Example sentences of "they [verb] been do [det] " in BNC.

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1 But they 've they 've been doing that since er last century .
2 They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour .
3 I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't .
4 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 .
5 they 've been doing that anyway .
6 They started to especially trainee managers , spending periods of time in the smaller branch , and they 've got to get on with that concern , but I think there are benefits since they 've been doing that .
7 I know they 've been doing that for ages .
8 After all , they 've been doing this longer than you have .
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 What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know .
11 We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area .
12 They have been doing this in Suffolk for almost 110 years , comforting the sick and lonely , and relieving the worries of the anxious and elderly .
13 Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built .
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