Example sentences of "they [verb] been [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pushed by a couple of drunks who had just appeared bearing the same bottle of Hirondelle they 'd been using to get into parties all year and made my way upstairs . |
| 2 | They 'd been itching to do something to help for all this time , and as soon as the campaign started they rushed into action . |
| 3 | The ship was n't even properly victualled for the crew : they 'd been going to take food on at Crete . |
| 4 | It was nearly a year since Dunkirk , and if they 'd been going to come , surely they 'd not have waited this long . |
| 5 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 6 | Oh they 've been swimming have they ? |
| 7 | They 've been trying to see about that lot where the boys ' grammar school is int they ? |
| 8 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 9 | They 've been trying to find alternative berths for incoming cargoes and negotiating the release of ships waiting to sail on the night time . |
| 10 | This council needs to take seriously crime prevention and crime detection and most of all fear of crime , and that 's why it 's become part of the policy committee 's concern , and I think that 's with the police committee 's agreement , for years they 've been trying to tell us to get involved in crime prevention , and from next year we 're going to do that . |
| 11 | They 've been trying to get the police on the cheap for too long , and blaming us , and now I think the tables are very reversed . |
| 12 | Mrs Draper says they 've been trying to get a larger home for years . |
| 13 | They 've been trying to get him out for years and years ! |
| 14 | They 've been trying to come to terms with what 's happened ever since . |
| 15 | For the last few days , though , they 've been having to train where and when they can . |
| 16 | Well they 've been very direct and they 've been having to make me think a lot about what I 'm doing . |
| 17 | money for light and they 've been having to keep her pension and like giving her so much at a time because it 's been going missing with all the money ! |
| 18 | Mummy said we were going to spend next Christmas there — it 's a thing they 've been meaning to do for ages . ’ |
| 19 | Erm I think it 's somewhere down near where the Road police station is now , and erm you know they had been hoping to get premises down there . |
| 20 | The powerful midfielder , Mauro Silva , was the playmaker they had been looking to build the team around . |
| 21 | Three people with incendiary devices were found in a car … they said they had been intending to commit a serious crime and they just walk out of court . |
| 22 | They opened her up , but could see no trace of the ulcer they had been expecting to find . |
| 23 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |
| 24 | Radio of Russia on Feb. 16 said that Russian enterprises had a powerful incentive to acquire roubles , and that because of a lack of roubles , they were being forced to put goods on the market which they had been trying to hold back . |
| 25 | Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united . |
| 26 | Their bodies were contorted and you could see they had been trying to protect their faces with their hands . ’ |
| 27 | Rookies were all the same in the beginning , eager to please and desperate to be judged favourably by their superiors , but within the space of a few months they had become as bitter and cynical as the seasoned policemen they had been trying to impress . |
| 28 | They had been trying to contact her for several days . |
| 29 | After three weeks of intense work and numerous rejected ideas the creative team of copywriter Liz Whiston and art director Dave Shelton felt they had been trying to solve one of humanity 's great challenges . |
| 30 | They had been trying to maintain a steady pace , between hopping and running , and it had come hard . |