Example sentences of "we 've [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the shop door closed behind her , Miss Belle , speaking breathlessly as if she had been running , said , ‘ We 've been on the look-out for you . |
| 2 | We 've been on the set since about 8 o'clock and at about ten-thirty nobody 's shot anything . |
| 3 | We 've been on the booze for five days and the boys only settled the hotel bar bill at six o'clock on Thursday morning . |
| 4 | Then the social worker got us this flat and Keith moved in with us , and he stayed until just before Christmas , and we 've been on our own ever since . |
| 5 | Er I do n't know but I would i I would reckon the crime rate since we 've been on the flats , even though the the flats are emptying out , h h has dropped er dramatically . |
| 6 | . Erm we 've had one attempted well one arson attack in the the period which we 've been on the flats . |
| 7 | But since we 've been on the flats , there 's probably been half a dozen muggings . |
| 8 | Ah it 's the acne it 's I ran out two weeks ago , so we 've been on holiday I had to get those prescription . |
| 9 | We 've been on Hold too long . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been on the road since yesterday morning and Patrick drove a thousand miles of that — mostly at a hundred and fifty m.p.h . |
| 11 | We 've , we 've got the erm , we 've got the six hundred organizations running so far about three thousand events , probably a few more if you count every single er course that some of the training schools are running but in terms of key events I 'm very confident in being able to say there are three thousand events running around the country about half of which are new and that 's the important thing so about fifteen hundred new and inaugural events that did n't go on last year or the year before Belinda the R Y A Public Relations Officer has been coordinating the public relations campaign and these days to get the young pe young people and those young people whose parents do n't sail because it 's to get at the people whose parents do sail , you 've actually got to get in the media and er we 've been on Blue Peter , we 've been on Going Live another children 's programme on a Saturday morning and |
| 12 | We 've , we 've got the erm , we 've got the six hundred organizations running so far about three thousand events , probably a few more if you count every single er course that some of the training schools are running but in terms of key events I 'm very confident in being able to say there are three thousand events running around the country about half of which are new and that 's the important thing so about fifteen hundred new and inaugural events that did n't go on last year or the year before Belinda the R Y A Public Relations Officer has been coordinating the public relations campaign and these days to get the young pe young people and those young people whose parents do n't sail because it 's to get at the people whose parents do sail , you 've actually got to get in the media and er we 've been on Blue Peter , we 've been on Going Live another children 's programme on a Saturday morning and |
| 13 | You 've never had those before , not even when we 've been on tour . ’ |
| 14 | All this week we 've been on expedition with the British team as they tackle the Camel Trophy through Brazil and Guyana . |
| 15 | Well they have n't done it , that with us , we 've been on the thirty days and just no |
| 16 | Well we 've never been this place before , but we 've been on a similar do . |
| 17 | we had our alarm ooh after five , William called us just in case we laid late , so we was on the move ten , ten past five , so I mean we 've been on the go perhaps two hours more than anybody else and eh , and then cos when , it was just like that , but it was down here now I thought to went to that down on his and a little |
| 18 | It fenced up security-wise and everything else so we 've been on it overtime and and painting and decorating and getting the |
| 19 | Well if we 've been on a drive like you are |
| 20 | The problem at the moment is , we 've been on Word Processor up to now , but the designer is designing a programme at the moment , so I do n't have a programme to show you because it 's with the designer , erm all we 've got is the diary , that we 're kind of like again on the word processor , that we 're producing tonight . |
| 21 | ‘ But we 've been with Terry and Tom who are held by Jihad Islami , yes ? ’ |
| 22 | er tab four and five , tab four and five , we 've been with tab four |
| 23 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 24 | well at night when we 've come back from wherever we 've been with Wendy , it was a ritual to walk round , cos on the , on the |
| 25 | Yes Chairer er I think Vince 's report is a very fair summary of the er the the issues which face us erm truth is , is what we 've been as in this proposed consortium which no doubt will go through with it 's most of the reforms of the N H S despite the er consultation mechanism which they 've gone through you know , but largely these are beforehand given the unaccountable of the N H S management ! |
| 26 | From the mid-'50s , where we 've been for quite some time , we 're suddenly into the '60s , 1961 in fact , and a finger-picked instrumental written by Chet Atkins , entitled Trambone . |
| 27 | That 's where we 've been for the last twenty years so erm this company er that was already doing it and we bought it into the er into the fold . |
| 28 | Well we 've been , I mean we were at Jenny 's for a while , I went to the bank and eh , then we 've been into Bromley all afternoon . |
| 29 | ‘ No , Charlie , of course you can ‘ t , we 've been through that . |
| 30 | We 've been through his tax arrangements . |