Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] work [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike says that they 've been working hard to organise the trip — and is not bothered about the risk of visiting the country . |
| 2 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
| 3 | If they had been working logically , they would have built the new on to the old stopping here . |
| 4 | They had been working together , and she had asked about the following day . |
| 5 | Now there is nothing to prevent plural continuation here ( e.g. They had been working hard for hours ) , but the incidence of such continuations was less than 5% , and continuations mostly were confined to singular references with individuals being in relatively stereotypical roles with respect to each other . |
| 6 | They have been working successfully for years and apparently preclude the necessity of fertilisers . |
| 7 | That action mainly has to be pressuring the Thames Water Utility Company to er to get its act together , and I must say that er since the last outbreak , they have been working hard at it . |