Example sentences of "we [verb] be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Erm so maybe we could we 've been using sodium a lot try calcium because it 's interesting cos it 's got a double one a double positive negative is it ?
2 I feel some drivers have been very , very lucky and the last thing we want is to have complacency creeping in .
3 The two things are very different , and yet if all we want is to produce consent , it can be got in either way .
4 What we want is fighting talk , and fighting spirit , I want Macca to prove me wrong that he is not a big girl 's blouse .
5 pounds but we are prepared to reduce spending by three hundred thousand pounds and what we seek is to enjoy problems .
6 ‘ Actually I was really happy about that , not just because we 'd been made Singe Of The Week , but because it was a woman reviewing the singles — and they 're a lot harder to please .
7 We 'd been providing cover for the convoy , when a vehicle went over a land mine .
8 We 'd been drinking vin blanc and supping pork pies and and when we sat on the boat , sailor says , You 'll not there long , you know , we sat on the bow er on the from of the boat .
9 And the lessons learned were , how to manage projects better than we 'd been managing projects before .
10 God in heaven , you 'd think we 'd been eating leftovers .
11 But , after we 'd been to see Mrs Diamond , she was like you … .
12 We were half expecting someone to arrive to investigate the deaths anyway , and we 'd been keeping Fedorov under observation for some time .
13 It was only when I did n't , and we 'd been making love without contraceptives for months and months , that I decided he must have been right . ’
14 The difficulty we face is to select w k > θ making LP ( w 1 , … , w p ) bounded .
15 So , in order to avoid what we believe is hurting others , we end up hurting ourselves , with the final result that because we can not do what we want , we grow bitter and resentful .
16 I took her up on this , and the first thing we did was to bring Southall and Kizzy home .
17 I mean , sorry , week er thirteen that er base six had been poured and therefore so the first thing we did was to get base six as soon as possible .
18 And what I suggest we do is seeing Georgina 's here we send you through to see Georgina and she can , if she 's got time , we can briefly run through one or two types .
19 you know , there 's no vow there , but all we do is join hands together , share blessings to both of us , and no vow , we never make any vow but they made a blessing for us .
20 So the first thing we do is to change hands , that 's good , push , wait change sides , straighten up the tiller , look where you 're going that 's fine .
21 So the first thing we do is to change hands , then push , wait until the boom comes across and change sides and straighten up .
22 well you know we 've been reading stories , little ones , that was only two I could find but there were n't any stories
23 We 've been lending money to individuals for over 50 years so we 're certainly experienced in keeping our customers satisfied .
24 We 've been moving patients to other hospitals .
25 Every day this week we 've been printing stickers of the Grands Prix that Mansell won .
26 Every day this week we 've been printing colour pictures of the team captains and their strip for you to paste on to your chart .
27 . We 've been discussing guests coming to stay at your place over Christmas .
28 We 've been taking statements all day , and have discovered certain — anomalies in yours which need sorting out .
29 So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance .
30 We 've been given Lego and we 're learning to put things together in new ways .
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