Example sentences of "that they have been [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reading it , the British discovered that they had been speaking the imperial equivalent of prose all their lives . |
| 2 | He returned late that afternoon , eager with the good news that they had been awarded the Rouen-Dieppe contract . |
| 3 | We 'd called at a house to install some concrete steps in the rear garden , and learnt that they had been burgled the previous night . |
| 4 | Mr Ben Ali had indicated some softening of his position towards the fundamentalists in an interview with visiting Arab journalists on Monday , saying that they had been offered the chance to open their own newspaper . |
| 5 | He says that they have been using the shaft for dumping substances . |