Example sentences of "that they have [been] [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
2 | That was until the day of his funeral , when his fancy woman , Alice Mulcahy , through gin-inspired sorrow , told her that they had been making plans to go to America . |
3 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
4 | The defendants also ran a wire service and it was found by the judge that they had been obtaining information from a subscriber to the plaintiff 's service for republication by them . |
5 | What proved to be the trouble was that they had been munching handfuls of powdered soap . |