Example sentences of "they have been [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ They 've been trying all sorts of stuff , ’ said Angalo . |
| 7 | And they 've been smashing all different people 's ones . |
| 8 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 10 | They 've been planning this for months . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 13 | They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so . |
| 14 | But they 've they 've been doing that since er last century . |
| 15 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 16 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | they 've been doing that anyway . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I know they 've been doing that for ages . |
| 21 | After all , they 've been doing this longer than you have . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They 've been racing each other for years and have developed a friendly rivalry . |
| 24 | it just goes on , but I said to Sandra where they 've been parking all these cars , Alan over the road he comes out just after six o'clock and goes to London every day and I do n't know how he got his car out with the |
| 25 | Erm , but it is a body , it 's corpus as in body and and what the British National Corpus is doing , is putting together a massive amount of spoken English , erm , from all sorts of different contexts , and one of the contexts which they want spoken English from is an educational context , and so they are having to record you people , as they 've been recording some other people erm , in other educational institutions around the country and so on . |
| 26 | It would have been much better if they had been getting some therapy to help them understand why they needed to take drugs in the first place . |
| 27 | Then , hoping he could remember enough of the ancient language of chivalry and selecting his words with extreme care , he said , ‘ Good Trees , we ask your assistance , ’ and saw the Elms nod to one another meaningfully , as if they had been expecting all along to be asked to do something for the Humans . |
| 28 | However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age . |
| 29 | Even if they had been trying all the years between . |
| 30 | They had been working all the evening , sewing Rosie 's wedding-dress , and it would be terribly unlucky if the bridegroom set eyes on it before the great day . |