Example sentences of "'ve [be] [v-ing] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know they 've been writing them . |
| 2 | I 've been watching them multiply all morning . |
| 3 | We 've been watching them for weeks . ’ |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | What 's what 's the aim we 've been telling them |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been holding them for your decision . ’ |
| 7 | Well I 've visited both Cambodia itself and the camps , er first of all in the camps , the situation is appalling because there are very many people who do not want to be in those camps and are really in effect being held there against their will , and what has been extraordinary until this year , is that the people who 've been holding them there against their will have been the Phol Pot dominated so-called coalition government and on the basis of the people being in the camps , that , that , that regime has gone on to claim recognition at the United Nations ; an appalling situation . |
| 8 | ‘ And you 've been supplying them ever since ? ’ |
| 9 | I 've been watering them ! |
| 10 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 11 | I never noticed , I 've been eating them . |
| 12 | I ca n't remember if I did cos I 've been picking them up . |
| 13 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 14 | We 've been hunting them since our cave days , and for nine or ten thousand years , people as far afield as China , England and Polynesia have been keeping pigs to eat . |
| 15 | I 've been counting them since . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 17 | Aye , but I 've been chewing them buggers this last six months but it has n't worked for me |
| 18 | I said , Oh do n't bother I always I always get people ringing up saying so and so 's mother or father says or someone says you 've been teaching them and can you take me or can you take my son or daughter and it always works like that . |
| 19 | Have Walsall always played in the same colours as long as you 've been supporting them ? |
| 20 | It is really , well I 've been hanging them out because it 's , that 's such an effort , you know what the cleaner s |
| 21 | Well I 've been taking them yeah , |
| 22 | I 've been taking them all the time . |
| 23 | The way we 've been getting them right ever since 1850 . |
| 24 | Er Robert said Charlotte who 's two and a half she 's always been pretty but erm Robert said right , mother 's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I 've been getting them into bed and then I 've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want and then they 've had toast with jam on . |
| 25 | If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows : |
| 26 | They 've been making them for 30 years . |
| 27 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 28 | ‘ They 've been turning them away again , Miss Greene — in their droves … |
| 29 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 30 | I 've been spotting them all evening . |