Example sentences of "they have be have " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it .
3 True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other .
4 That 's why I think people got in debt because they 'd been having things that they could n't afford , I mean er , at one time you was never encouraged to ha er have things , now I mean the minute they see you 're getting low on your , oh have something else , have something else
5 Derek said they 'd been having sex !
6 Increasingly , skilled counterfeiting has led to some high street stores selling goods they believed were the real thing , only to find they 'd been had .
7 What improbable thoughts could they have been having ?
8 Everybody , unless they 've been had their head in the ground for the last thirteen years , know damn well that they 're not going to get housed off the needs register particularly quickly and they only go to people who are most unable to be housed by any other means are going to bother even to put their names on the needs register .
9 There was a bit in the paper today about er Ratners , in the Samuels outlet selling carriage clocks for three hundred pounds and claiming that they are solid mahogany cases , but as they 're chipboard with a mahogany veneer , and er they 've been had by the Trades Descriptions Act , three , who would pay three hundred pounds for a mahogany one anyway ?
10 A resident of the North Shore will look at a wave and say , ‘ Bad weather they 've been having in Alaska ’ , or ‘ I see Siberia is in trouble again ’ .
11 ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it .
12 Well they 've been very direct and they 've been having to make me think a lot about what I 'm doing .
13 They 've been having their meals in her office .
14 For the last few days , though , they 've been having to train where and when they can .
15 money for light and they 've been having to keep her pension and like giving her so much at a time because it 's been going missing with all the money !
16 How lucky they had been to have grandparents living at Thrush Green , thought Joan , looking back to those happy days with affection .
17 Suppose they had been having an affair , and she 'd dropped him ? ’
18 They had been having their usual discussion about food .
19 She subsequently discovered that they had been having an affair for several months .
20 They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it .
21 They had been having dinner separately in the harem quarters , as they always did , the night that it happened .
22 They have been having a moan and a groan recently .
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