Example sentences of "[adv] they have be [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I 'd like you to do , is to try and put into words , what the main problems are at the moment , when they occur , where they occur , and how long they 've been going on for ’ . |
| 2 | In fact ever since the pair of them started going out together they 've been going on about having to find poor old Jenny a new man . |
| 3 | Well me Auntie Jean and me Mum got passed once , like they 'd been going down and scrubbing it from side at bath and everything . |
| 4 | Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At least they 've been shouting out . |