Example sentences of "we have be [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well but as Father 's Day approached , Joe made it clear that I could n't hope to be any more than just second best |
| 2 | ‘ And I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well together . ’ |
| 3 | He he had us all lined up after we 'd been riding round and he started enquiring how long we 'd been out of hospital . |
| 4 | well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it . |
| 5 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 6 | And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd been going out together on dates for a month or so , ’ she began haltingly , too emotionally drained to refuse him the information he wanted . |
| 8 | We 'd been turning on and off roads all along , dodging checkpoints I guessed . |
| 9 | Shout , they 'd shout something but er well since we 've been living up here , my mother used to give , the man used to come for the order for the grocery , the baker used to come round , the milk used to come round , they all used to come round at she 'd ha she did n't have go out for heavy loads of stuff to bring in it was all delivered , but when they started some new technique of er of ordering by computer , it 's going to come back to square one again you know , they 'll be delivering stuff in the same jolly old way hey . |
| 10 | To help ourselves we have not ignored the nostalgia trend , however , for we 've been glancing back at nineteen eighty two to guess what we think will be the most significant arts ideas for nineteen eighty three . |
| 11 | We 've been picking up some bad vibes on that guy . |
| 12 | We 've been thinking over past weeks of the little account that we have in the old testament of the life of Ruth . |
| 13 | We 've been prowling around all day on a level with earthworms and rusty , broken down appliances , pressing our ears against the hot wooden trapdoor to the cellar and hearing the silence of ghosts . |
| 14 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 15 | I ca n't of course foretell er what 's gon na happen in Eastern Europe , but looking externally er at the lower interest rates and the er more competitive value of the pound and internally at the improved cash flow and the actions that we 've been taking over for the past couple of years and I can say that there 's now generally a more optimistic feeling in the air amongst our group companies . |
| 16 | I 'm going to leave you with four grooves that include some of the triplet applications we 've been taking about . |
| 17 | Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis |
| 18 | I just wan na see if it 's been erased since we 've been digging around . |
| 19 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've been sitting around twiddling our thumbs for some of the time and people have been sloping off early , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Yeah , Miss , we 've been sitting up here , yeah , Miss , it 's ten to ! |
| 22 | ‘ Well , we 've been working on digitally remastering them all . |
| 23 | It 's something we 've been working on ever since they both left Liverpool , ’ joked a smiling Kendall afterwards . |
| 24 | Erm the housing need figure we 've been working on for Greater York has been nine thousand seven hundred and that 's been based on the parishes within the Greater York study area . |
| 25 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 26 | whatever we 've been working on then , yeah . |
| 27 | And I think that to a large extent erm an alternative wording that that we 've been working on would erm meet those concerns . |
| 28 | And then at the end we will run a single lecture , a kind of gee whizz lecture , something that shows the applications of the ideas we 've been working on during the day to some particularly unusual branch of physics . |
| 29 | Other fields that we 've been working on particularly are the educational field and the content and scale of education , it 's link with the unemployment problem and it would take too long really to list the whole range . |
| 30 | ‘ We 've been working out the date for the party , ’ Frau Nordern said , producing an enormous desk diary . |