Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of bed numbers it has substantially more relative to population than either London or New York , but like them has been closing short stay beds steadily since the mid-1970s . |
| 2 | So after they 'd been using this stuff with no windows open or anything , one of the workmen began to feel a little bit groggy so he said to his mate and open the back door Charlie , will you , I 'm feeling a bit groggy . |
| 3 | As she 'd said to Ben when they 'd been getting ready to go to bed last night , you could practically feel the highly charged sexy atmosphere between that pair of love-birds ! |
| 4 | They 'd been sitting still for too long . |
| 5 | Erm and people had been paying insurance i it changed then cos some of the farmers could go on their pension they 'd been paying this new scheme you see . |
| 6 | ‘ All Friday night they 'd been showing Sheedy free kicks on the box . |
| 7 | Analysis of samples collected from puddles on Hyde Heath by Friends of the Earth found high levels of ammonia , nitrogen and chloride , pollution which they claim is damaging boggy areas and endangering resident species . |
| 8 | Whaling communities in the Faroe Islands have approached Greenpeace for help over growing marine pollution , which they claim is making locally-killed pilot whales inedible . |
| 9 | Peter Bateman of Rentokil says there 's a reason for their bad behaviour — they 've been getting drunk on rotten fruit . |
| 10 | Erm again mean time that the Americans er the Americans much more production , they 've been producing all this time anyway cos they 've got high productivity , need it for two hundred million people . |
| 11 | Yeah it 's more difficult to keep up with others if they if they 're older and they 've been learning this stuff for a lot longer |
| 12 | The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor . |
| 13 | They 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources and expertise , to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 14 | And yet they 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources , both finance and , and manpower resources and expertise to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 15 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 16 | ‘ They 've been trying all sorts of stuff , ’ said Angalo . |
| 17 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 18 | And they 've been smashing all different people 's ones . |
| 19 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 21 | They 've been planning this for months . |
| 22 | And quite apart from the general interest they 've been fetching high prices . |
| 23 | That 's why the windows of the houses are so small — so that they do n't have to see where they 've been working all day long . |
| 24 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 25 | They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so . |
| 26 | Good god lad , so erm , she said oh I know I 've been naughty and I have , not neglecting him in a naut , you know , they 've been making sure he 's been alright |
| 27 | But they 've they 've been doing that since er last century . |
| 28 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 29 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 30 | So what they 've done is they 've picked a way of doing but they kept chopping and changing the way they 've been doing that all the time . |