Example sentences of "they [vb base] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | And they are losing their tradition of the food that they have been getting from Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They have been working in small groups to show the lives of a small rural town as yet unconnected to the railway . |