Example sentences of "we 've be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We 've been acting on a |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | We 've been averaging over a quarter of a million customers a week and an indicative of this is that recently in the last week , we 've just opened an additional three thousand car parking spaces to take our grand total up to twelve thousand spaces . |
| 34 | The Holy Spirit out of all that we 've been speaking about and listening to you can give us the end of the sentence . |
| 35 | I wake up at night and I think of maybe some kid we 've been dealing with . |
| 36 | Erm what we 've been dealing with on Vienna is dealt with in section forty six reaction and revolution in Europe . |
| 37 | The commitments data that we 've been dealing with to date , for the Greater York area , that was supplied by the County Council , was that data that applied to the what we 're now calling the the the the greenbelt area , or was it the area of search as well ? |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | ‘ I reckon we 've been wasting our time . ’ |
| 40 | not freehold land freehold buildings we 've been depreciating now for many many years . |
| 41 | Well I better not tell them because it will completely spoil their holiday but erm it 's h it 's interesting because we 've been mentioning it to other people I 'm sure they 've never . |
| 42 | We 've been mentioning this good housekeeping |
| 43 | Every day this week we 've been printing stickers of the Grands Prix that Mansell won . |
| 44 | Every day this week we 've been printing colour pictures of the team captains and their strip for you to paste on to your chart . |
| 45 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 46 | You are now all set for that sweet treat we 've been promising you . |
| 47 | But , one of things that we are discovering is that when people complain about drafts er , we 've been switching the air conditioning up and down to balance it up to suit the individuals needs . |
| 48 | It 's like a dream in which we 've been trying to get through to people and we 've represented this by seeing ourselves locked inside our homes , desperately trying to get out . |
| 49 | Now the enemy 's all deflated and dead , I feel like all my friends and all the artists were like little pygmies and we 've been trying to kill this elephant all these years with little arrows , and finally tonight … |
| 50 | But all the years we 've been trying . |
| 51 | ‘ We 've been trying to wake him for half an hour , ’ said Fritz . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | well we 've been trying to think how we could get the best out of Colin for the past four bloody years . |
| 54 | So if I may , I would like to negotiate to one or the other if if you will agree er to that , to try and get us a dance group , we 've been trying to get a dance group for years |
| 55 | They 're some of the things that you can think out and er work out you know , that 's , that 's what we 've been trying to do . |
| 56 | I do know that we 've been trying to get er recognition for about fifteen years with that company but can we pursue that issue ? |
| 57 | As you 're aware , we 've been trying to or organize this sort of open forum , engineering in the house in September |
| 58 | You ca n't , take your point which we 've been trying to tackle at national account level |
| 59 | Do you realize we 've been trying to get ready for twenty minutes ? |
| 60 | We 've been trying to . |