Example sentences of "they [verb] been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been marching with full-time soldiers in Horseguards Parade . |
| 2 | Right they 've er they 've been preaching against Spanish slates . |
| 3 | His face had an unpleasant shine to it , the kind of shine you get on the walls of places where they 've been cooking in cheap fat since for ever . |
| 4 | They had been queueing since early morning in front of the larger shops and the department stores in Sauchiehall Street , Renfield Street and Argyle Street to buy blackout cloth . |
| 5 | A frisson of disbelief and unease passed though the male patrons as the woman they had been watching in simulated copulation on the screen materialised in the flesh before their very eyes . |
| 6 | A judge told William Sim and David Todd that they had been playing for high stakes and had to pay the penalty . |
| 7 | They had been waiting for high water so that they could sail alongside in a civilised manner . |
| 8 | They had been talking in low voices . |
| 9 | They had been paddling in tension-filled silence for some time when he spoke . |
| 10 | Presumably , after carrying out their assignments , they had been returning at irregular intervals and were now preparing their reports for the final session of the afternoon . |
| 11 | During the past decade the poverty stricken countries of the South have been paying far more money to the rich North than they have been receiving in new money . |
| 12 | And they are losing their tradition of the food that they have been getting from Eastern Europe . |
| 13 | There they have been working with individual patients who , for one reason or another , spend most of their lives sitting down — some of them in wheelchairs , unable to walk at all . |
| 14 | They have been working in small groups to show the lives of a small rural town as yet unconnected to the railway . |