Example sentences of "we 've been at " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Yes , and the reason we 've got no morals is that for a long time ( 150 years ) we 've been at a loose end . '
2 " We 've been at it — He looked at the watch on his sinewy wrist with its furring of black hair " — like nine hours .
3 We 've been at it since six . ’
4 And it 's er er we go to Ffestiniog power station to have a drink and then come to er er well we 've been at Royal Hotel at Betsy-Coed these last years or two .
5 So I bought her some fruit pastilles again just while we were waiting for the train , but funnily enough , the last few times we 've been at the station , Bobby
6 That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war .
7 I mean that 's what I mean about this hundred days , we 've been at war , and I think the job of the press , I mean is not
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