Example sentences of "they have be [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | P.P.S I see they 've been feeding Mark H on the raw meat again : - ) ) ) How did ‘ Antiscum United ’ go on over the weekend by the way ? ? |
| 2 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Derek said they 'd been having sex ! |
| 5 | That 's why I think people got in debt because they 'd been having things that they could n't afford , I mean er , at one time you was never encouraged to ha er have things , now I mean the minute they see you 're getting low on your , oh have something else , have something else |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | said they 'd been recording things for her wanting to see what she does see when she 's old . |
| 8 | Three tenants in the house say they 'd been paying £120 a week rent to their landlord , a Mr Vincent Cox . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So they 'd been playing cat and mouse game and er it has n't paid off you know . |
| 12 | You could rarely get a straight answer from any of them , they 'd been dodging questions about his father for so long ; evasion was a way of life with them . |
| 13 | Mm , well obviously they 've been casting bonds and tell judgment |
| 14 | They 've been taking part in Playday '92 … a national event emphasising the importance of play . |
| 15 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 16 | They 've been chasing Richard all round the grass , all round the lawn . |
| 17 | At Harwell laboratories , they 've been monitoring air pollution and found the levels went up during the recent hot spell . |
| 18 | They 've been using flight manouevres last seen in the Vietnam war to avoid being hit by gunfire from the ground . |
| 19 | They 've been serving coffee here for three hundred years , ’ he confided . |
| 20 | You see even when they tell the truth , if they 've been telling lies for a long time , even if they , when they tell the truth you do n't believe them |
| 21 | ‘ They 've been buying postcards . |
| 22 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
| 23 | They 've been measuring performance in terms of delivering the right product at the right time — On Time In full . |
| 24 | ‘ I know they 've been questioning Mr Willard but he was the one who found her . ’ |
| 25 | They 've been making VIDEO diaries , which go on show next month . |
| 26 | They 've been going for years , they 've been making motor oils , engine oil , it 's called filtrate so that 's the liquid . |
| 27 | They 've been making vitamin pills at GR Lane Health Products in Gloucester for sixty years . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Oh yes but they 've been doing distance learning course they 've got the biggest distance learning course in Europe |
| 30 | As long as they 've been racing hangliders in Britian Pete Harvey from Milton Keynes has flown as fast and soared as high as the very best … |