Example sentences of "we have been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We realised we 'd been depending too much on verbal instructions so we concentrated on producing written safety procedures , including training and planning . |
| 2 | I 've seen we 'd been firing just observa observation beams they were sixty pounder guns . |
| 3 | I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well but as Father 's Day approached , Joe made it clear that I could n't hope to be any more than just second best |
| 4 | ‘ And I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well together . ’ |
| 5 | When Phil and I , the first time we 'd been skiing together , so that was last , not last year |
| 6 | He he had us all lined up after we 'd been riding round and he started enquiring how long we 'd been out of hospital . |
| 7 | Since that , we 'd been touring constantly and written about twenty-five songs . |
| 8 | well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd been beavering away on Imaginary for a while but we never got the success we deserved through limited resources . |
| 10 | We 'd been drifting apart until then , and that talk brought us right back together . |
| 11 | ‘ Once I knew about the other woman , I realised we 'd been drifting apart and that , at weekends , I 'd felt quite distant . |
| 12 | We 'd been saying how awful it was , how sorry we were for Connie . |
| 13 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 14 | And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry . |
| 15 | ‘ We 'd been going out together on dates for a month or so , ’ she began haltingly , too emotionally drained to refuse him the information he wanted . |
| 16 | He said that the rain we 'd been having here had fallen as snow on the top of the pass . |
| 17 | We 'd been turning on and off roads all along , dodging checkpoints I guessed . |
| 18 | ‘ What would she say if she knew what we 'd been doing tonight ? ’ |
| 19 | Shout , they 'd shout something but er well since we 've been living up here , my mother used to give , the man used to come for the order for the grocery , the baker used to come round , the milk used to come round , they all used to come round at she 'd ha she did n't have go out for heavy loads of stuff to bring in it was all delivered , but when they started some new technique of er of ordering by computer , it 's going to come back to square one again you know , they 'll be delivering stuff in the same jolly old way hey . |
| 20 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 21 | To help ourselves we have not ignored the nostalgia trend , however , for we 've been glancing back at nineteen eighty two to guess what we think will be the most significant arts ideas for nineteen eighty three . |
| 22 | We 've been picking up some bad vibes on that guy . |
| 23 | We 've been ploughing all over the grass ! |
| 24 | ’ At the weekends we 've been getting so busy that we hav n't been able to fly all the members . |
| 25 | We 've been thinking over past weeks of the little account that we have in the old testament of the life of Ruth . |
| 26 | A spokesman said : ’ We 've been acting unilaterally in cutting prices , with no support whatsoever from the record companies . ’ |
| 27 | We 've been prowling around all day on a level with earthworms and rusty , broken down appliances , pressing our ears against the hot wooden trapdoor to the cellar and hearing the silence of ghosts . |
| 28 | We 've been averaging over a quarter of a million customers a week and an indicative of this is that recently in the last week , we 've just opened an additional three thousand car parking spaces to take our grand total up to twelve thousand spaces . |
| 29 | not freehold land freehold buildings we 've been depreciating now for many many years . |
| 30 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |