Example sentences of "we have be [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 3 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd been walking all day , brushing through great webs of giant spiders , and at one stage I looked back at Adrian Arbin , who I was with , and it was like a horror film — his face was running with blood , blood running into his eyes , down his neck , staining his shirt . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 6 | We are ready , we 've been eating raw meat and some of us can still move which is a major bonus to us |
| 7 | I was lucky to have my family 's support , and soon after , I met a really nice man at work ; we 've been seeing each other ever since . |
| 8 | We 've been seeing each other for two years now and , although we have n't set a date , we are planning to get married . ’ |
| 9 | They can do erm damage to a section of the network erm that does not bring about major destruction and with this accurate bombing that we 've been seeing this kind of operation is possible . |
| 10 | We 've been combing this mountainside all week . ’ |
| 11 | Right , we 've been postponing this discussion , I know , erm because we 've not sort of felt er we 've not fitted it into previous meetings . |
| 12 | Although you see erm as we 've been suggesting any project requires that . |
| 13 | We 've been gardening this morning . |
| 14 | He praised the performance of 18-year-old Grant Watts , scorer of Palace 's first goal in a shock 2-1 win , and said : ‘ It was a night to enjoy after all the trouble we 've been having this season . |
| 15 | So please make those contacts , so that you can erm , make arrangements to discuss , obviously things of mutual concern , promptly please , to your seminars , when we will continue some of the discussions we 've been having this morning , and thank you all very much indeed . |
| 16 | Yes we did , we were talking about our General Election strategy and er we 've been planning some campaigning and training workshops and so on , and I can tell you that we 've selected a Green Party candidate for Oxford west for the General Election ; his name is Mike Woodin , and the process is going on to select someone for Oxford east , so there 's certainly going to be a strong Green presence in Oxford during the General Election . |
| 17 | Up to now we 've been covering one part of the neural networks . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've been making great progress . ’ |
| 19 | I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards . |
| 20 | Er well it 's not a new thing , we 've be we 've been making ceramic ball bearings for a while |
| 21 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
| 22 | We 've been doing French art as well , so anyway it 's an afternoon out that 's what I |
| 23 | One of the things we 've been doing this year is to actually have a club once a week , a sort of club night , when teachers can come it — this is particularly primary teachers — and use our machinery , look at our programs , go through our library and meet each other , so that the people who have got some expertise can then go back to the school and sort of spread their information and their enthusiasm in their schools . |
| 24 | ‘ Some of the stuff is very '70s sounding , but then again , as we 've been doing this thing for such a long time , I guess it 's kinda cool that all that is back in vogue . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've been investigating this drug ring for some months . |
| 26 | I mean , obviously we 've been playing this game for hours . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've been fighting each other like spoilt kids instead of fighting the real enemy , our international competitors . |
| 28 | The 135 hp engine was used to operating on 80 octane fuel but we had been using 130 octane avgas . |
| 29 | Exactly where we had been swimming that morning . |
| 30 | Mr Cattell said : ‘ We had been expecting bad news but had no idea where the axe would fall . |