Example sentences of "they have been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been sitting still for too long . |
| 2 | Peter Bateman of Rentokil says there 's a reason for their bad behaviour — they 've been getting drunk on rotten fruit . |
| 3 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 4 | They 've been planning this for months . |
| 5 | They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so . |
| 6 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 7 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 8 | I know they 've been doing that for ages . |
| 9 | But they 've they 've been doing that since er last century . |
| 10 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 11 | They have been doing this in Suffolk for almost 110 years , comforting the sick and lonely , and relieving the worries of the anxious and elderly . |
| 12 | But they have been saying that for 20 years . |
| 13 | I 've filmed the training sessions where they have been practising collapsing on purpose to cancel out our traditional strength in this department . |
| 14 | It is only when you stop scanning the horizon for monumental shapes that you realise they have been looming unnoticed in the foreground all along . |