Example sentences of "we [verb] been [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well but as Father 's Day approached , Joe made it clear that I could n't hope to be any more than just second best |
| 2 | ‘ And I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well together . ’ |
| 3 | We 'd been turning on and off roads all along , dodging checkpoints I guessed . |
| 4 | The sad thing is that if all the OAPs and others who genuinely ca n't afford the extra withheld that portion of their poll tax , my God , would n't we have been pounced on as lawbreakers and worse and dealt with ten times faster than the poll tax rebels who withhold purely for so-called political reasons . |
| 5 | And we 've been waylaid on |
| 6 | We 've been taken on as a whole gang with lots of others , to make roads for those who are chopping down the trees in Wychwood Forest . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , we 've been working on digitally remastering them all . |
| 8 | It 's something we 've been working on ever since they both left Liverpool , ’ joked a smiling Kendall afterwards . |
| 9 | Erm the housing need figure we 've been working on for Greater York has been nine thousand seven hundred and that 's been based on the parishes within the Greater York study area . |
| 10 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 11 | whatever we 've been working on then , yeah . |
| 12 | And I think that to a large extent erm an alternative wording that that we 've been working on would erm meet those concerns . |
| 13 | And then at the end we will run a single lecture , a kind of gee whizz lecture , something that shows the applications of the ideas we 've been working on during the day to some particularly unusual branch of physics . |
| 14 | Other fields that we 've been working on particularly are the educational field and the content and scale of education , it 's link with the unemployment problem and it would take too long really to list the whole range . |
| 15 | What we 've been embarking on in the er the URC church in Shodden is er budgeting the title of my talk today is budgeting for growth . |
| 16 | We 've been going on like that for six to eight weeks now . |
| 17 | Right , I think we 've been going on long enough and I think you 've been sitting there long enough , ha |
| 18 | We 've been going on like this for months . |
| 19 | ‘ If anything it has re-inforced what we have been working on , particularly retaining depth , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ One of the things we have been working on is getting men back behind the ball , ’ he said and when Stanger did just that in retrieving a kick-ahead from Nadroga , Nicol , Appleson ( twice ) and Turnbull , too , made sure the winger was not in isolation , for Ian Corcoran to boot on delicately and claim a grand try , Appleson converting . |
| 21 | ‘ One of the things we have been working on is getting men back behind the ball , ’ he said and when Stanger did just that in retrieving a kick-ahead from Nadroga , Nicol , Appleson ( twice ) and Turnbull , too , made sure the winger was not in isolation , for Ian Corcoran to boot on delicately and claim a grand try , Appleson converting . |
| 22 | Lord Rix farce actor Brian Rix has accused them of not fighting back , saying : ‘ We rush like lemmings to the water 's edge , devising fatuous so-called policies … which are feeble attempts to cover up the fact that we have been defecated on from a great height . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I thought I 'd ring and congratulate you on managing at last to see what some of us have been going on about for all these years . ’ |