Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] they [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 2 | Mr Fallon fired back : ‘ Education in this country is run by the councils and largely they have been running it very badly . |
| 3 | Q. I have two six-inch Temporales , which I bought as a pair when they were three inches long , and lately they have been showing signs of breeding , such as locking their jaws and tail slapping . |
| 4 | And increasingly they have been clustering into the outer South East . |
| 5 | Up until today they have been winning praise for the quality of their football but everything seemed to go wrong this afternoon . |
| 6 | Well , they were perching on the erm chimneys of that one and then they 've been coming they 're gon na be swooping round up not actually low but above it , about fly to the bathroom then spread up , turning a circle , coming down and going past my window and land |
| 7 | Yes that , I think that 's possibly true , er , I was talking to Cambridge there about oh fifteen , twenty minutes ago and they said it was raining with them , and then they 'd been talking over to somebody over in Coventry and it 's , it 's snowing there |
| 8 | And yet they 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources , both finance and , and manpower resources and expertise to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 9 | er but gradually they 've been building the workforce back up again , |