Example sentences of "we have been [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we see we 've been saving the stamps so we had believe it or not |
| 2 | And er he did n't blame me one bit of doing that because we 'd been getting the run around . |
| 3 | Then me , yeah me and Zed were saying like because , and like we 'd been tripping the night before and everything |
| 4 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'd been doing the video for eight hours straight , everything was getting loose and they say , we wan na do a hand-held sequence , just go for it , run around the room and do whatever you want . |
| 6 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 7 | But , one of things that we are discovering is that when people complain about drafts er , we 've been switching the air conditioning up and down to balance it up to suit the individuals needs . |
| 8 | In addition to the note I gave you about the AO Development course , we 've been discussing the range of courses available , and we 've come up with the following ‘ wants list ’ . |
| 9 | We 've been discussing the release of the three British hostages . |
| 10 | Many times in this council when we 've been discussing more important points , when we 've been discussing the needs of people who have real needs , we have not been able to have our priority we have not been able to have our priority because we could not afford it . |
| 11 | We 've been telling the Rugby Union for years that we want help ; what they 're doing now is like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted . ’ |
| 12 | Cos we 've been watching the repeat of Victoria Wood ! |
| 13 | We can work using the x-form faster than we can the sequence form simply because we 've been using the former for years . |
| 14 | We 've been using the words SOH CAH TOA to help remember these . |
| 15 | and then it 's not disturbing her although we 've been using the bottom bedroom really . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been bombarding the place since dawn . ’ |
| 17 | cos , cos if they are I mean a lot of people are more for , er the thing of Simon er , er although we 've , we 've been expecting the er the withdraw of the work demands |
| 18 | Jack said to Franca , ‘ We 've been having the most extraordinary time ! |
| 19 | We 've been running the management skills courses since nineteen eighty-six , and since then , more than seven hundred and fifty people , from groups such as yours , have taken a part , and we 're about to launch a phase two in the next er , year or so . |
| 20 | Every day for the last month we 've been totting the Vortec back and forth to the local office , where it has been used to run an Alpha Four Database . |
| 21 | We 've been saying the same thing for the last three years and I 've got the minutes here to prove it . |
| 22 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 23 | The Dept of Health says ’ we are aware of the problem and we 've been pressing the medical profession to do something about it for some time . |
| 24 | We 've been playing the records he bought . |
| 25 | We had been conducting the German youths on tours of our favourite places in the city — to the bullring , the restaurants , the bars , the River Tormes , the Casa de Santa Teresa , the Antiguo Colegio Mayor de Iriandeses , San Martin ( where we were nearly locked in for the night ) and to the conventual church of San Esteban . |
| 26 | We had been reading the poems of a Greek poet in French translation together . |
| 27 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |
| 28 | Up by where we had been tipping the spoil was an area of hard-standing for a car , and some benevolent genius ( probably our builder friend ) had laid down sheets of open-weave chipboard over the soil , so the wheels would n't sink in . |
| 29 | While we have been patrolling the chef has been woken , and breakfast awaits our return . |
| 30 | Dear doctor , we have noticed that as a result of a press article , copy enclosed , that there 's been concern stressed by a number of general practitioners with regards the slowness of the social services controlled community care programme as an association on behalf of our residential and nursing home members we have been stating the same fact to social services who have basically denied the existence of any problem , although we hope that in the long term the social services will be able refine their system to be more efficient , as an interim measure we are offering you a direct line service . |