Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] [verb] [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 | Waiting for this programme and erm when the husband , her partner went home they 'd been to see this , I do n't know quite what happened |
| 3 | And they 'd been commissioned both of them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some tenants to whom this happens every few months said they 'd been told that next time they 'd have to sort it out themselves . |
| 6 | They 'd been re-used many times , titles and references and hasty notes making it difficult to see any sign of what the current contents might be . |
| 7 | What they did is took half and used it to reduce their contributions and it was a large reduction , it was a reduction from twelve to currently five per cent . |
| 8 | Nevertheless if they were going to fly again they were gon na pay for a seat and they 're only looking for some recompense towards a new new ticket what 's wrong with sending them a voucher y'know , a properly produced voucher that we c that 's controlled properly by and all they do is guarantee any travel at their normal travel agent , do the business , attach the voucher to the B S P |
| 9 | all they do is diddle some keys and it goes off to T S B and then it goes into your account , that 's the way it 's supposed to work |
| 10 | Well there 's that I mean there 's all , there 's a whole range of things , there 's ghoulish voyeurism right , I mean that that 's important , there 's also the way the Royals have been peddled by the media over the decades and the fact that you know this has been how they 've been tendered this is what they actually are and that y you , you know what I 'm saying that erm or whatever it is between this is what they are , this is what we 've been and they do n't match , they really do n't match . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What kind of people d' you think I the first year psychology students they 've been given some sexual orientation ? |
| 15 | ‘ They 've been trying all sorts of stuff , ’ said Angalo . |
| 16 | And they 've been smashing all different people 's ones . |
| 17 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 19 | They 've been planning this for months . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 22 | They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so . |
| 23 | More recently the Solstice has attracted thousands of New Age travellers , but they 've been banned this year by the same injuctions that now govern Castlemorton common in Worcestershire , where an illegal festival just over a year ago attracted 20,000 travellers . |
| 24 | But they 've they 've been doing that since er last century . |
| 25 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 26 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | they 've been doing that anyway . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I know they 've been doing that for ages . |