Example sentences of "we 've be [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
| 2 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 3 | I mean you 've had Sue , Sue for example tied up on and all those sort of issues , Bob 's been dealing with pr pension conversions and stuff like that for , for months on end , so we 've been dealing with other projects , all that 's happened is the work has been redirected onto a different type of project . |
| 4 | We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them . |
| 5 | By investing some time and trouble in learning to capture and interpret your own dreams , you may well gain insight into those aspects of your life that we 've been discussing throughout this chapter — some of your needs as living , loving , sexual being , surviving , as we all must , in complex relationships with other people . |
| 6 | Anyway erm we 've been hearing on this programme recently of course that er people are against hunting against fishing er they say it 's cruel . |
| 7 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 8 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 9 | In this chapter we 've been looking at two novels which , though they both contain their own particular stylistic innovations , nevertheless stick to the recognised , traditional shape of the novel . |
| 10 | Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well . |
| 11 | We 've been writing to each other for eight years but had never met until this year . |
| 12 | are napkins that we 've been buying in antique fairs . |
| 13 | We have found the leaks , and we have connected all , we have reconnected all of the er supplies , including a supply to the cathedral field , which has never been billed in the past er because of erm damage to their meter , it 's only used twenty seven gallons but twenty seven litres , but whilst I 've been here , it 's a water meadow from the result of the water that we 've been supplying to that particular field . |
| 14 | ‘ Luckily , I won £60,000 in 1991 and we 've been digging into that . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series . |
| 16 | No Sally 's new at the job , we 've been working at this for for on on the technical front for some time , now let's just sit down and and work out what we 're gon na do . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | I mean , we 've been working towards all this for years , you know ? |
| 20 | Well let's think for just a moment , you know , we 've been talking over these last three or four weeks about faith and that , erm , let's just think , perhaps and we should have done this sooner , but I du n no , it it fits in th this morning , er perhaps just what , what faith is . |
| 21 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 22 | I think we 've been talking about two different interpretations of the word , respect . |
| 23 | I think perhaps the council will now see why I 'm getting so frustrated and it 's because we 've been talking about this for over twelve months . |
| 24 | I I the retail 's not within what we 've been talking about this afternoon but on the other hand it does employ more people per hectare than any industry we 've been talking about as as far as as far as I understand it . |
| 25 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We 've been practising on this wicket . |
| 29 | And we 've been saying to Chief Executives , if you ca n't get the profit or you ca n't get the sales , well at least concentrate on trying to , trying to get the cash , get the debtors in , that kind of thing . |
| 30 | But we 've been asking during this programme will the real John Major please stand up . |