Example sentences of "they have [been] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 2 | Derek said they 'd been having sex ! |
| 3 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 4 | You 'd go to a school where they 'd been doing French or Latin for two or three years and you had n't done any at all . |
| 5 | They 'd been designing tube amps for decades , and manufacturing them on site , whereas other companies were perhaps wanting to get into the tube amp market from scratch . |
| 6 | So they 'd been playing cat and mouse game and er it has n't paid off you know . |
| 7 | They 've been taking part in Playday '92 … a national event emphasising the importance of play . |
| 8 | At Harwell laboratories , they 've been monitoring air pollution and found the levels went up during the recent hot spell . |
| 9 | They 've been using flight manouevres last seen in the Vietnam war to avoid being hit by gunfire from the ground . |
| 10 | They 've been serving coffee here for three hundred years , ’ he confided . |
| 11 | They 've been measuring performance in terms of delivering the right product at the right time — On Time In full . |
| 12 | They 've been making VIDEO diaries , which go on show next month . |
| 13 | They 've been going for years , they 've been making motor oils , engine oil , it 's called filtrate so that 's the liquid . |
| 14 | They 've been making vitamin pills at GR Lane Health Products in Gloucester for sixty years . |
| 15 | THEY 'VE been making room for murder at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre , Guildford this week , and proved that given the right stage , crime certainly does pay . |
| 16 | Oh yes but they 've been doing distance learning course they 've got the biggest distance learning course in Europe |
| 17 | Tenants in a house at Brockworth near Gloucester , who say they 've been paying rent for six months , barracaded themselves in when they heard they were being evicted because their landlord had defaulted on his mortgage . |
| 18 | But I do n't like the way he 'd er , all this , all about er how you 'll be annually taxed under Labour because the truth is that even under the Conservatives , all the years they 've been in , and all the years they 've been reducing tax , taxes from time to time , indirect taxation increased |
| 19 | ‘ They 've been cutting turf since daybreak , making the most of the good weather . ’ |
| 20 | Going for gold in the world rowing championships are the Henley pair of Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent … they 've been cruising thro the early heats … |
| 21 | They 've been putting pressure on this chap Morris to renew Sykes 's fellowship , and the clincher is he was going to do it on Monday . ’ |
| 22 | On March 9 the Polish Foreign Ministry protested to the Lithuanian government about a decision to ban by April 1 all textbooks printed in foreign countries , which in particular affected Polish schools in Lithuania as they had been using history books printed in Poland . |
| 23 | Halfway through the letter , Bruno said in German : ‘ Ah , he is a major in their Army , ’ and then smiled hastily at Maxim because he had forgotten they had been speaking German earlier . |
| 24 | They had been drinking chica and swayed as they stood up . |
| 25 | He opened a bottle of champagne and before she had a chance to realise what was happening they had been making love . |
| 26 | They were talking rationally now , as adults , just as she had asked , but underneath the façade of civilised behaviour her heart was still doing funny things , and the electricity between them was as powerful as if they had been making love . |
| 27 | Source C " The impression left on the minds of those who heard the speech , after the first sensations of surprise had passed , was that the whole thing had been arranged long before and that , while in the Cabinet and committee they had been making panic stricken efforts to balance the budget , the whole business had been a humbug and make-believe . " |
| 28 | The defendants also ran a wire service and it was found by the judge that they had been obtaining information from a subscriber to the plaintiff 's service for republication by them . |
| 29 | They had been working night and day since his arrival in Bordeaux . |
| 30 | Their survival in office challenged efficient management of the duchy and may have entailed actual financial loss if they had been keeping revenue in their own hands . |