Example sentences of "they [verb] [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | boy , boy friends before , they married them , they were n't sleep , if they 'd been sleeping around then I would of said something , then I would of said something to them , |
| 2 | Over the past few weeks they 'd been rubbing along fairly civilly , though not without the occasional spark flying between them . |
| 3 | Yeah well th cos they 've been waiting up there on the thing and they 've land or they 've just been circ |
| 4 | They have no speech beyond grunts , but they 've been surviving out here . ’ |
| 5 | They 've been fighting out there for bloody years . ’ |
| 6 | Constant hum , people started from the first day and they 've been flowing through ever since with a high point at the weekend when they 've had more time to come up to London to have a look at things look at things . |
| 7 | Do you know me and Ted have been married thirty year no not thirty , they 've been going out together thirty years |
| 8 | They had been coming over steadily ever since , in spite of warnings about the difficulties of living in a foreign land — warnings given them by the English Jewish establishment . |
| 9 | He was sure there had been more when he first arrived ; they had been scuttling about all over the place , carrying implements , standing on stools stirring steaming mixtures , chopping things and throwing bits and pieces into cauldrons . |