Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they 've [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
| 2 | Well they are anyway cos they 've been doing the test at eleven ! |
| 3 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 4 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 5 | The sextuplets are seven today and they 've been celebrating with cakes , presents and party games . |
| 6 | Even though they 've been squandering our money now . |
| 7 | They have come in for quite a bit of stick , particularly when they 've been dealing with rape cases . |
| 8 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |