Example sentences of "we 've been [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ they continue , ‘ we 've been reading your columns and we 're just a little bit worried that you might mean it when you say that the European Community is a fraudulent delusion ; the German economy is kaput ; the French are morally bankrupt ; racism is becoming endemic ; America 's had it ; Britain 's in for five years of total chaos and the middle-classes will soon be taking to the streets . |
| 2 | The way we 've been getting them right ever since 1850 . |
| 3 | It 's an , a small number of , of viruses which constantly shift , and the WHO organisation which monitors flu viruses around the world , is responsible for seeing that the vaccine is made from strains that are in circulation currently , and , and we 've been getting it right for the last ten years , so I , I think there 'll be no problem this year . |
| 4 | But shall , we 've been thinking we started last week and we 're gon na be thinking over the next few weeks , er some of the people that Jesus met , some of those who confronted him who 's lives came into contact with Jesus Christ and what difference it made to them ? |
| 5 | ‘ I reckon we 've been wasting our time . ’ |
| 6 | Well I better not tell them because it will completely spoil their holiday but erm it 's h it 's interesting because we 've been mentioning it to other people I 'm sure they 've never . |
| 7 | You are now all set for that sweet treat we 've been promising you . |
| 8 | What 's what 's the aim we 've been telling them |
| 9 | Oh we 've been telling her how pretty she is with her hair cut . |
| 10 | We 've been telling our chief executives that even though you ca n't get the sales then at least try to work on your working capital , try and get your working capital er , ratio down . |
| 11 | But in promoting it to MPs we 've been drawing their attention to the kinds of organizations which in turn in their eyes just sort of represent that pyramid or structure of votes that . |
| 12 | We 've been watching them for weeks . ’ |
| 13 | We 've been hunting them since our cave days , and for nine or ten thousand years , people as far afield as China , England and Polynesia have been keeping pigs to eat . |
| 14 | Over the past few months we 've been advising you to take all the hype about the death of the 386 with a generous pinch of salt . |
| 15 | And as we 've been singing we just want those words to be true in our experience . |
| 16 | ‘ You see , ’ said Mahmoud , ‘ we 've been assuming somebody is helping him and we 've been going round all his contacts . |
| 17 | Yes , we 've been expecting you . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've been expecting you ever since Dr Watson arrived . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We 've been expecting you . |
| 20 | We 've been doing this for sometime , it does n't really seem to have taken too much effect , now at the moment we 've been channelling everything through Julian and Jonathan . |
| 21 | It seems to me that however attractive this addendum is , it 's taking us away from the real issue which is about the baptism one which the bishop er also kind of brought up er and which we 've been exercising ourselves over . |
| 22 | Also we 've been arguing our claim for the sparsity factor , in other words , the national reduction of one hundred and sixty one million in ninety-four , ninety-five compared to ninety-three , ninety-four for the sparsity factor . |
| 23 | Terry Terry we 've been keeping him waiting on the line a long time good morning Terry . |
| 24 | It 's one we normally keep in the attic but we 've been keeping it down here |
| 25 | It 's very good good erm good thing for the party and they 're usually quite starved of practical campaigning ideas and so we regularly try every at least every year to go and do a tour and erm we 've been giving them we we 're trying to rope them in on the various activities because they 're crying out for |
| 26 | We 've never in the past looked in detail at the total work content to work out these time units , after all in the past , we 've known what the client wants , we 've been giving him it for years . |
| 27 | wages cos we 've been giving ourselves under wages over the last |
| 28 | Erm throughout this you know since we 've since we 've been talking you you very clearly have given me erm picture of the people who own the quarries and own the and have the erm of the directories . |
| 29 | We 've been planning it since last year and we 've been saving every penny . |
| 30 | ‘ In Portugal we 've been restricting our developments to Lisbon and the North , ’ Vitor went on , ‘ but recently my board and I made the decision to bring the d'Arcos style to the Algarve . ’ |