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Example sentences of "[adv] they have been [v-ing] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	What I 'd like you to do , is to try and put into words , what the main problems are at the moment , when they occur , where they occur , and how long they 've been going on for ’ .
2	Well it 's how long they 've been going , I suppose .
3	Ruth had no idea how long they had been driving when Sean turned the horses off the road on to a narrow side track .
4	Perhaps they had been discussing me .
5	I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying .
6	Perhaps they have been finding our simulated version of you know , to be there early , and to be there late , and sometimes be there Saturday and Sunday as well .
7	Mm , well obviously they 've been casting bonds and tell judgment
8	So they 've been working on modifications and this year , oh we will we 'll put the modifications right and then come back with another sales pitch
9	So they 'd been playing cat and mouse game and er it has n't paid off you know .
10	So they 'd been talking about it already .
11	In fact ever since the pair of them started going out together they 've been going on about having to find poor old Jenny a new man .
12	Mr Fallon fired back : ‘ Education in this country is run by the councils and largely they have been running it very badly .
13	Bicker was there , looking as tired as if he and not they had been riding and fighting in the past three days .
14	Q. I have two six-inch Temporales , which I bought as a pair when they were three inches long , and lately they have been showing signs of breeding , such as locking their jaws and tail slapping .
15	er but gradually they 've been building the workforce back up again ,
16	Well me Auntie Jean and me Mum got passed once , like they 'd been going down and scrubbing it from side at bath and everything .
17	N nowadays I hear erm or the lads who have been they go out They 've been working with contractor and they say how different it is when your mother was alive , everybody who came here they they used to join us for their dinner .
18	Now there is nothing to prevent plural continuation here ( e.g. They had been working hard for hours ) , but the incidence of such continuations was less than 5% , and continuations mostly were confined to singular references with individuals being in relatively stereotypical roles with respect to each other .
19	Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see .
20	So far they had been doing nothing more than ‘ just walking the dog , Guv ’ .
21	Latterly they had been feeding him by dropping his fodder from a loft above the stall , and lowering down pails of water on a string .
22	And increasingly they have been clustering into the outer South East .
23	Up until today they have been winning praise for the quality of their football but everything seemed to go wrong this afternoon .
24	So far today they have been studying how orders for an operation are given and the particular way in which the Army goes about explaining a complex undertaking .
25	I do n't they 've been doing anything to me yet okay .
26	And can I just comment on one point by Mr , he said about they 've been using the local government erm housing Act .
27	Maybe they 'd been meeting in secret for a while .
28	" Maybe they have been drinking tizwin , " he said .
29	Well , they were perching on the erm chimneys of that one and then they 've been coming they 're gon na be swooping round up not actually low but above it , about fly to the bathroom then spread up , turning a circle , coming down and going past my window and land
30	Then they had been sinking on to the bed and , between kisses and caresses , peeling the clothes hungrily from one another , until at last they lay naked , side by side .