Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that [pron] 've been " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We got that little bit of luck that we 've been missing .
2 ‘ I 'm afraid everything 's not as I would like it to be here — you know , of course that we 've been without a Marshal for two months now — not that I ca n't cope after twenty years service in this village , but even so — ’
3 Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in
4 They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years .
5 ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while .
6 So System Ten is the culmination of several years of work that we 've been doing with other hardware and software vendors but most importantly with our customers .
7 So what are the areas of work that you 've been involved in ?
8 You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today .
9 And erm she had she works for a erm videos set up conferences you know the sort of things that you 've been on .
10 Just give you one example if I may erm which erm will serve to underline the sort of points that I 've been making erm to you .
11 Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier .
12 And with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier , erm and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as erm simply a logical construction for talking about the way people talk in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity , existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier .
13 ‘ We 've all come a long way , Carrie , and we 're going to go a lot farther … but come inside , I think Christian 's found that bottle of brandy that I 've been hoping he 'd forgotten . ’
14 Okay has anybody ever assumed things with people that they 've been training ?
15 And this is one of many ways in which ordinary communication between people depends on our having a very powerful memory , having the ability to look out for situations that we 've been warned about , and to take action in accordance with instructions that we 've been given previously and have stored up .
16 And this is one of many ways in which ordinary communication between people depends on our having a very powerful memory , having the ability to look out for situations that we 've been warned about , and to take action in accordance with instructions that we 've been given previously and have stored up .
17 Puts them on notice that you 've been to see a solicitor .
18 And the next time you buy something from a shop and find there 's something wrong with it do n't just jump to conclusions that you 've been deliberately cheated .
19 Have you ever felt so angry about men that you 've been moved to write a song about it ?
20 On one level there 's this analogy , this pattern about history that we 've been talking about but er is Freud 's attempt to explain Jewish er culture in terms of a , of a general pattern of history , of course there are many other examples and Mike has suggested a brilliant one here .
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