Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb base] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not on a degree course but at the Cultural Centre for Foreigners where they 've been going since last September . ’ |
| 2 | Where where they 've been bombing it |
| 3 | Up to 400 Cuban military advisers are reported to be at fortified bases in northern Panama , where they have been training the the militia of the Dignity Battalions , the Washington Times said yesterday . |
| 4 | A GROUP of British students has recently returned from a trip to South America , where they have been researching into the flora and fauna of the Colombian Amazon basin . |
| 5 | Er , although they 've been moving around with me , but er they did very well in their studies in the end . |
| 6 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 7 | During the past decade the poverty stricken countries of the South have been paying far more money to the rich North than they have been receiving in new money . |
| 8 | But after a four month lay-off the people who have to open them can get rather out of practice , so they 've been sharpening their skills against each other . |
| 9 | PS : I bought ten copies to send to friends at home and abroad , so they have been joining in the fun from Runcorn , to Malta . |
| 10 | You see even when they tell the truth , if they 've been telling lies for a long time , even if they , when they tell the truth you do n't believe them |
| 11 | Sometimes my tears are so hot they feel as if they 've been baking inside me , sometimes they feel bigger and wetter , sometimes rather lighter and not so salty . |
| 12 | If they 've been boozing , you could end up with erm enough blood |
| 13 | Well as long as you do n't mind the high mileage cars but if they 've been going up and down the motorway all the time |
| 14 | If they 've been changing the pipes or digging them up or something they often flush it through with a load of chlorine , the water of or b Boil it erm As water get 's hotter , and something like sugar , would you get would you find , Let's say you get a cup of cold water and you try and dissolve as much sugar as you can in it , and then you try hot water , try disolv |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | However , the children of your unmarried partner can not inherit from you unless you adopt them or make a will even if they have been living as a family with you both . |
| 17 | if they have been sniffing for so e time , arrange a health check |
| 18 | When we have breakfast , on the 8th floor , we can look down on the river , and watch all the river traffic , including large passenger vessels , big merchant ships belching smoke , strings of wooden barges , and big and small old-fashioned junks , which look as if they have been sailing for a 100 years at least . |
| 19 | Some elderly people suffer from iron deficiency due to a very slight , and sometimes unrecognisable , blood loss from such conditions as piles , diverticulitis , hiatus hernia — and occasionally bleeding from the stomach , if they have been taking aspirin for rheumatism daily for long periods , and this may cause anaemia . |
| 20 | If they have been taking a prescribed drug this is likely to have been methadone , and if the daily dose can be established this can be prescribed . |
| 21 | Bankers retaliate by pointing out that accountants ' advice is invariably based on historic record rather than future possibility , and that it is impossible for them to give impartial advice if they have been auditing their clients ' books over the past years . |
| 22 | Most travellers will explain , like the writer and traveller Paul Theroux , that unless the journey has been difficult they do not feel as if they have been travelling . |
| 23 | Women are particularly vulnerable to diseases such as arthritis , osteoporosis ( brittle-bone disease ) and heart attacks in their middle years if they have been leading a sedentary life , sitting slumped in front of the television , losing muscle tone and even bone mass . |
| 24 | I says , he wo n't cos they 've been feeding him . |
| 25 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 26 | Yes cos they 've been starting |
| 27 | Yeah well th cos they 've been waiting up there on the thing and they 've land or they 've just been circ |
| 28 | Well they are anyway cos they 've been doing the test at eleven ! |
| 29 | It is for this reason that most doctors will not generally accept that couples have a fertility problem until they have been trying to conceive for at the very least a year . |
| 30 | The Cult only ever had one truly great riff of their own — ‘ She Sells Sanctuary ’ — but on ‘ Electric ’ and ‘ Sonic Temple ’ they at least had the intelligence to plunder the repertoires of The Stones and Zeppelin , here , they sound like they 've been dipping into a library of unreleased Uriah Heep doodlings … uninspired , to say the least . |