Example sentences of "then [pron] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up till then I 'd been using Rickenbackers , and a ‘ 65 Telecaster I 'd bought which had been my main instrument for writing the material . |
| 2 | ‘ Up until then I 'd been using gas and air and they were just about to give me some pethidine when all this serious discussion began . |
| 3 | Ever since then I 've been trying to get the speed back . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ No , but then I 've been thinking about the amniocentesis . |
| 5 | Since then I 've been thinking it over and I 've come up with an idea . |
| 6 | ‘ Since then I 've been training every day , and going on runs . |
| 7 | I 've been going to bed at half past one and I was doing the T M A for two nights , then I 've been doing his V A T for two nights so I 've got to bed really really late and I just and , the thing is , the T M A were all on about my then I just start to relax I had to resort to herbal knockout drops . |
| 8 | If they do , then I 've been running them very inefficiently and incompetently . |
| 9 | I spent three months in the Canaries , and since then I 've been travelling between England and Ireland . |
| 10 | Since then I have been trying to gain recognition from Technics . |
| 11 | And he added , in a voice that would have done credit to an elder of the Wee Frees , ‘ If he is yer brother , then ye 've been committin' incest . |
| 12 | I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards . |
| 13 | come on then we 've been waiting for you to come , come on |
| 14 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 15 | So we can only concentrate our efforts and what we have been concentrating our efforts on is not turning any place into a nuclear dump , then we have been concentrating on our union 's policy which is the retention of all the facilities and job security for our members . |
| 16 | Previous results showed that the subpolar North Atlantic had warmed between the early 1950s and early 1970s , whereas since then there has been cooling . |
| 17 | Well , they were perching on the erm chimneys of that one and then they 've been coming they 're gon na be swooping round up not actually low but above it , about fly to the bathroom then spread up , turning a circle , coming down and going past my window and land |
| 18 | Then they had been sinking on to the bed and , between kisses and caresses , peeling the clothes hungrily from one another , until at last they lay naked , side by side . |
| 19 | Yes that , I think that 's possibly true , er , I was talking to Cambridge there about oh fifteen , twenty minutes ago and they said it was raining with them , and then they 'd been talking over to somebody over in Coventry and it 's , it 's snowing there |
| 20 | Since then they have been effecting a gradual programme of repair , restoration and alteration . |
| 21 | For this I gave them about 30p , which is rather a lot , & since then they have been running up to me when they see me , offering to polish up my briefcase etc . |
| 22 | Since then it had been showing a worrying tendency , when Rincewind was feeling rundown or especially threatened , to try to get itself said . |
| 23 | I think that since then it has been damaging . ’ |
| 24 | Until then he 'd been expecting Blagg , and he might know exactly what he 'd left . ’ |
| 25 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 26 | Since then he had been trying to write the second book . |
| 27 | Up until then he had been acting temporarily in the post , awaiting the arrival of a more experienced businessman . |
| 28 | Since then he had been farming at Mullu , some fifteen miles outside Addis Ababa . |
| 29 | In Midnight Run he was fine , but since then he 's been cranking them out , turning in performances which are almost parodic rehashes of the masculine confusions and bullish challenges of his past roles . |
| 30 | Well he he takes the car to school , but , and it , sorry takes the car to work and before he 's bringing the car home and then he 's been going to school on his bike . |