Example sentences of "[verb] they [verb] been [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In a fairy story one of them would ride up to the avenue here on a white horse and say they 'd been wanting you as part of their lives for years , ’ Benny said . |
| 2 | I know they 've been writing them . |
| 3 | But officials deny they 've been keeping their proposals under wraps . |
| 4 | ‘ I think they 've been watching me to see what I eat . |
| 5 | ‘ She said they 'd been helping her to write songs , and sure enough I tried one of them — low string down to D , and top string right down to C — and I got three new songs straight away : Galileo , Virginia Woolf and a ballad that did n't make it onto the record . |
| 6 | Till the knock on the door — two investigators said they 'd been watching my house and he was living with me . |