Example sentences of "they [verb] been [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence . |
| 2 | They 'd been strolling through the individual gardens within the whole for more than two hours , while Rune told her about the traditions of the gardens and how , despite attempts at imitation , they remained unique in Europe — if not the world — before they reached the area set aside for the funfair and he suggested she might like a ride on some of the attractions . |
| 3 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 4 | It was the Russians they 'd been listening to the whole lot . |
| 5 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 6 | We probably lost them on the Beltway , and they 'd been chasing round the Virginia countryside trying to pick me up … those things only have a range of about three miles . ’ |
| 7 | Lone travellers , they 'd been talking at the bar , and Lily had said how much she enjoyed dancing . |
| 8 | They 've been digging for the chemicals , been tortured and crucified , again and again . |
| 9 | It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks . |
| 10 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |
| 11 | They 've been protesting against the council 's decision to stop the car park there from being women only . |
| 12 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 13 | But beware — the Black Night 's ghoulish cohorts are everywhere , and rumour has it that they 've been dabbling in the dark arts … |
| 14 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 15 | And for the last 3 days , they 've been living on the food they 'd planned to give to the children . |
| 16 | Yeah , they 've been advertising in the Echo |
| 17 | They 've been focusing on the relationship between staff and students and so why did you focus on what appears to be the short end of the stick , rather than the major problem ? |
| 18 | For the past 4 days , they 've been working around the clock and through the night . |
| 19 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 20 | They 've been sitting during this meditation on her short useless history as a Socialist , they 've been sitting in the dark and now the moon rises , full and amber against a bar of cloud and Harriet 's face is bowed ; a drink at one hand ; and a cigarette droops glowing from the other . |
| 21 | The two teams arrived in the northern capital from Beijing where they had been competing in the Asian Games . |
| 22 | Erm and so therefore er they , they knew tools that they had been using since the period of the war , erm were gradually being overtaken by the new types of ceramic tools . |
| 23 | The American people told him at the polls what they had been screaming from the rooftops for two years . |
| 24 | With Dara once more clinging firmly and rather painfully to her arm she was walked back to the small , intimate table they had been sharing on the edge of the small dance-floor , but Ace was quickly on to his feet , side-stepping Dara 's attempt to greet him with a kiss . |
| 25 | Furthermore , a settlement arrangement was made whereby the creditor countries could exchange on a monthly basis their accumulations of the weaker currencies ( which they had been buying in the EC exchange markets ) for some other form of reserve asset . |
| 26 | They had been drinking for the best part of an hour but none were drunk . |
| 27 | They had been drinking in the local dockyard club in the company of Maddison and his fiancee , Deborah Scott , 29 , and all four had left together . |
| 28 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 29 | All three were still dressed in what they had been wearing in the camp : corduroy trousers , khaki shirts and pullovers and big nailed boots . |
| 30 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |