Example sentences of "we have been [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been acting on a |
| 2 | Anyway erm we 've been hearing on this programme recently of course that er people are against hunting against fishing er they say it 's cruel . |
| 3 | All this week we 've been reporting on the work in South America of Oxfam , which this year marks its fiftieth anniversary . |
| 4 | Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in |
| 5 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 6 | Ian 's temperament is something he is working on and we 've been working on all the time , but he just seems to be getting maximum publicity at the moment . ’ |
| 7 | We 've been working on the Panch Chule expedition for a year , but it 's just the odd day basically . |
| 8 | We 've been working on the project for quite some time . |
| 9 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 10 | For the past 10 years we 've been working on synthesising the chemical ; now we 're trying to see if the European Yew will provide the starter material for producing anti-cancer activity . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've been working on the show since Christmas and hope the audiences enjoy it as much as we do , ’ said Vivien . |
| 12 | So far we 've been concentrating on Meryl 's reasons for hanging round on the gallery in the middle of the night ; all well and good , but what was Gladys doing there ? ’ |
| 13 | We 've been practising on this wicket . |
| 14 | This has further emphasized to ourselves with , I accept our reading of the draft of P P G thirteen , and also more work we 've been doing on land in the city , and on the potential traffic implications in particular of further growth outside the ring road . |
| 15 | So if that management committee decides in a year 's time or two year 's time thank you when when we 've been rolling on a bit and a lot of this has died down that they want a single headed project . |
| 16 | So we 've been starting on the , but this is a bit of a shame though because , what I like , when we , when we , when we have our three days off , it 's nice to know on your , on your last day off that still have a late night because your not back to work until the afternoon you know . |
| 17 | Over the last few issues we 've been focusing on minor scales and their application . |
| 18 | We had been going on the idea that whoever killed her lunged at her when she was standing up : a thrust parallel to the ground . ’ |
| 19 | We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales . |
| 20 | We had been working on ideas of time and speed . |
| 21 | I do hope the members will recognise that the service has not be sitting on its laurels er between inspectors ' reports but that we have been modelling on one quarterly to er correct any omissions with respect to boundary or to make the necessary improvements in the service erm as , as recommended by the inspect and supported by members . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 24 | We have been living on the edge for a number of weeks waiting for this decision to be made known . ’ |
| 25 | All day since dawn we have been lying on a soft bed of bluebells in a wood beside a river . |
| 26 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 27 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 28 | We have been working on finishing and we got four fine goals . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But we have been working on a few things , just as we did before the first leg . |
| 30 | The th the snapshot is that we 've looked at twenty eight jobs , and out of those twenty eight jobs , if we have been working on scale fees , it would appear that we would have lost money on twenty of them . |