Example sentences of "they have been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
| 2 | They might just possibly have been able to find the morning 's path if they 'd been starting again from the road , but tracking backwards was incredibly difficult . |
| 3 | He had a feeling that they 'd been waiting right from the start of the trip . |
| 4 | They 've been hunting here for 150 years . |
| 5 | And and they 've been waiting since for it to happen . |
| 6 | ‘ They 've been waiting there for ages , ’ said Gurder . |
| 7 | They 've been doing so since bathing machines first appeared on Long Island in about 1794 . |
| 8 | " But , hell , they 've been navigating safely to Aru for centuries . " |
| 9 | They feel comfortable in bed together — they 've been sleeping together for years after all , and the new-found passion is lovely and exciting . |
| 10 | They 've been coming here for over 60 years and even a recession wo n't spoil the festive spirit . |
| 11 | They 've been sitting there for over a week |
| 12 | Friends say they had been looking forward to the holiday for months . |
| 13 | They had been moving steadily through a very thick part of the forest in which it was impossible to maintain a constant direction for more than a few paces . |
| 14 | The authorities claimed that they had been living illegally on land which had been allocated to others , in Khartoum suburbs such as Karmuta where large numbers of mud-brick houses had reportedly now been vacated and then destroyed by bulldozers . |
| 15 | They had been living together across the colour bar for the best part of 30 years . |
| 16 | Now there is nothing to prevent plural continuation here ( e.g. They had been working hard for hours ) , but the incidence of such continuations was less than 5% , and continuations mostly were confined to singular references with individuals being in relatively stereotypical roles with respect to each other . |
| 17 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |
| 18 | One afternoon , after they had been travelling together for several days , Cleo ordered Dauntless to pull Contralto to a halt . |
| 19 | But they had been saying so for years , for more than a decade now . |
| 20 | Covertly , leaning far back in his chair , he watched McQuaid from under hooded eyelids : in all the years they had been coming together on Monaghan Day McQuaid had always spent the night in the house . |
| 21 | They had been driving northwards from Copenhagen for half an hour along the beach road when Rune posed the question . |
| 22 | They had been sitting together at the top of their organisations throughout the years of cut-backs . |
| 23 | Staff from Aberdeen were among 63 representatives of 35 libraries who attended a series of VISCOUNT demonstrations organised by the Library 's Lending Services during November and December , and were so impressed by what they saw that they decided to join the system , which they have been using successfully since January . |
| 24 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 25 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 26 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 27 | ( a ) Spouses living together There is no charge to capital gains tax on a transfer of assets between husband and wife provided that they have been living together in the year of assessment in which the transfer takes place ( Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 ) ( " TCGA 1992 " ) , s58 . |
| 28 | ‘ In some cases smoking is as addictive as heroin and it is difficult for people to give up when they have been inhaling deeply for a number of years , ’ he told a news conference at the Royal Society in London . |
| 29 | They have been contributing generously to the upkeep of the 800 mosques in Britain ; all they ask in return is a say over the appointment of the imam . |
| 30 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |