Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lead miners in the northern Pennines were earning 10s ( 50p ) a week by 1797 and 11s 6d ( 57½p ) by 1815 , whereas before the war they had been earning 7s 6d ( 37½p ) ; a money-wage increase of around 50 per cent over the war years seems indicated , implying a real-wage fall of about 10 per cent . |
| 2 | In the last 20 years they have been using invisible nylon gill nets half a mile long and more . |
| 3 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 4 | ‘ All Friday night they 'd been showing Sheedy free kicks on the box . |
| 5 | DETECTIVES investigating an alleged attack on two prisoners found unconscious in their cell were yesterday working on the theory they had been fighting each other . |
| 6 | By Claire 's watch they have been waiting eleven minutes . |
| 7 | Erm and people had been paying insurance i it changed then cos some of the farmers could go on their pension they 'd been paying this new scheme you see . |
| 8 | They sat on hard upright chairs in a draughty passage , and all the excitement they had been feeling drained out of them , seeping through the soles of their shoes and vanishing into the linoleum . |
| 9 | So what they 've done is they 've picked a way of doing but they kept chopping and changing the way they 've been doing that all the time . |
| 10 | What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know . |
| 11 | And quite apart from the general interest they 've been fetching high prices . |