Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 2 | But then Complicite , in the seven years I have been watching them , have never lost their power to astonish . |
| 3 | Cheapies are fine — I have been using them for years ! |
| 4 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 5 | As the newer varieties of catfish have appeared in my local aquatic outlet , I have been purchasing them . |
| 6 | The items I have found on such sites have proved to be of great interest , and I have been logging them down very carefully . |
| 7 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 8 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 9 | You have been casting them from that very first night when the gods sent you to haunt me ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , yes , we have been hunting them for years . |
| 11 | Things like this should n't really surprise people because we have been telling them about what has been going on Down Under for years . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We have been plunging them into boiling water for years and it is ridiculous to say we are being cruel . |
| 13 | We have been paying them in England since 21 February and virtually a third of claims have been met . |
| 14 | The Government are supposed to support small firms , but is not the reality that they have been betraying them ? |