said : ‘ It was a night to enjoy after all the trouble we 've been having this season . |
| 19 | So please make those contacts , so that you can erm , make arrangements to discuss , obviously things of mutual concern , promptly please , to your seminars , when we will continue some of the discussions we 've been having this morning , and thank you all very much indeed . |
| 20 | Thirdly that there is no requirement to demonstrate a need to locate development in open countryside erm and we 've been reminded this morning that erm one of the erm flaws in the policy put forward back in nineteen seventy nine or eighty erm appears to be that it erm required , certainly in the explanatory memorandum , that the development be erm essential erm to er essentially have a countryside location . |
| 21 | Yes we did , we were talking about our General Election strategy and er we 've been planning some campaigning and training workshops and so on , and I can tell you that we 've selected a Green Party candidate for Oxford west for the General Election ; his name is Mike Woodin , and the process is going on to select someone for Oxford east , so there 's certainly going to be a strong Green presence in Oxford during the General Election . |
| 22 | No er we 've been told that Radio Leicester , our colleagues here at Radio Leicester tell us that there 's a bit of a delay in sending out C Ds . |
| 23 | Up to now we 've been covering one part of the neural networks . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've been making great progress . ’ |
| 25 | I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards . |
| 26 | Er well it 's not a new thing , we 've be we 've been making ceramic ball bearings for a while |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , actually we 've been doing two checks a day , because Faye felt happier about that . |
| 28 | And that 's rather a pity because we 've been doing these holidays for a long time now , and I think , those people have enjoyed themselves ? |
| 29 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
| 30 | We 've been doing French art as well , so anyway it 's an afternoon out that 's what I |