Example sentences of "and we 've be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Now the enemy 's all deflated and dead , I feel like all my friends and all the artists were like little pygmies and we 've been trying to kill this elephant all these years with little arrows , and finally tonight … |
| 4 | This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up . |
| 5 | Detente is a highly delicate subject right now … and we 've been getting some bad press lately . ’ |
| 6 | It 's an , a small number of , of viruses which constantly shift , and the WHO organisation which monitors flu viruses around the world , is responsible for seeing that the vaccine is made from strains that are in circulation currently , and , and we 've been getting it right for the last ten years , so I , I think there 'll be no problem this year . |
| 7 | ‘ Luckily , I won £60,000 in 1991 and we 've been digging into that . ’ |
| 8 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 9 | Incidentally , it does n't include the disposal of Smithmark We 've also er we 've also gone in for other cost reduction exercises , for instance at er Dalton with a review of warehousing and distribution er , we should save about a million pounds in a full year and we 've been ramming home to our chief executives the need for annual payroll reviews to be geared to the profitability of the company rather than t rather than to the rate of inflation er , or even , er in , even the market place . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We 've been planning it since last year and we 've been saving every penny . |
| 12 | " Three men attacked Joe — and we 've been racking our brains trying to figure out a motive . |
| 13 | We 've concentrated on market share , we 've been exercising cost reductions and we 've been continuing with investment . |
| 14 | Ian 's temperament is something he is working on and we 've been working on all the time , but he just seems to be getting maximum publicity at the moment . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Hours of watching Ruddock on video revealed that he had a tendency to drop his left hand low , so he was wide open to my right and we 've been working hard on a left-right combination , ’ he explained . |
| 16 | So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance . |
| 17 | I er , in fact , we , yeah , we just had a problem yesterday , we started work for the Royal Scotsman and erm well we started work for them , like last year and we 've been doing jobs |
| 18 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
| 19 | And we 've been waiting and waiting and waiting now for a week to get this reconciliation at least together so that we could go out and re-count whatever was required . |
| 20 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 21 | And we 've been saying to Chief Executives , if you ca n't get the profit or you ca n't get the sales , well at least concentrate on trying to , trying to get the cash , get the debtors in , that kind of thing . |
| 22 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 23 | We got specific money , in other words , the government flagged up that in the first year , there were going to be infrastructure costs , and so there was a specific allowance made for that , and we 've been recruiting gradually , not all at once , over a period of time , as the numbers of people coming into the community care system rise , we 've been recruiting new staff there . |
| 24 | Penguin the staff reduction there does n't look particularly er high but then we were reducing staff there last year and we 've er , we 've disposed of Smithmark and the travel guides er , the warehouse and distribution system is working very well and we 've been adding distribu distribution clients there er the autumn list looks very strong indeed particularly in the U S especially and er , we 've shipped er , over two million of Stephen King 's latest book and there 's another one due in the autumn and we 're expecting to ship about two and a half million of er of , of that one . |
| 25 | So we have established a measure which we call OTIF — on time , in full — and we 've been measuring our performance in this area for the past two years . |
| 26 | ‘ You see , ’ said Mahmoud , ‘ we 've been assuming somebody is helping him and we 've been going round all his contacts . |
| 27 | The Dept of Health says ’ we are aware of the problem and we 've been pressing the medical profession to do something about it for some time . |