Example sentences of "[noun] they have been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In the last 20 years they have been using invisible nylon gill nets half a mile long and more . |
2 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
3 | ‘ All Friday night they 'd been showing Sheedy free kicks on the box . |
4 | They are the seeds produced by the fern-like plants such as Mariopteris , but because they are difficult to link with their foliage they have been given separate names . |
5 | Like Gaiety Girls they had been judged worthy of a separate identity . |
6 | When the cheeses came from the farm they had been taken fresh from the moulds . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | And quite apart from the general interest they 've been fetching high prices . |