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 . |