Example sentences of "we have be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been planning to completely redecorate our home from top to bottom , and at first I just could n't face doing it alone . |
| 2 | They knew we 'd been talking to their pop idols and they just wanted to touch us . |
| 3 | We 'd been moaning to Malcolm about wanting to play some gigs . |
| 4 | As you 're aware , we 've been trying to or organize this sort of open forum , engineering in the house in September |
| 5 | We 've been trying to . |
| 6 | This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up . |
| 7 | We 've been writing to each other for eight years but had never met until this year . |
| 8 | We have found the leaks , and we have connected all , we have reconnected all of the er supplies , including a supply to the cathedral field , which has never been billed in the past er because of erm damage to their meter , it 's only used twenty seven gallons but twenty seven litres , but whilst I 've been here , it 's a water meadow from the result of the water that we 've been supplying to that particular field . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mr Harrison said : ‘ Following the closure of the Swan Hunter yard the Government has finally agreed to talk to the EC about getting the same subsidies for all British shipyards that we 've been giving to our competitors in the EC for years . |
| 11 | We 've been talking to cinemas in London and will bring it over there soon . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We 've been talking to Jane Pargeter . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | And we 've been saying to Chief Executives , if you ca n't get the profit or you ca n't get the sales , well at least concentrate on trying to , trying to get the cash , get the debtors in , that kind of thing . |
| 16 | A crucial assumption of the kinds of statistical calculations we have been referring to is that the sample has been randomly drawn from some population . |
| 17 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |
| 18 | We have been talking to the horse , stroking it , and trying to reassure it . |
| 19 | In the years we have been going to the Arctic ( at least one summer and one winter trip now for as long as I can remember ) , we have acquired odd niggles . |
| 20 | Speaking after BSAD 's national junior swimming championships , Mr O'Connor said : ‘ We have been coming to Darlington for eight years now and I can honestly say it gets better every time . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ Following the closure of Swan Hunter 's , the government has finally agreed to talk to the EC about getting the same subsidies for all British shipyards that we have been giving to our competitors in the EC for years . |
| 22 | We have been travelling to China every three or four years since 1971 . |