Example sentences of "they [verb] be [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So after they 'd been using this stuff with no windows open or anything , one of the workmen began to feel a little bit groggy so he said to his mate and open the back door Charlie , will you , I 'm feeling a bit groggy . |
| 2 | Analysis of samples collected from puddles on Hyde Heath by Friends of the Earth found high levels of ammonia , nitrogen and chloride , pollution which they claim is damaging boggy areas and endangering resident species . |
| 3 | Whaling communities in the Faroe Islands have approached Greenpeace for help over growing marine pollution , which they claim is making locally-killed pilot whales inedible . |
| 4 | Yeah it 's more difficult to keep up with others if they if they 're older and they 've been learning this stuff for a lot longer |
| 5 | They 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources and expertise , to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 6 | And yet they 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources , both finance and , and manpower resources and expertise to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 7 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 8 | ‘ They 've been trying all sorts of stuff , ’ said Angalo . |
| 9 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 11 | And quite apart from the general interest they 've been fetching high prices . |
| 12 | That 's why the windows of the houses are so small — so that they do n't have to see where they 've been working all day long . |
| 13 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 14 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
| 15 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 16 | Hence my association with Flip , because they 've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years . |
| 17 | They 've been racing each other for years and have developed a friendly rivalry . |
| 18 | People have paid deposits of $500 … they 've been paying weekly payments of $125 so it could be quite considerable but it could run to thousands of pounds |
| 19 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |
| 20 | It would have been much better if they had been getting some therapy to help them understand why they needed to take drugs in the first place . |
| 21 | Lead miners in the northern Pennines were earning 10s ( 50p ) a week by 1797 and 11s 6d ( 57½p ) by 1815 , whereas before the war they had been earning 7s 6d ( 37½p ) ; a money-wage increase of around 50 per cent over the war years seems indicated , implying a real-wage fall of about 10 per cent . |
| 22 | However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age . |
| 23 | They told him it was a welcome to Petrograd by the revolutionary workers and sailors : they had been roaring one word " Lenin " . |
| 24 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 25 | When they landed there was no choice but to start the ten-mile journey to Achnacarry Castle on foot , so they set off , even though they had been walking all day . |
| 26 | ‘ You see , ’ he went on as though they had been talking all afternoon , ‘ I had no idea until this morning that you were in the same state as I. ’ |
| 27 | We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area . |
| 28 | " They had been heaping dried brackens and whins , with peats here and there among the pelf , in a line along the trench ; and one struck a light with his flint and fired the pile . |
| 29 | They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it . |
| 30 | DETECTIVES investigating an alleged attack on two prisoners found unconscious in their cell were yesterday working on the theory they had been fighting each other . |