Example sentences of "they have been [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 2 | They have been taking up to 100,000 salmon and sea-trout a year and probably many more if the truth were known . |
| 3 | Borders Regional Council also believes the new fishing dimension in the funding rules , given the fishing industry at Eyemouth , will strengthen the case for access to rural development to finance which they have been working on with Scottish Borders Enterprise for several years . |
| 4 | Because of that the reactors had to undergo a licensing procedure from Nuclear , Now that survey , which they have been carrying out for a number of months now , almost certainly would require that a number of major improvements be made to those reactors , and they just have n't got the money to do that at the moment . |
| 5 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 6 | For this I gave them about 30p , which is rather a lot , & since then they have been running up to me when they see me , offering to polish up my briefcase etc . |
| 7 | They have been buggering about with things a lot though … |