Example sentences of "and it have be [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 And it had been going , you see me stomach as well .
2 It 's over 220 yards , of course , and it had been playing long all week .
3 Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield .
4 ‘ They 're what you get in the sky when the sun shines and it 's been raining
5 And it 's been coming from Austria this week
6 and it 's been running well since I just
7 Carriage driving for the disabled began about 20 years ago and it 's been growing in popularity ever since .
8 You know all about what 's going on ; and it 's been going on under me nose .
9 We 'll debate and these instructions , but there 's always this shortfall , and it 's been going on for far too long , and we still have an increasing number of responsibilities , and I just find it extremely distressing to have to sit here time and time again , to go through doing things that we really know we should n't be .
10 Moorlake is much too big for her and it 's been going steadily to rack and ruin for years .
11 in time and it 's been going for about five years .
12 Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue
13 erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ?
14 I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time .
15 The department monitors the inmate population , offences against prison rules and the penalties awarded ; it assists management in determining security grades and in assessments on life sentence prisoners ; and it has been looking at the structures of meetings , the effectiveness of communications and the problems of stress in staff .
16 It is tough on criminals and supportive of police , and it has been languishing in these hallowed halls for years now . "
17 It seems to have got stuck and it has been playing the same bit over and over .
18 members to members , and not perhaps for officers to interfere too much other than to give you background information , and it has been falling off , let me just say that .
19 For one thing , the people elected Solidarity to govern and it has been governing for barely seven months .
20 They were offered the job and it has been working very well .
21 ( This story seems to have originated in North America half a century ago and it has been cropping up all over that continent ever since . )
22 Breeding was confirmed ten years later in the Kent marshes , and it has been increasing in numbers and colonising more reed beds in the years since .
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