Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But other Jews … the ones who have suffered like your zeide … for centuries they have been praying ‘ To next year in Jerusalem ’ and meaning it . |
| 2 | But I 'd be grateful for anything — even some idea of the scale of the funds they 've been filching . |
| 3 | They carried away the bin of meat fragments they had been carrying . |
| 4 | In the western provinces they have been distributing leaflets , many carrying the warning : Pros tvoeu chi , neari tvoeu pouch — ‘ We will make the men into fertiliser , and keep the women for reproduction ’ — to deter collaboration with the government . |
| 5 | read aloud to the class or teacher and talk about the books they have been reading ; |
| 6 | For months they had been trying with divets and tackle to hoist the appropriate two-ton stone upright and into its hole . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 10 | Over the past 18 months they have been arriving , hundreds at a time , crammed into cargo space and sometimes half-starved during a circuitous voyage . |
| 11 | In general these movements have operated only at grass-roots level , but in some areas they have been joining up to form networks of organisations of the urban poor . |
| 12 | For several decades they have been studying superbly preserved fossils from the rocks of the Burgess shale , found in the Canadian Rockies , which are among the earliest fossils of complicated organisms . |
| 13 | Over the past few weeks they 'd been rubbing along fairly civilly , though not without the occasional spark flying between them . |
| 14 | ‘ The man , who was known to the police , was one of the knockers they 'd been keeping an eye on . |
| 15 | This council needs to take seriously crime prevention and crime detection and most of all fear of crime , and that 's why it 's become part of the policy committee 's concern , and I think that 's with the police committee 's agreement , for years they 've been trying to tell us to get involved in crime prevention , and from next year we 're going to do that . |
| 16 | But I do n't like the way he 'd er , all this , all about er how you 'll be annually taxed under Labour because the truth is that even under the Conservatives , all the years they 've been in , and all the years they 've been reducing tax , taxes from time to time , indirect taxation increased |
| 17 | They can be sacked If it 's less than two years they 've been working , they can be sacked at a weeks notice or whatever it is . |
| 18 | Abie Klugman had long grown used to the taunt — it was Aronson 's stock joke for all of the ten years they had been lodging with Mrs Neumann , and he no longer minded it . |
| 19 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 20 | In the two years they had been operating , Stephen had taught her never to lose her temper with the guests , however unreasonable , but to try to win them over . |
| 21 | Covertly , leaning far back in his chair , he watched McQuaid from under hooded eyelids : in all the years they had been coming together on Monaghan Day McQuaid had always spent the night in the house . |
| 22 | For a number of years they have been producing the yachts in their range in both standard and Master versions , the latter being more luxuriously appointed and intended for private ownership . |
| 23 | For years they have been receiving the same information in both printout and statement form — the Bank will benefit to the tune of £10,000 in tangible savings and £71,000 in productivity savings per annum . |
| 24 | In the last 20 years they have been using invisible nylon gill nets half a mile long and more . |
| 25 | The forestry commission were once regarded as the covering the country with grand conifers but in the last twenty years they have been changing their ways , they now go half way to square yard their land . |
| 26 | For years they have been making effectively equity investments in developer traders at debt margins . |
| 27 | They have provided a wonderful opportunity to get to know dolphins in the wild , and several of the females have given birth over the years they have been frequenting Monkey Mia , thus enabling study of their maternal care and child development . |
| 28 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 29 | Like the GenSyn apes they had been experimenting upon . |
| 30 | But despite severe financial problems they have been growing in number and now produce around 40 per cent of Israel 's agricultural output and almost seven per cent of its industrial goods . |