Example sentences of "they have be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | They 'd been sitting still for too long . |
| 3 | ‘ All Friday night they 'd been showing Sheedy free kicks on the box . |
| 4 | Peter Bateman of Rentokil says there 's a reason for their bad behaviour — they 've been getting drunk on rotten fruit . |
| 5 | They 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources and expertise , to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 6 | And yet they 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources , both finance and , and manpower resources and expertise to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 7 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 8 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 9 | And quite apart from the general interest they 've been fetching high prices . |
| 10 | Good god lad , so erm , she said oh I know I 've been naughty and I have , not neglecting him in a naut , you know , they 've been making sure he 's been alright |
| 11 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
| 12 | Hence my association with Flip , because they 've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years . |
| 13 | People have paid deposits of $500 … they 've been paying weekly payments of $125 so it could be quite considerable but it could run to thousands of pounds |
| 14 | Byrne reckons they 've been playing brill recently and are just waiting for a chance like this — but he was talking before they got turned over 0–3 by the makems last night . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | " 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 50,000 children are admitted into hospital each year because they have been drinking harmful products . |
| 23 | In the last 20 years they have been using invisible nylon gill nets half a mile long and more . |
| 24 | They have been pestering other UN agencies , embassies and local traders , so far without success . |
| 25 | They have been paying ridiculous rents of up to DM120 for the little decent office space that now exists in eastern Berlin — about twice as much as they would pay for similar space in the western part of the city . |
| 26 | They have been protecting dissident groups and appealing for non-violence . |
| 27 | ‘ They have been leading separate lives for years now . |
| 28 | I 've filmed the training sessions where they have been practising collapsing on purpose to cancel out our traditional strength in this department . |
| 29 | It is only when you stop scanning the horizon for monumental shapes that you realise they have been looming unnoticed in the foreground all along . |