Example sentences of "but they have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Culdub Oakapple opened his mouth to say that acclaim was all very well in its way , but they had been hoping for something a bit more financial than that , but the two Gnomes on each side of him trod on his foot to stop him , because you could not always trust the Oakapple to be tactful . |
| 2 | But they had been saying so for years , for more than a decade now . |
| 3 | It 's a legal document … but they 've been telling me that all along . |
| 4 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 5 | No they 're not but they 've been getting on all right really . |
| 6 | But they 've been knocking everything down . |
| 7 | But they 've been keeping it though have n't they ? |
| 8 | They have no speech beyond grunts , but they 've been surviving out here . ’ |
| 9 | Oh yes but they 've been doing distance learning course they 've got the biggest distance learning course in Europe |
| 10 | But they have been sneering at America since Sidney Smith , François Mauriac and George Grosz and will go on doing so long after Harold Pinter is gone . |
| 11 | But they have been saying that for 20 years . |