Example sentences of "we 've be [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been moving at night . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
| 3 | Towards which we 've been striving for weeks . |
| 4 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 5 | ‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices . |
| 6 | said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat |
| 7 | All this week we 've been looking at life inside Grendon Prison in Buckinghamshire . |
| 8 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 9 | We 've been looking at horticulture on a grand scale . |
| 10 | since you done it we 've been looking in jewellers ' shops when I go , I go up town twice a week with her , you know , carry all the bags , and er we 're looking in the jewellers ' shop and some old , some lady stood there and , she were looking I says , come on they do n't wear marriage ri , wedding rings there ! |
| 11 | Driving for cash er well an indication of how strongly we , we 've been driving for cash is that er the reduction i in er operating cash flow is less than the reduction in profit . |
| 12 | It 's the cheese we 've been having at work this week |
| 13 | Er , we 've been working in Harlow for a couple of years now and as you may know , we as Paul said , finished the first phase of Three Hills which is the Ayletts Field scheme which provided sixty six properties for a low cost home ownership and two special needs properties and we 'll also be starting in the next couple of months er , on providing low cost home ownership in Church Langley erm it 's funded by yo , yourselves . |
| 14 | Violence may be the erm scenes that we 've been witnessing of terrorism lately , or it may simply be a boxing match , or a rugby match , or something like that . |
| 15 | Tt er and i in a sense there 's kind of been an upward trend in terms of progression through that , that reform but within that there have obviously been a number of and in a sense what we 've been coming to terms with is , is what has been causing those , those variations , those changes in that policy . |
| 16 | We 've been talking to cinemas in London and will bring it over there soon . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been talking to Jane Pargeter . ’ |
| 18 | We 've been talking to Michael Medleycote from the British Tourist Authority , and one of the points I was making to him was with the recession and also the Gulf war people are very concerned , a ) there 's the cost of flying , but also they 're concerned of course about security . |
| 19 | We 've been talking for hours . |
| 20 | It 's remarkable because we 've been talking about Twickenham to you ever since I think about the second round , and in those days it just seemed a little bit of a dream , but that dream is now just eighty minutes away is n't it ? |
| 21 | It 's pretty big too because we 've been talking about women . |
| 22 | Yeah I 'm , I 'm interested that that so many of you go from love to marriage as er swiftly as the horse and carriage similarly would suggest , I mean it , every one 's experience of love is , is different , every body here is , we 've been talking about love between er men and women , but there 's also love between women and women which we have n't talked about at all . |
| 23 | I was just gon na say , we 've been talking about equality a lot tonight |
| 24 | we 've been talking about individuals and what they want , and we live in a context in which if people want a thing and the , and we feel that they should have the choice particularly if they have the money that if to , if you look at it in a wider context there are seven million children living on the streets in Brazil ! |
| 25 | So I got Peggy up from Somerset , on the same farm you see , and that was much better , and erm we 've been cycling to Stroud , to the pictures you know , 8 miles there and 8 miles back , and erm but the awful job he gave me to do for a few days was along , there was a young lad there and he was going to drive the old heavy fords and tractor and I was going to walk behind , and he 'd got converted horse drags I suppose they call them |
| 26 | 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 ? ’ |
| 27 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 28 | But I mean , one of the things that we 've got on with at the moment is that we 've been saying for ages , you 've got to get your you 've got to get us involved at design stage . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've been preparing for war for ages . |
| 30 | This includes the profit from the SAVE FACE party reported over page , monies raised by various club activities , and the profit from the merchandise we 've been selling by mail order these past three months . |