Example sentences of "we [vb base] been [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been looking for someone who can cope with the 24-hours-a-day rock ‘ n ’ roll lifestyle . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 3 | " We 've been looking for you , " said Hazel . |
| 4 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 5 | We 've been looking for you everywhere for the past hour ! |
| 6 | ‘ We 've been looking for you these five days , and never a sign . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've been looking into your background and there 's a few things there I do n't think you 'd like to come out . ’ |
| 8 | Our own experience from several of the projects that we 've been looking at which are in-service type projects , is that when we do train teachers and when we do put an investment in it , we see the pay-off in the schools that physical science does get done in schools , it is fun and it is exciting . |
| 9 | Our own experience from several of the projects that we 've been looking at which are in-service type projects , is that when we do train teachers and when we do put an investment in it , we see the pay-off in the schools that physical science does get done in schools , it is fun and it is exciting . |
| 10 | This week we 've been looking at what VAT on fuel and books would mean . |
| 11 | Well so much for the sea surface temperatures of the past , but we 've been looking at our records of the compounds in the sediments even more carefully and what we 've seen in there are molecular fingerprints which do not match those of the marine organisms . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mr Harrison said : ‘ Following the closure of the Swan Hunter yard the Government has finally agreed to talk to the EC about getting the same subsidies for all British shipyards that we 've been giving to our competitors in the EC for years . |
| 14 | We 've been talking about somebody having affairs . |
| 15 | We 've been talking about them as facilitators and the need for compatibility , I think there 's also a need for every system to have a back-up of some kind , either of power or maybe a manual back-up , which in fact we were talking about the other evening . |
| 16 | Well I suppose i it means that you know the difference between right and wrong cos we 've only been We 've been talking about it further up have n't we ? |
| 17 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 18 | You know what I think er , th we 've been talking about it round about and I says , you know , they were wondering if it was a bit suspic , I said no , th , they worry to death , there 's our children who speaking like the nig-nogs ! |
| 19 | Well we 've been planning for it for something like eleven months , with a small planning team , but at its height , just before Conference , there were a total of seventy officers involved . |
| 20 | So I just want to run through very , very quickly some of the things which will sound very familiar , because a lot of the , a lot of the information is very similar to the information we 've been putting before you in terms of the radio and television situations . |
| 21 | We 've been gossiping like anything . |
| 22 | But on the other hand I 'm pleased the reasons they 've given for the delay are the points we 've been raising with them over the last two years . |
| 23 | We 've been waiting for you . |
| 24 | come on then we 've been waiting for you to come , come on |
| 25 | ‘ We 've been playing for our survival for a year and a half now so we are used to it , ’ he said . |
| 26 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 27 | And the team will cry out for joy as well , because we were created for this community , and in a way we have been looking for it all our lives . |
| 28 | ‘ My dear Rose , we have been hearing of your protégé . |
| 29 | We have been living beyond our means for too long and had better start tightening our belts . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |