Example sentences of "they have [be] [v-ing] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His face had an unpleasant shine to it , the kind of shine you get on the walls of places where they 've been cooking in cheap fat since for ever . |
| 2 | A frisson of disbelief and unease passed though the male patrons as the woman they had been watching in simulated copulation on the screen materialised in the flesh before their very eyes . |
| 3 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 4 | They had been talking in low voices . |
| 5 | They had been paddling in tension-filled silence for some time when he spoke . |
| 6 | During the past decade the poverty stricken countries of the South have been paying far more money to the rich North than they have been receiving in new money . |
| 7 | They have been working in small groups to show the lives of a small rural town as yet unconnected to the railway . |