Example sentences of "they [vb base] [be] [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 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Oxford ca n't grumble they 've been winning for 15 years … its Cambridge 's turn but Oxford will be back on top next year |
| 6 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 7 | ‘ Not on a degree course but at the Cultural Centre for Foreigners where they 've been going since last September . ’ |
| 8 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 9 | They 've been going through all the lorries that 've come into Dover today with some sort of connection with the Balkans . |
| 10 | They 've been sitting during this meditation on her short useless history as a Socialist , they 've been sitting in the dark and now the moon rises , full and amber against a bar of cloud and Harriet 's face is bowed ; a drink at one hand ; and a cigarette droops glowing from the other . |
| 11 | Is actually to terrify the p poor and to drive them in into a s an under and this is part of their philosophy that they 've been following since nineteen seventy nine under Mrs Thatcher . |
| 12 | So I think that what if they care were listening to nominal words about retaining trees and hedges , because trees and hedges have a very clear habit of falling down by accident , |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And they are losing their tradition of the food that they have been getting from Eastern Europe . |
| 15 | One indication of that was that at the request of the British , both sides agreed to stop the radio propaganda campaigns they have been waging against each other . |
| 16 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 17 | They have been waiting for these choice morsels — dessert . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They have been working in small groups to show the lives of a small rural town as yet unconnected to the railway . |
| 20 | A buy-in of shares may be the appropriate method of effecting a management buy-out where certain shareholders wish to realise their investment in a business which they have been running for some time , or they wish to retire , and there is a management team willing to continue with the business and become the new shareholders . |