Example sentences of "they have [be] [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 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 4 | Yes that , I think that 's possibly true , er , I was talking to Cambridge there about oh fifteen , twenty minutes ago and they said it was raining with them , and then they 'd been talking over to somebody over in Coventry and it 's , it 's snowing there |
| 5 | Yeah well at the end of the day I mean I I was n't there but a the facts at the end of the day were that they 'd been buggering about with that radio system which they should n't do . |
| 6 | He had a feeling that they 'd been waiting right from the start of the trip . |
| 7 | Er , although they 've been moving around with me , but er they did very well in their studies in the end . |
| 8 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 9 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 10 | Remember the the boat 's been filling with water , they 've been bailing out in desperation , after they 'd done everything that they can do they then turn round and said , Lord , do n't you care we 're gon na drown ? |
| 11 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 12 | They 've been hunting here for 150 years . |
| 13 | They 've been knocking around since Christmas . |
| 14 | Mind you the best ones would be by er those ones they 've been selling off to the highest offer . |
| 15 | The sales force is a problem they 've been working on for awhile and could be in a position to snap off in a few months . |
| 16 | And and they 've been waiting since for it to happen . |
| 17 | ‘ They 've been waiting there for ages , ’ said Gurder . |
| 18 | They 've been doing so since bathing machines first appeared on Long Island in about 1794 . |
| 19 | " But , hell , they 've been navigating safely to Aru for centuries . " |
| 20 | They feel comfortable in bed together — they 've been sleeping together for years after all , and the new-found passion is lovely and exciting . |
| 21 | What I 'd like you to do , is to try and put into words , what the main problems are at the moment , when they occur , where they occur , and how long they 've been going on for ’ . |
| 22 | In fact ever since the pair of them started going out together they 've been going on about having to find poor old Jenny a new man . |
| 23 | They 've been going out on and off for years . ’ |
| 24 | They 've been coming here for over 60 years and even a recession wo n't spoil the festive spirit . |
| 25 | Some of these things as well , they 've been pinching back from upstairs , toys they , they 've played with when they were smaller and they do n't play with them now and I put them upstairs out of the way and they keep going and finding them and bringing them down . |
| 26 | They 've been sitting there for over a week |
| 27 | Friends say they had been looking forward to the holiday for months . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Then they had been sinking on to the bed and , between kisses and caresses , peeling the clothes hungrily from one another , until at last they lay naked , side by side . |
| 30 | And when they had been hiding out in Tom Rooney 's house , they had still fallen into the roles of master and maid , and on board ship Patrick 's attitude , influenced by Tom 's warning , had been stand-offish . |