Example sentences of "they have be [v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been sharing a cell for the last two years . |
| 2 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 3 | I know they 've been pulling a lot out |
| 4 | Yeah erm she put , she said Gateway 's th they 've been selling a lot and there is none in Lynn . |
| 5 | ‘ We lease the land out to the forestry people , and they 've been doing a helicopter survey . ’ |
| 6 | In Arequipa I had watched women in the church of Santo Domingo giggle happily as they dressed the Virgin for a procession ; , behaving much as if they had been preparing a girl for a wedding , not a poor girl though , rather one Velasquez might be called upon to paint . |
| 7 | They had been crossing a scree ; there had been many loose stones , and footing was difficult , but surely at that point they had been traversing a gentler slope , and her employer had actually been standing on a flattish stretch of granite when she had fallen . |
| 8 | Protected from prosecution by an amnesty law of 1978 , the military opposed any such investigation but their claim that they had been fighting a war against left-wing subversion became increasingly untenable with the discovery of mass graves containing the bodies of their political opponents and the disclosure of how they had indulged in corrupt financial practices while in power , including the payment of US$3,000,000 to Pinochet 's son [ see pp. 37528-29 ; 37852-53 ; 37958 ] . |
| 9 | They had been delaying a statement of the Secretariat for Unity on religious liberty , which , at this stage , was intended to form part of the schema on ecumenism . |
| 10 | Right up until the coup in nineteen twenty seven they had been following a policy dictated by Moscow , dictated by Stalin which told them form alliances with the Kuomintang , work with the Kuomintang , first of all trust Chiang Kai-shek , then when Chiang Kai-shek turned on them they were told to trust the left Kuomintang leaders who were based in Wo Han in the middle Yangtze valleys , and then they turned on them a policy , in other words , that had proved absolutely disastrous . |
| 11 | Though debt levels could be dramatically reduced through the sale of Pilkington 's Solaglass wing , for which they have been seeking a buyer . |
| 12 | They have been spending a lot of money on training , but what they 're doing now is localizing it , so training for Oxfordshire , which is different from training for somewhere like Liverpool , it 's got a lot more unemployed , it 's now not in the hands of the old training agency or manpower service commission , and we are looking at it completely afresh . |
| 13 | Yes , they have been doing a number of things in the past , I think the Y T S or new youth training as it is now , was a good thing , it had a lot of criticism . |
| 14 | They have been having a moan and a groan recently . |
| 15 | The last time I heard from her she was planning to marry her live-in partner — they have been running a wholefood shop and café ! |