Example sentences of "they have be [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been watching the site for some time . |
| 2 | They 'd been watching the premises for several months . |
| 3 | They 'd been sharing a cell for the last two years . |
| 4 | ‘ They 'd been raiding the school at the end of Dwyer Street . ’ |
| 5 | 2 families had to leave their homes after they were terrorised by a mob , angry they 'd been helping the Police to catch the joyriders . |
| 6 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 7 | There were rumours they 'd been having an affair while he was actually teaching her , when she would have been fifteen ; there were rumours the girl was pregnant . |
| 8 | ‘ The man , who was known to the police , was one of the knockers they 'd been keeping an eye on . |
| 9 | They 've been charting the progress of Rob Coles throughout the British Steel challenge … possibly the toughest seafaring test he 'll ever experience . |
| 10 | er but gradually they 've been building the workforce back up again , |
| 11 | It is no coincidence either that members of the Boo-Yaa Tribe appear in UK adverts for Carhartt : they 've been wearing the gear for ages . |
| 12 | Avon and Somerset Police told us they 've been monitoring the situation closely , but so far they 've been unable to press criminal charges . |
| 13 | And can I just comment on one point by Mr , he said about they 've been using the local government erm housing Act . |
| 14 | I know they 've been pulling a lot out |
| 15 | Rumour has it they 've been perfecting the belly crawl and crawling down rabbit holes to hide . |
| 16 | ‘ That girl who was killed the other night , they 've been checking the area . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah erm she put , she said Gateway 's th they 've been selling a lot and there is none in Lynn . |
| 18 | At this school in Oxford they 've been running an arts week , helping the children to write their own play and make the scenery . |
| 19 | Even they know that the way they 've been running the club is hardly likely to gain them a good press . |
| 20 | ‘ We lease the land out to the forestry people , and they 've been doing a helicopter survey . ’ |
| 21 | Well they are anyway cos they 've been doing the test at eleven ! |
| 22 | Erm the R M I F bloke was there and he said that 's the second one he 's been to where they 've been doing the training and the launch at the same time and neither of them 've gone well . |
| 23 | They 've been paying the mortgage interest since July . |
| 24 | They 've been testing the top-of-the-range model , the one with the voice activated selector , on site … |
| 25 | If they 've been changing the pipes or digging them up or something they often flush it through with a load of chlorine , the water of or b Boil it erm As water get 's hotter , and something like sugar , would you get would you find , Let's say you get a cup of cold water and you try and dissolve as much sugar as you can in it , and then you try hot water , try disolv |
| 26 | They 've been playing The Marquee every week . |
| 27 | They 've been following the progress of around 150 bats . |
| 28 | They 've been restoring a battered old narrowboat . |
| 29 | Reading it , the British discovered that they had been speaking the imperial equivalent of prose all their lives . |
| 30 | Since about 1840 they had been expanding the scope of their products to include the whole range of cotton-processing machinery . |