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

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1 We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan .
2 ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’
3 In other words , we 've been funding from within our own budget new developments that 'll come on stream next year and it 's a very complicated budget and it contains some quite erm controversial erm subjects , which no doubt we 'll go through in a minute , but overall erm , given the total financial situation , I 'm a relieved man today .
4 Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking .
5 No she 's going somewhere we went to Donny other day all money we 've been getting like , when I first , she , when I first , before we got that giro for me
6 We 've been moving at night .
7 We 've been acting on a
8 The Holy Spirit out of all that we 've been speaking about and listening to you can give us the end of the sentence .
9 I wake up at night and I think of maybe some kid we 've been dealing with .
10 Erm what we 've been dealing with on Vienna is dealt with in section forty six reaction and revolution in Europe .
11 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 ?
12 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 .
13 As you 're aware , we 've been trying to or organize this sort of open forum , engineering in the house in September
14 We 've been trying to .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 By investing some time and trouble in learning to capture and interpret your own dreams , you may well gain insight into those aspects of your life that we 've been discussing throughout this chapter — some of your needs as living , loving , sexual being , surviving , as we all must , in complex relationships with other people .
18 Anyway erm we 've been hearing on this programme recently of course that er people are against hunting against fishing er they say it 's cruel .
19 Nicola , you suffered some of the side effects that we 've been hearing about tonight , and then things got really bad .
20 And has he seen any particular kinds of treatment of the Kuwaiti people that we 've been hearing about ?
21 We 've been taking at least one call a day for more than a year . ’
22 Since we 've been thinking these past few weeks about what Christians believe , the first text would be in the er skeleton outline that we 've been taking in the Apostles ' creed , which says I believe in the Holy Ghost .
23 We 've been struggling for years .
24 We 're particularly aggrieved because we suffered very badly from the storm in 1987 and we 've been struggling in the past few years of drought to replant , ’ said Mr Myers .
25 What we 're actually doing in terms of the product is we 're actually widening the franchise erm I do n't like to use words going up market that suggests that we 're leaving our core customers behind , we will we will add any product that is complimentary to our core kitchens but er we 'll still be the main stance of the product in these two stores for instance , we 're going to introduce a house wear department it is something that we 've been experimenting with before we 're going to erm use the opportunity to widen the franchise on appliances we 're going to erm use the an experiment on erm floorings to match work tops , those kind of developments just to test to see whether the customer reaction is as good as we hoped it would be so that we can then introduce it in the main chain
26 Towards which we 've been striving for weeks .
27 The things they are being tested for are all those we 've been training for up until this time .
28 And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline .
29 We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin .
30 We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation .
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