Example sentences of "they 've be [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know they 've been writing them . |
| 2 | now , you know , they 've been watching them , they know they 're a blind couple , I mean blind people feel that vulnerable that you 're asking them to go |
| 3 | ‘ I think they 've been watching me to see what I eat . |
| 4 | around or over the world in 30 days of driving … that 's the dream of two local motoring enthusiasts who are taking their old morgan car on the longest … the toughest rally of them all … they 've been getting themselves into gear in the Malverns and we 're off there to join them for our Friday feature |
| 5 | They 've been building it for God knows how long , cancelling trains , people ca n't get on or off the platforms . |
| 6 | They 've been calling me a baboon and shit . |
| 7 | They 've been calling us cheats , but I had to call on our manager to try to put a stop to some of their own little tricks at Headingley . |
| 8 | Last year they were calling it Howards ' Way with horses , this year they 've been calling it Howards ' Way without boats . |
| 9 | There was one though on the Antique Road Show where there 's erm er girl brought in a kettle and they 've been using it just every day and it was pottery and it was actually to buy her her own house . |
| 10 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 11 | I says , he wo n't cos they 've been feeding him . |
| 12 | ‘ They 've been hiding it , you know . |
| 13 | They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines . |
| 14 | They 've been spreading their net higher and higher these last few years . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , the people who make the system decided to redesign the bit that connects the two computers — they 've been redesigning it for months . |
| 16 | We went to the er B M A or the G M C I 'm not quite sure which and asked if we could could approach er doctors for this and they 've been snapping our hands off ever since . |
| 17 | But after a four month lay-off the people who have to open them can get rather out of practice , so they 've been sharpening their skills against each other . |
| 18 | It 's a legal document … but they 've been telling me that all along . |
| 19 | they had , they 've been telling everyone to go home . |
| 20 | And then one day , they 've been telling you for years , You ca n't do that . |
| 21 | ‘ They 've been bringing their dogs to do their business in my front garden , and if I go to the council , d' you know what they 'll say ? |
| 22 | But they 've been knocking everything down . |
| 23 | They 've been having their meals in her office . |
| 24 | and you can see the highlights of the Blenheim Horse Trials on Channel Four on Saturday September the twenty sixth … the next big sunday event for horse fans around here will be in November when Cheltenham races stage the first ever sunday jump meeting … they 've been unveiling their plans today … here 's Mark Kiff |
| 25 | From early this morning they 've been celebrating their seventh birthdays with cards , sweets and of course plenty of presents . |
| 26 | ‘ They 've been questioning him . |
| 27 | They 've been making them for 30 years . |
| 28 | And they 've been making it for right on four years now , backed by the colourful and wily One Little Indian label , earning themselves Single Of The Week round here pretty much every time they put one out , and doing quite nicely in end-of-year writers ' charts too . |
| 29 | It has been difficult while they 've been doing their exams , so we 've not been able to get them together as much as I would have liked . |
| 30 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |