Example sentences of "they have [been] [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of bed numbers it has substantially more relative to population than either London or New York , but like them has been closing short stay beds steadily since the mid-1970s . |
| 2 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 3 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 4 | They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it . |
| 5 | In the last 20 years they have been using invisible nylon gill nets half a mile long and more . |
| 6 | Some of them have been getting strong criticism lately . |