Example sentences of "they have [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | The scenery they 'd been flashing through was spectacular , endless coconut and banana palms , glimpses of white sand and water , fluttering green against deep blue and silver . |
2 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
3 | Yes that , I think that 's possibly true , er , I was talking to Cambridge there about oh fifteen , twenty minutes ago and they said it was raining with them , and then they 'd been talking over to somebody over in Coventry and it 's , it 's snowing there |
4 | I was afraid they 'd been carrying on . ’ |
5 | Well me Auntie Jean and me Mum got passed once , like they 'd been going down and scrubbing it from side at bath and everything . |
6 | boy , boy friends before , they married them , they were n't sleep , if they 'd been sleeping around then I would of said something , then I would of said something to them , |
7 | Yeah well at the end of the day I mean I I was n't there but a the facts at the end of the day were that they 'd been buggering about with that radio system which they should n't do . |
8 | Over the past few weeks they 'd been rubbing along fairly civilly , though not without the occasional spark flying between them . |
9 | Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see . |
10 | Er , although they 've been moving around with me , but er they did very well in their studies in the end . |
11 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
12 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
13 | Remember the the boat 's been filling with water , they 've been bailing out in desperation , after they 'd done everything that they can do they then turn round and said , Lord , do n't you care we 're gon na drown ? |
14 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
15 | they 're talking none about the , the economy and turn up before the end of the year , this , the , the , they 've been hanging on and on and on , and er slagging one another off all the time |
16 | At least they 've been shouting out . |
17 | ‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years . |
18 | Erm in March the top branch was erm Hugh erm interestingly enough erm in the south erm Nicholas erm was well down on recruitment , he was down minus twenty seven on his fore on his target , but was significantly up on his bus business that he brought in because they 've been focusing on er in on that . |
19 | They 've been knocking around since Christmas . |
20 | Mind you the best ones would be by er those ones they 've been selling off to the highest offer . |
21 | The sales force is a problem they 've been working on for awhile and could be in a position to snap off in a few months . |
22 | Yeah well th cos they 've been waiting up there on the thing and they 've land or they 've just been circ |
23 | They 've been running up and down the place doing all the good play . |
24 | They 've been closing down since I 've known them |
25 | They have no speech beyond grunts , but they 've been surviving out here . ’ |
26 | And they 've been carrying out an exhaustive search for clues . |
27 | They 've been fighting out there for bloody years . ’ |
28 | Constant hum , people started from the first day and they 've been flowing through ever since with a high point at the weekend when they 've had more time to come up to London to have a look at things look at things . |
29 | All the people that I 've seen trying to do it have all my sympathy , because I know what they 've been going through . |
30 | I know that our children by enlarge er their vocabulary does n't extend to erm what er , polysyllabic words which which might really sum up for an adult what they 've been going through , how they 've enjoyed it but what is the terrible form we had last year in seventh year , was it seven G ? |