Example sentences of "they 've been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 32 | The women who do , I suspect , may never see those first grey hairs at all ; they 've been highlighting for so long that the colour of their hair has always been a matter of choice . |
| 33 | A lot of people started handing in pellet guns and antique muzzle-loaders they 've been keeping for years without a licence . |
| 34 | They 've been revolting for years under the surface and then some thing happens that make it possible course the continued revolutions have gone on through the world and because they 've seen the success of a revolution in Russia although we did n't know the full facts of it in the West , it was , it did establish a huge area in the wake of a revolution . |
| 35 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 36 | Cos they have n't , they , they 've been asking for |
| 37 | They 've been going for years , they 've been making motor oils , engine oil , it 's called filtrate so that 's the liquid . |
| 38 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 39 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 40 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |