Example sentences of "they have [be] drinking " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they insisted that they did n't want more drink simply because they 'd been drinking but because they just , well , wanted it . |
| 2 | They had been drinking Cisco , a fruity , wine-based fluid that smells and tastes like a mixture of cough syrup and bathtub gin . |
| 3 | They had been drinking , but they did n't seem to want to fight anybody . |
| 4 | They had been drinking for the best part of an hour but none were drunk . |
| 5 | They had been drinking chica and swayed as they stood up . |
| 6 | They had been drinking in the local dockyard club in the company of Maddison and his fiancee , Deborah Scott , 29 , and all four had left together . |
| 7 | She had filched a bottle of claret from her grandfather 's stock and they had been drinking it liberally . |
| 8 | ‘ We do n't know where the men had been or where they were going or whether they had been drinking or not . |
| 9 | Drunks and drug-takers are less susceptible to pain , because their senses are numbed by whatever they have been drinking or taking . |
| 10 | 50,000 children are admitted into hospital each year because they have been drinking harmful products . |
| 11 | " Maybe they have been drinking tizwin , " he said . |
| 12 | Thirty of them had been drinking so heavily that they forgot to get off at Peterborough to catch their connection to Harwich . |