Example sentences of "we have been [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do hope the members will recognise that the service has not be sitting on its laurels er between inspectors ' reports but that we have been modelling on one quarterly to er correct any omissions with respect to boundary or to make the necessary improvements in the service erm as , as recommended by the inspect and supported by members . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 4 | We have been living on the edge for a number of weeks waiting for this decision to be made known . ’ |
| 5 | All day since dawn we have been lying on a soft bed of bluebells in a wood beside a river . |
| 6 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 7 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 8 | We have been working on finishing and we got four fine goals . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But we have been working on a few things , just as we did before the first leg . |
| 10 | The th the snapshot is that we 've looked at twenty eight jobs , and out of those twenty eight jobs , if we have been working on scale fees , it would appear that we would have lost money on twenty of them . |
| 11 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
| 12 | Recently we have been working on other corpora , including a 26-million word corpus , much larger than the LOB Corpus , but more restricted , in that it consists of newspaper reports . |
| 13 | So far , we have been concentrating on describing the ‘ conversational topic ’ , but neglecting the notion of speaker 's topic . |
| 14 | So we can only concentrate our efforts and what we have been concentrating our efforts on is not turning any place into a nuclear dump , then we have been concentrating on our union 's policy which is the retention of all the facilities and job security for our members . |
| 15 | The work we have been doing on the standardisation of company codes has started to pay dividends . |