Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | er but gradually they 've been building the workforce back up again , |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see . |
| 18 | So far they had been doing nothing more than ‘ just walking the dog , Guv ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And increasingly they have been clustering into the outer South East . |
| 21 | Up until today they have been winning praise for the quality of their football but everything seemed to go wrong this afternoon . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Maybe they 'd been meeting in secret for a while . |
| 24 | " Maybe they have been drinking tizwin , " he said . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Yes that , I think that 's possibly true , er , I was talking to Cambridge there about oh fifteen , twenty minutes ago and they said it was raining with them , and then they 'd been talking over to somebody over in Coventry and it 's , it 's snowing there |
| 28 | Since then they have been effecting a gradual programme of repair , restoration and alteration . |
| 29 | For this I gave them about 30p , which is rather a lot , & since then they have been running up to me when they see me , offering to polish up my briefcase etc . |
| 30 | At least they 've been shouting out . |