Example sentences of "we [vb base] been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well you know we 've been reading stories , little ones , that was only two I could find but there were n't any stories |
| 2 | We 've been lending money to individuals for over 50 years so we 're certainly experienced in keeping our customers satisfied . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been moving patients to other hospitals . |
| 4 | Every day this week we 've been printing stickers of the Grands Prix that Mansell won . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | . We 've been discussing guests coming to stay at your place over Christmas . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've been taking statements all day , and have discovered certain — anomalies in yours which need sorting out . |
| 8 | So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance . |
| 9 | We 've been given Lego and we 're learning to put things together in new ways . |
| 10 | In fact , we in methodism we 've been ordaining women for the last twenty-five years , and it has become as natural as breathing to us . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've been controlling games and still letting goals in , ’ he conceded . |
| 12 | Thank you , I think actually we 've been debating Mr 's amendment which seems to have widespread approval and I was ready to put that to the vote . |
| 13 | We 've concentrated on market share , we 've been exercising cost reductions and we 've been continuing with investment . |
| 14 | As he 's schools minister , we 've been scanning Mr Michael Fallon 's press releases for spelling mistakes so far to no avail . |
| 15 | We 've been incurring costs on two fronts , redundancy and also reducing factory stocks , short time working and this has brought down margins and profits , but the cash flow 's improving and despite poor conditions in Europe and Japan er , volume and unit value of orders is er , increasing slowly . |
| 16 | He says : ‘ It 's imperative we keep the confidence in our own ability to score goals , because then some of the bad luck we feel we 've been having will start to change . |
| 17 | ‘ The heavy rain after the dry weather we 've been having makes the roads more slippery , and drivers should slow down accordingly . |
| 18 | We 've been quoting Morrissey repeatedly from a Record Mirror interview and he has n't been talking about the pain of youth , the imagery of sixties films or the perception of Oscar Wilde . |
| 19 | Indeed , we 've been running courses for several years now , both for primary and secondary level , to help those teachers who are particularly enthusiastic , and also to form a sort of resource for them . |
| 20 | TWICE in 24 hours we 've been shown letters from Ossie Ardiles , written in the week of his barbaric departure . |
| 21 | ‘ Look , Ben , we 've been questioning Leslie all morning and he wo n't say a dicky bird , but we think he knows who done it . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You may think we 've been putting pressure on you , but — ’ |
| 23 | ROS : Oh no — we 've been spinning coins for as long as I remember . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've been washed way inland . |
| 25 | ‘ And you ca n't blame him for the way we 've been conceding goals . |
| 26 | That same floor we 've been crossing reaches right to here , one great caldarium , with that hypocaust deployed underneath it all the way . |
| 27 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |
| 28 | Not bad for two blokes whose life story is ‘ We 've been making music as a hobby for eight years , and now we want the money ! ’ |
| 29 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
| 30 | We 've been making inquiries and learned that Mr Putt has been seen wearing one rather similar . |