Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 2 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 3 | Erm in March the top branch was erm Hugh erm interestingly enough erm in the south erm Nicholas erm was well down on recruitment , he was down minus twenty seven on his fore on his target , but was significantly up on his bus business that he brought in because they 've been focusing on er in on that . |
| 4 | So after they 'd been using this stuff with no windows open or anything , one of the workmen began to feel a little bit groggy so he said to his mate and open the back door Charlie , will you , I 'm feeling a bit groggy . |
| 5 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
| 6 | Well they are anyway cos they 've been doing the test at eleven ! |
| 7 | No they 're not but they 've been getting on all right really . |
| 8 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 9 | The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage . |
| 10 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 11 | ‘ In some cases smoking is as addictive as heroin and it is difficult for people to give up when they have been inhaling deeply for a number of years , ’ he told a news conference at the Royal Society in London . |
| 12 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 13 | Or so he seemed to Sairellen Thackray who preferred her leaders to have the mature dignity of a Richard Oastler , whom she had followed on foot those ninety miles to York and back when they had been campaigning for the ten hour working day . |
| 14 | I says , he wo n't cos they 've been feeding him . |
| 15 | The sextuplets are seven today and they 've been celebrating with cakes , presents and party games . |
| 16 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |
| 17 | Even if they had been trying all the years between . |
| 18 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 19 | However , the children of your unmarried partner can not inherit from you unless you adopt them or make a will even if they have been living as a family with you both . |
| 20 | And they insisted that they did n't want more drink simply because they 'd been drinking but because they just , well , wanted it . |
| 21 | He had told her about the cannabis bed a few days ago when they had been walking in the garden and her eyes had widened in shock . |
| 22 | Even though they 've been squandering our money now . |
| 23 | When they landed there was no choice but to start the ten-mile journey to Achnacarry Castle on foot , so they set off , even though they had been walking all day . |
| 24 | Although the last allegation is regarded with some scepticism by royal watchers , their speculation is heightened because the royal couple have barely been seen to exchange words or glances so far in the tour , even though they have been smiling and cheerful to those they have met . |
| 25 | They have come in for quite a bit of stick , particularly when they 've been dealing with rape cases . |
| 26 | The question arises as to whether this is the result of their having fallen into apathy out of fear of repression and a belief that it is not possible to make progress ; or whether it is precisely because they have been making progress through existing channels that the militant challenge has withered . |
| 27 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |