Example sentences of "we 've been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’
2 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 .
3 We 've been ploughing all over the grass !
4 We 've been thinking over past weeks of the little account that we have in the old testament of the life of Ruth .
5 A spokesman said : ’ We 've been acting unilaterally in cutting prices , with no support whatsoever from the record companies . ’
6 not freehold land freehold buildings we 've been depreciating now for many many years .
7 No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner .
8 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 .
9 Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis
10 We 've been flying here since September , but our wives have regularly sent out Country Living to keep us in touch .
11 Yes , the hindquarter double-muscled trait is important and is the breed 's main attribute , but we 've been looking too for stock with good overall conformation , with loin and fleshing that we feel is vital to any successful terminal sire breed .
12 Incidentally , it does n't include the disposal of Smithmark We 've also er we 've also gone in for other cost reduction exercises , for instance at er Dalton with a review of warehousing and distribution er , we should save about a million pounds in a full year and we 've been ramming home to our chief executives the need for annual payroll reviews to be geared to the profitability of the company rather than t rather than to the rate of inflation er , or even , er in , even the market place .
13 They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 ‘ Hours of watching Ruddock on video revealed that he had a tendency to drop his left hand low , so he was wide open to my right and we 've been working hard on a left-right combination , ’ he explained .
18 What we 've been embarking on in the er the URC church in Shodden is er budgeting the title of my talk today is budgeting for growth .
19 And this recession that we 've been coming out of for so many years now it 's I mean it 's just turned into a bit of a joke !
20 to other things , we 've kind of veered of the , one of the subjects that we were er , we did get onto which was how the police and the courts er handle er well victims and indeed criminals , I wonder if I might conflate erm both those groups into one question , its a very broad question , but I wonder if you think by and large the police do a good job , erm button one for yes and button two for no , erm and the majority here say yes , seventy seventy people say yes the , the police do a good job and since we 've talked about the courts do you think the courts do a good job by and large ? , we 've been talking specifically about erm some of the more bizarre erm statements that have come from the bench , particularly in with reference to crimes erm , that have treated against women , well now , seventy nine say no , so the police comes thumbs up , but the courts are way down , now not surprisingly there are n't many representatives from the courts er amongst this hundred
21 We 've been humping away for a whole two and a half pages .
22 We 've been rehearsing steadily for the tour and live we are very confrontational .
23 We 've been going on like that for six to eight weeks now .
24 We 've been going on like this for months .
25 Mm , I mean we 've been going out in the daytime , when the weather 's
26 We 've been going together for ages .
27 Now of what we 've been doing today with fractions was there any of it that you 're not quite sure of and you think , But could you just tell me about that bit again .
28 JB : It seemed natural that two painters working in the same vicinity with the same painting outlooks should share a studio which we 've been doing now for , how long ?
29 We 've been cultivating both for centuries .
30 ‘ It 's simply that while we 've been playing well in possession , we have n't been doing the job when the opposition have had the ball .
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