Example sentences of "boy have be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he remembered that the boy had been fiddling with them . |
| 2 | There were two versions of the film , in the violent version a small boy had been playing outside the bank and was shot in the face as the robbers made their getaway . |
| 3 | He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 4 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 5 | Your boy 's been working on it . |
| 6 | It 's not just that Mr Parnham knows the count , it 's an idea the old boy 's been floating for a while , so he tells me . |