Example sentences of "they have [adv] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George and Marie are very disappointed , especially as they have both been working around the clock since the expansion , managing the Brasserie and L'Auberge respectively , interviewing and training new staff ( labour turnover has been high at the Brasserie from the start and is now significantly higher at L'Auberge too ) and filling in whenever necessary at either establishment . |
| 2 | He 's gon na find it hard as well I think , but on the other hand they have n't been communicating at all , you know , it 's not like |
| 3 | For a long time now , they have n't been looking at each other . |
| 4 | " I know they have n't been coming to class regularly . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Taylor has completed ignored the fact that Catholics have been under the jackboot of the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and it is ridiculous to say that they have not been living in fear . ’ |
| 6 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 7 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 8 | Although they have apparently been happening for much longer , abductions first started coming to light in the late Sixties , but they 've really taken over UFO culture since the publication of Communion in 1987 . |