Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [v-ing] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 2 | Cheapies are fine — I have been using them for years ! |
| 3 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 4 | The problem I have is putting them into forms and last was a was a specific example because we ended up with our seven G N , and I took the i , the information from each of the primary schools and put them into form classes . |
| 5 | Now governments and cities are starting to listen to economists , who have been telling them for years that the use of road space should not be a free gift to motorists . |
| 6 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 7 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 8 | You have been casting them from that very first night when the gods sent you to haunt me ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , yes , we have been hunting them for years . |
| 10 | Things like this should n't really surprise people because we have been telling them about what has been going on Down Under for years . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We have been plunging them into boiling water for years and it is ridiculous to say we are being cruel . |
| 12 | We have been paying them in England since 21 February and virtually a third of claims have been met . |