Example sentences of "we have been [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | But , after we 'd been to see Mrs Diamond , she was like you … . |
2 | We were half expecting someone to arrive to investigate the deaths anyway , and we 'd been keeping Fedorov under observation for some time . |
3 | We 've been given Lego and we 're learning to put things together in new ways . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | As he 's schools minister , we 've been scanning Mr Michael Fallon 's press releases for spelling mistakes so far to no avail . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
8 | ‘ We 've been doing Bona-Fido for about two years but still get some guests who do n't realise they could have brought their dogs along , ’ he said . |
9 | Because we 've been doing Pythagoras theorem . |
10 | We 've been playing Michael Crawford 's music on the tape , well we started because she was erm tt trying to get the tune for Love Changes Everything so this morning we decided |
11 | ‘ At least with the cancer , we had been told Thomas had a 50/50 chance , ’ says Beverley . |
12 | ‘ We have been evaluating SuperSparc capabilities for high-performance commercial application environments , and we are impressed with the results , ’ said Andrew Roberts , managing director of ICL 's mid-range systems division . |