Example sentences of "we have been [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 3 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd been walking all day , brushing through great webs of giant spiders , and at one stage I looked back at Adrian Arbin , who I was with , and it was like a horror film — his face was running with blood , blood running into his eyes , down his neck , staining his shirt . |
| 5 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |
| 6 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 7 | Detente is a highly delicate subject right now … and we 've been getting some bad press lately . ’ |
| 8 | Since we 've been thinking these past few weeks about what Christians believe , the first text would be in the er skeleton outline that we 've been taking in the Apostles ' creed , which says I believe in the Holy Ghost . |
| 9 | We 've been mentioning this good housekeeping |
| 10 | We erm we 've been discussing all last week the amount of housing that has to be accommodated in Harrogate District and in North Yorkshire as as a whole . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 12 | Because it may be that you th you , you look back and say , Christ , we 've been using those standards since nineteen seventy . |
| 13 | I was lucky to have my family 's support , and soon after , I met a really nice man at work ; we 've been seeing each other ever since . |
| 14 | We 've been seeing each other for two years now and , although we have n't set a date , we are planning to get married . ’ |
| 15 | They can do erm damage to a section of the network erm that does not bring about major destruction and with this accurate bombing that we 've been seeing this kind of operation is possible . |
| 16 | We 've been combing this mountainside all week . ’ |
| 17 | Right , we 've been postponing this discussion , I know , erm because we 've not sort of felt er we 've not fitted it into previous meetings . |
| 18 | Although you see erm as we 've been suggesting any project requires that . |
| 19 | We 've been gardening this morning . |
| 20 | He praised the performance of 18-year-old Grant Watts , scorer of Palace 's first goal in a shock 2-1 win , and said : ‘ It was a night to enjoy after all the trouble we 've been having this season . |
| 21 | So please make those contacts , so that you can erm , make arrangements to discuss , obviously things of mutual concern , promptly please , to your seminars , when we will continue some of the discussions we 've been having this morning , and thank you all very much indeed . |
| 22 | Yes we did , we were talking about our General Election strategy and er we 've been planning some campaigning and training workshops and so on , and I can tell you that we 've selected a Green Party candidate for Oxford west for the General Election ; his name is Mike Woodin , and the process is going on to select someone for Oxford east , so there 's certainly going to be a strong Green presence in Oxford during the General Election . |
| 23 | Okay , so we 've been saying that , I mean clearly , I mean that , that 's good evidence to suggest that world trade in absolute terms in agricultural goods is , is increasing , but as a proportion of world trade erm , it 's er , we know , we know that , we know that it , it 's falling . |
| 24 | You 'll know more about it than me John , but er , I just think that David Lawrence er from the pavilion end is click this morning he 's bowled some very , very quick deliveries we 've been saying all along that this is a very docile pitch now and a good batting service er , er against the , but there 's been some quick deliveries this morning . |
| 25 | Good news for us but bad for them and that 'll have to be all for today , we 've been answering some of the queries that have reached us by post . |
| 26 | ‘ On things like consulting with patients and carers — we 've been doing that for years . ’ |
| 27 | We write to them normally within seven days , ask them to read it , clarifying exactly the policy they 've got , give them the option to pull out if they should so wish , and in fairness I have got to say that we 've been doing that now for the last eighteen months . |
| 28 | So we 've been doing that with children as well . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've been doing some serious thinking about that . |
| 30 | And that 's rather a pity because we 've been doing these holidays for a long time now , and I think , those people have enjoyed themselves ? |