Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | Mind you the best ones would be by er those ones they 've been selling off to the highest offer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They have been taking up to 100,000 salmon and sea-trout a year and probably many more if the truth were known . |
| 6 | 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 . |