Example sentences of "we have be working on " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . ’ |
3 | We 've been working on the Panch Chule expedition for a year , but it 's just the odd day basically . |
4 | We 've been working on the project for quite some time . |
5 | ‘ 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ We 've been working on the show since Christmas and hope the audiences enjoy it as much as we do , ’ said Vivien . |
8 | We had been working on ideas of time and speed . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | We have been working on finishing and we got four fine goals . ’ |
11 | ‘ But we have been working on a few things , just as we did before the first leg . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
14 | Recently we have been working on other corpora , including a 26-million word corpus , much larger than the LOB Corpus , but more restricted , in that it consists of newspaper reports . |