Example sentences of "they 've [be] [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Bateman of Rentokil says there 's a reason for their bad behaviour — they 've been getting drunk on rotten fruit . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's probably sour grapes after they 've been beaten 4-2 by nine men . |
| 3 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 4 | One in six patients in hospital in Britain are there because they 've been made ill by doctors . |
| 5 | They 've been planning this for months . |
| 6 | They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so . |
| 7 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 8 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 9 | I know they 've been doing that for ages . |
| 10 | But they 've they 've been doing that since er last century . |