Example sentences of "[adv] we 've [be] " in BNC.

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1 When I think how long we 've been friends …
2 ‘ Within the context of how long we 've been together .
3 And for too long we 've been misled into believing that manufacturing and industry had become unimportant .
4 erm , how long we 've been here sitting tenants er
5 I mean , obviously we 've been playing this game for hours .
6 Well probably because er you know we try and keep up er er certain standard every year and er you know it 's very important doing a video that you have the right songs for it , you know to get a story book set up for each song and this one we felt when we had it finished was probably you know the best we 've done so far and lucky enough we 've been proved right .
7 So we 've been systematically checking out all the other bars in the city . ’
8 So we 've been through quite a lot of those and it 's it , the case does n't really stack up .
9 So we 've been left with no other avenue but to go to law .
10 You know , we 'll so we 've been quite a few times since , but I can not think of the name of it .
11 So we 've been perhaps a little
12 It fenced up security-wise and everything else so we 've been on it overtime and and painting and decorating and getting the
13 So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it !
14 So we 've been starting on the , but this is a bit of a shame though because , what I like , when we , when we , when we have our three days off , it 's nice to know on your , on your last day off that still have a late night because your not back to work until the afternoon you know .
15 So we 've been down there a few times but I said to you did n't I ?
16 So we 've been doing that with children as well .
17 Somehow we 've been transported to another world . ’
18 And just finally , on Friday we are in to the we 've been invited into a bags competition , you know , that 's after the bags actually means bookmakers afternoon greyhound services , and we race that every Friday as you know erm anyway we 've been invited to erm a national championship involving the other bags tracks that erm involved in this erm and so we stage our two heats on Friday .
19 I 've fought this problem for years at political conferences and gradually we 've been able to improve the situation .
20 I 've managed to subject the boots to most conditions except a thorough soaking over several days — for once we 've been basking in sunshine for weeks in Scotland , along with the sun-drenched south east !
21 ONCE more we 've been overwhelmed by demo tapes from local bands so this week , Off the Record 's Steve Hack and Andrew Hartley turn up the office music system and review the latest in local sounds .
22 Yes I mean in a sense that just sort of shows that a lot of people would agree with Lakehoff in the sense that they think that women use a lot of tag questions and have that speech style , erm I mean like we 've been able to see , and what we can say is that men and women 's language is different er and it 's even possible to say in what way it 's different , but the difficulty becomes when we actually want to say why those differences are .
23 So you 're okay with that , ten take away A minus , ten take away A add B will be ten take away A and then take away B. But if we do ten take away like we 've been doing here , A minus B and it comes out the same as this , it 'll be ten take away plus A , just take away A , and then take away minus B. Well taking away a minus B is the same as adding B. Erm do you remember the table ?
24 Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt .
25 He made it sound like we 've been our for a , you know , a romantic candle lit dinner and , you know , and we 'd just been down to his study for God 's sake !
26 Thankfully we 've been spared the agony of SRV 's favourite .013 to .058 strings ; the reissue comes with a much more manageable .010 to .046 set , and it 's been set up with an action considerably lower than the man 's own and at the 12th fret .
27 the , the way we , the way I look it see , the way we 've been cut and slashed , and I 'm not just talking about high schools and first schools or anything right we 've been destroyed , we 've been literally thumped into the deck .
28 Also we 've been arguing our claim for the sparsity factor , in other words , the national reduction of one hundred and sixty one million in ninety-four , ninety-five compared to ninety-three , ninety-four for the sparsity factor .
29 So far we 've been concentrating on Meryl 's reasons for hanging round on the gallery in the middle of the night ; all well and good , but what was Gladys doing there ? ’
30 So far we 've been very successful .
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