Example sentences of "they [verb] be [verb] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 'd been commissioned both of them . |
| 2 | They 've been planning this for months . |
| 3 | They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so . |
| 4 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 5 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 6 | I know they 've been doing that for ages . |
| 7 | But they 've they 've been doing that since er last century . |
| 8 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But they have been saying that for 20 years . |
| 11 | But BBC officials are waking up to the fact that , while they have been allocated both of Britain 's channels for high-power satellite broadcasts , the kind that could be received direct into people 's homes , they have no monopoly on low-power transmissions from satellites , the kind that could be picked up by central receiving stations — and transmitted via cable to homes . |