Example sentences of "[adv] we have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean , obviously we 've been playing this game for hours . |
2 | So we 've been starting on the , but this is a bit of a shame though because , what I like , when we , when we , when we have our three days off , it 's nice to know on your , on your last day off that still have a late night because your not back to work until the afternoon you know . |
3 | So we 've been doing that with children as well . |
4 | So we have been watching a battle between rival establishments for control of the UK . |
5 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |
6 | I 've managed to subject the boots to most conditions except a thorough soaking over several days — for once we 've been basking in sunshine for weeks in Scotland , along with the sun-drenched south east ! |
7 | Then me , yeah me and Zed were saying like because , and like we 'd been tripping the night before and everything |
8 | So you 're okay with that , ten take away A minus , ten take away A add B will be ten take away A and then take away B. But if we do ten take away like we 've been doing here , A minus B and it comes out the same as this , it 'll be ten take away plus A , just take away A , and then take away minus B. Well taking away a minus B is the same as adding B. Erm do you remember the table ? |
9 | Also we 've been arguing our claim for the sparsity factor , in other words , the national reduction of one hundred and sixty one million in ninety-four , ninety-five compared to ninety-three , ninety-four for the sparsity factor . |
10 | They may not be looking for treatment or rehabilitation but er what we can offer them is clean injecting equipment er free condoms , because H I V is transmitted sexually as well , probably more than , more often than in Oxfordshire , er and also we have been prescribing from an assessment clinic in the city centre . |
11 | You know , I 'd like to ask a question , why is it so , why is it so frightening to spoil yourself ? , why is it such a , a wrong thing to spoil yourself , erm we 've been talking about make up we 've been talking about |
12 | So far we 've been concentrating on Meryl 's reasons for hanging round on the gallery in the middle of the night ; all well and good , but what was Gladys doing there ? ’ |
13 | So far we have been discussing the role of activity in the development of referential thinking , the development of the knowledge that ‘ there is a world out there ’ . |
14 | So far we have been discussing the intentional aspect of language in our comparison of human with other animal communication . |
15 | So far we have been discussing behaviour within groups . |
16 | So far we have been looking at the type of grave-clothes provided for the very wealthy . |
17 | So far we have been looking at earthworks particular to deserted settlement sites . |
18 | So far we have been presupposing a single agent responding to a present situation and trying to guide his spontaneity by reason . |
19 | So far we have been talking about the flow of information from the company , but It can be equally important for management to receive information on how the world is thinking about the company and its activities , about rival companies and about the industry in which it operates . |
20 | So far we have been talking about the reciprocity of all discourse in the broadest of terms , connecting it to the mechanisms of dialogue only generally by saying that monologues are often constructed with the receiver in mind . |
21 | So far we have been describing the ways in which the processes of socialisation and internalisation come to bind societies together and reproduce practices and institutions . |
22 | So far we have been raising rather large issues in an abstracted and certainly general fashion which , it is to be hoped , will become clearer as they are filled out in what follows by way of the discussion of specific methods of data collection . |
23 | Now we 've been doing these or working with estate agents for twenty years . |
24 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
25 | Up to now we 've been covering one part of the neural networks . |
26 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
27 | For over a year now we 've been running a major initiative which is a systematic review of all our Sainsburys brand packaging to see where we can minimise the use of materials , but still allow the packaging to do the job of protecting the product and preserving it . |
28 | Whereas until now we have been considering changes that are forming an underclass , we now turn to examine a reform already enacted that will ensure that the underclass , and other vulnerable groups , continue to be the least privileged in old age . |
29 | Until now we have been reconstructing the system … |
30 | Well we 've been targeting as well |