Example sentences of "they have been [v-ing] the " 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 raiding the school at the end of Dwyer Street . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They 've been charting the progress of Rob Coles throughout the British Steel challenge … possibly the toughest seafaring test he 'll ever experience . |
| 6 | er but gradually they 've been building the workforce back up again , |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Avon and Somerset Police told us they 've been monitoring the situation closely , but so far they 've been unable to press criminal charges . |
| 9 | And can I just comment on one point by Mr , he said about they 've been using the local government erm housing Act . |
| 10 | Rumour has it they 've been perfecting the belly crawl and crawling down rabbit holes to hide . |
| 11 | ‘ That girl who was killed the other night , they 've been checking the area . ’ |
| 12 | Even they know that the way they 've been running the club is hardly likely to gain them a good press . |
| 13 | Well they are anyway cos they 've been doing the test at eleven ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They 've been paying the mortgage interest since July . |
| 16 | They 've been testing the top-of-the-range model , the one with the voice activated selector , on site … |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | They 've been playing The Marquee every week . |
| 19 | They 've been following the progress of around 150 bats . |
| 20 | Reading it , the British discovered that they had been speaking the imperial equivalent of prose all their lives . |
| 21 | Since about 1840 they had been expanding the scope of their products to include the whole range of cotton-processing machinery . |
| 22 | ‘ Did you want me , Myra ? ’ she asked as calmly as if they had been discussing the weather and not within an ace of making either love or war . |
| 23 | ‘ They had been discussing the idea that a pet should be for life not just for Christmas and decided to take the idea a step further , ’ she said . |
| 24 | Whilst they had been watching the protesters , a waitress had come out of The Crossed Keys hotel on the corner of the square carrying a tray of interesting-looking glasses . |
| 25 | As the boats began to leave the mouth of the River Tees , where they had been barring the way to Teesport , they claimed their eight-hour show of strength had been a success . |
| 26 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 27 | They had been defending the building for 31 days and there was blood on the floor . |
| 28 | Almost as if they had been awaiting the signal of an extra moon , they now took their prancings into a more intense phase . |
| 29 | Students who are entitled to transitional relief will receive ⅕ of the relief they would have received if they had been paying the full community charge . |
| 30 | For nearly a generation they had been resisting the introduction of written inventories of peasant obligations , whose purpose was to prevent noblemen treating serfs in the arbitrary manner to which they were accustomed . |