Example sentences of "[coord] they have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There was one though on the Antique Road Show where there 's erm er girl brought in a kettle and they 've been using it just every day and it was pottery and it was actually to buy her her own house . |
| 4 | The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor . |
| 5 | Selling , and they 've been listening already . |
| 6 | Yeah it 's more difficult to keep up with others if they if they 're older and they 've been learning this stuff for a lot longer |
| 7 | We went to the er B M A or the G M C I 'm not quite sure which and asked if we could could approach er doctors for this and they 've been snapping our hands off ever since . |
| 8 | ‘ Polling 's up by 10 per cent in parts and they 've been queuing , yes , queuing in St Ives , ’ Mr Archer revealed . |
| 9 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 10 | And and they 've been waiting since for it to happen . |
| 11 | The sextuplets are seven today and they 've been celebrating with cakes , presents and party games . |
| 12 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 13 | Well they 've been very direct and they 've been having to make me think a lot about what I 'm doing . |
| 14 | money for light and they 've been having to keep her pension and like giving her so much at a time because it 's been going missing with all the money ! |
| 15 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 16 | ‘ We lease the land out to the forestry people , and they 've been doing a helicopter survey . ’ |
| 17 | And they 've been doing it eighteen months longer than us . |
| 18 | And they 've been carrying out an exhaustive search for clues . |
| 19 | And they 've been making it for right on four years now , backed by the colourful and wily One Little Indian label , earning themselves Single Of The Week round here pretty much every time they put one out , and doing quite nicely in end-of-year writers ' charts too . |
| 20 | And anyway it 's in the paper in the paper this week and they 've been saying that er the outrage the residents ! |
| 21 | They had a fire at Saint Leonards and they 've been saying that really it 's been a good thing . |
| 22 | And they 've been smashing all different people 's ones . |
| 23 | Constant hum , people started from the first day and they 've been flowing through ever since with a high point at the weekend when they 've had more time to come up to London to have a look at things look at things . |
| 24 | Byron was my hero and they 've been slogging it out ever since . |
| 25 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 26 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |
| 27 | She had filched a bottle of claret from her grandfather 's stock and they had been drinking it liberally . |
| 28 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 29 | I think my parents were rather surprised at my reaction , because I was their first child and they had been following child development textbooks that said that children ought to start making social relationships at two . |
| 30 | As I said I I had been told that er he was associated with and they had been planning ar armed robberies in the past . |