Example sentences of "they [vb past] [be] [v-ing] [adj] " 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 | As she 'd said to Ben when they 'd been getting ready to go to bed last night , you could practically feel the highly charged sexy atmosphere between that pair of love-birds ! |
| 3 | They 'd been sitting still for too long . |
| 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 | ‘ All Friday night they 'd been showing Sheedy free kicks on the box . |
| 6 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Lead miners in the northern Pennines were earning 10s ( 50p ) a week by 1797 and 11s 6d ( 57½p ) by 1815 , whereas before the war they had been earning 7s 6d ( 37½p ) ; a money-wage increase of around 50 per cent over the war years seems indicated , implying a real-wage fall of about 10 per cent . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age . |
| 11 | They told him it was a welcome to Petrograd by the revolutionary workers and sailors : they had been roaring one word " Lenin " . |
| 12 | Even if they had been trying all the years between . |
| 13 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In a recent South African trial resulting from a rail accident , the drivers concerned denied responsibility on the grounds that they had been working compulsory 18-hour shifts . |
| 16 | When they landed there was no choice but to start the ten-mile journey to Achnacarry Castle on foot , so they set off , even though they had been walking all day . |
| 17 | ‘ You see , ’ he went on as though they had been talking all afternoon , ‘ I had no idea until this morning that you were in the same state as I. ’ |
| 18 | They had been dumping all their notes till then in landfill sites . ’ |
| 19 | What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know . |
| 20 | We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area . |
| 21 | These 42ft vehicles were sleeping saloons and , after they had been running some little time , some ordinary coaches 34ft in length , carried on six wheels , were built ; these had a total wheel base of 22ft , or 11 ft between centres . |
| 22 | They sat on hard upright chairs in a draughty passage , and all the excitement they had been feeling drained out of them , seeping through the soles of their shoes and vanishing into the linoleum . |
| 23 | " They had been heaping dried brackens and whins , with peats here and there among the pelf , in a line along the trench ; and one struck a light with his flint and fired the pile . |
| 24 | They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it . |
| 25 | DETECTIVES investigating an alleged attack on two prisoners found unconscious in their cell were yesterday working on the theory they had been fighting each other . |
| 26 | However , the spokesman said : ‘ It now looks as though they had been fighting each other and nobody else was involved . ’ |
| 27 | Yes sir he told me that er would know because they ha had been together in prison and that he also had information that they had been planning armed robberies together . |