Example sentences of "[noun pl] they have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For months they had been trying with divets and tackle to hoist the appropriate two-ton stone upright and into its hole . |
| 2 | Abie Klugman had long grown used to the taunt — it was Aronson 's stock joke for all of the ten years they had been lodging with Mrs Neumann , and he no longer minded it . |
| 3 | Like the GenSyn apes they had been experimenting upon . |
| 4 | But despite severe financial problems they have been growing in number and now produce around 40 per cent of Israel 's agricultural output and almost seven per cent of its industrial goods . |
| 5 | I 'm a teacher myself and if my children come home and tell me things they 've been doing in maths which might seem very perplexing to somebody who knows about modern maths , I understand the educational reason for them doing so . |
| 6 | A lot of people started handing in pellet guns and antique muzzle-loaders they 've been keeping for years without a licence . |
| 7 | It was the Russians they 'd been listening to the whole lot . |
| 8 | They first told police they had been hunting for foxes . |
| 9 | It 's tempting , but probably inadvisable , to accept their statements — often pat slogans they 've been repeating for years — at face value . |
| 10 | The broad effect of the Act was to enable societies to offer the extended range of services they had been lobbying for . |
| 11 | One indication of that was that at the request of the British , both sides agreed to stop the radio propaganda campaigns they have been waging against each other . |
| 12 | He had been sending in listings , even reports , on the gigs they had been running in Birmingham . |