Example sentences of "they be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had they been looking for ? |
| 2 | Have they been feeding you well at the hospital ? |
| 3 | How many goals have they been leaking recently … and against who ? |
| 4 | Had they been discussing any other evening he would not have been nearly so competent but the murder pinpointed the day . |
| 5 | What they might have heard however , had they been passing ten minutes later , even above the noise of the traffic and the raging of the wind , was a roar of someone in pain , a great and agonizing cry . |
| 6 | Have they been getting any ? |
| 7 | ‘ Had they been quarrelling ? ’ |
| 8 | Have they been competing with one another all their lives ? |
| 9 | How long had they been drying there now ? |
| 10 | ‘ Had they been bleeding Colonel Swanton or Lord Heptonstall dry ? ’ |
| 11 | had they been suing then that would of been met with a defence er counter claim settle and so on , erm and that would of been the answer that you ca n't enforce the claim under clause nine because it 's void , we did n't , we therefore ca n't , there 's no duty to keep the agent in funds , sue it to clause nine , it been a void clause |
| 12 | But why had they been sitting on a table ? |
| 13 | Indeed , had they been defending British farmers , particularly , those producing lamb , they would have achieved only a load of jelly — and red at that . |
| 14 | What 've they been saying ? " |
| 15 | They been coming round every day just to see you 're okey dokey |
| 16 | Some cases might be summed up as ‘ What have they been doing wrong and how can they be put right ? ’ |
| 17 | It is thus both a ‘ What have they been doing wrong and how can it be put right ? ’ and a ‘ Which way should they go now ? ’ case . |
| 18 | Those still with troublesome suspicions should have asked themselves how Pakistan 's fast men could have survived the Cornhill Test series had they been doing something illegal to the ball while on view not only to alert umpires and batting opponents but to thousands of onlookers at the various grounds and before the probing eye of television . |
| 19 | What 've they been doing to you ? |
| 20 | What have they been doing all this time ? ’ |
| 21 | What had they been doing ? |
| 22 | or not long after so why have they been doing that if there 's nothing much to do ? |
| 23 | He could have spanned her waist between his hands and , had they been standing closer , the top of her head would not have reached his shoulder . |
| 24 | ‘ What had they been working on ? ’ |
| 25 | Have they been going at you again ? ’ |
| 26 | Mr may I ask you also had been told by somebody that they been planning armed robberies together . |
| 27 | Furthermore , if the members of the harmonie rustique were moving around the stage as part of the spectacle , it seems much less likely that they would have been changing instruments picking up a flute for one number , a bassoon for another than they might have done had they been playing from a pit . |
| 28 | Have they been playing as a strike pair for the reserves ? ? |
| 29 | Had they been paying her : A £1 million a year B Pounds 200,000 a year C £350,000 for three years ? |
| 30 | They are catching up on Daedalus and he will have to go into strict training for a swifter sprint . |