Example sentences of "we have been [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so maybe we could we 've been using sodium a lot try calcium because it 's interesting cos it 's got a double one a double positive negative is it ? |
| 2 | We 'd been providing cover for the convoy , when a vehicle went over a land mine . |
| 3 | We 'd been drinking vin blanc and supping pork pies and and when we sat on the boat , sailor says , You 'll not there long , you know , we sat on the bow er on the from of the boat . |
| 4 | And the lessons learned were , how to manage projects better than we 'd been managing projects before . |
| 5 | God in heaven , you 'd think we 'd been eating leftovers . |
| 6 | We were half expecting someone to arrive to investigate the deaths anyway , and we 'd been keeping Fedorov under observation for some time . |
| 7 | It was only when I did n't , and we 'd been making love without contraceptives for months and months , that I decided he must have been right . ’ |
| 8 | well you know we 've been reading stories , little ones , that was only two I could find but there were n't any stories |
| 9 | We 've been lending money to individuals for over 50 years so we 're certainly experienced in keeping our customers satisfied . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been moving patients to other hospitals . |
| 11 | Every day this week we 've been printing stickers of the Grands Prix that Mansell won . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | . We 've been discussing guests coming to stay at your place over Christmas . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've been taking statements all day , and have discovered certain — anomalies in yours which need sorting out . |
| 15 | So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been controlling games and still letting goals in , ’ he conceded . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We 've concentrated on market share , we 've been exercising cost reductions and we 've been continuing with investment . |
| 20 | As he 's schools minister , we 've been scanning Mr Michael Fallon 's press releases for spelling mistakes so far to no avail . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ The heavy rain after the dry weather we 've been having makes the roads more slippery , and drivers should slow down accordingly . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You may think we 've been putting pressure on you , but — ’ |
| 28 | ROS : Oh no — we 've been spinning coins for as long as I remember . |
| 29 | ‘ And you ca n't blame him for the way we 've been conceding goals . |
| 30 | That same floor we 've been crossing reaches right to here , one great caldarium , with that hypocaust deployed underneath it all the way . |