Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well at the end of the day I mean I I was n't there but a the facts at the end of the day were that they 'd been buggering about with that radio system which they should n't do . |
| 2 | He had a feeling that they 'd been waiting right from the start of the trip . |
| 3 | The authorities claimed that they had been living illegally on land which had been allocated to others , in Khartoum suburbs such as Karmuta where large numbers of mud-brick houses had reportedly now been vacated and then destroyed by bulldozers . |
| 4 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |
| 5 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 6 | They might just possibly have been able to find the morning 's path if they 'd been starting again from the road , but tracking backwards was incredibly difficult . |
| 7 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 8 | boy , boy friends before , they married them , they were n't sleep , if they 'd been sleeping around then I would of said something , then I would of said something to them , |
| 9 | If they had been working logically , they would have built the new on to the old stopping here . |
| 10 | She had seen so many of the students set out from her door , awkward and anxious , and after a few weeks it was as if they had been studying there all their lives . |
| 11 | But they had been saying so for years , for more than a decade now . |
| 12 | One afternoon , after they had been travelling together for several days , Cleo ordered Dauntless to pull Contralto to a halt . |
| 13 | And when they had been hiding out in Tom Rooney 's house , they had still fallen into the roles of master and maid , and on board ship Patrick 's attitude , influenced by Tom 's warning , had been stand-offish . |
| 14 | He should never have let her talk him into letting her give hers first when they had been deciding how to handle this whole situation . |
| 15 | Love also revealed that it had been decided not to include Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , as they had been playing overseas and it was a better option to give the others some match practice . |