Example sentences of "that they 've been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 2 | Okay has anybody ever assumed things with people that they 've been training ? |
| 3 | But beware — the Black Night 's ghoulish cohorts are everywhere , and rumour has it that they 've been dabbling in the dark arts … |
| 4 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
| 5 | Mike says that they 've been working hard to organise the trip — and is not bothered about the risk of visiting the country . |
| 6 | Oh yes very much so and we 've been these er lots secretaries and presidents and all miners and that they 've been coming up you know and er you had a chat with them and they put us do n't let this happen , do n't let that happen , and make sure that erm you know people do n't suffer and er oh it 's been quite a vast experience for us yeah . |
| 7 | Is actually to terrify the p poor and to drive them in into a s an under and this is part of their philosophy that they 've been following since nineteen seventy nine under Mrs Thatcher . |
| 8 | Any nation has to learn democracy er , and it seems to me that all the people of the Soviet Union have shown over the last four or five years a lively interest in politics and considerable to participate in politics , er one of the problems is of course is that they 've been doing so , too much and in too disorganised a way , they 're going to have to get together . |
| 9 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 10 | Erm , it does n't matter what I propose , whether it actually makes out things that they 've been talking about or whether it 's completely found something to criticise about it . |
| 11 | The responsibility will now be theirs and they 'd better get on with it and better show things that they 've been arguing and get along . |