Example sentences of "they have [adv] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd both been riding clouds that morning , now this . |
| 2 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 3 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 4 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 5 | ‘ He told me I had no right to inflict pain on those girls , because they 'd simply been telling the truth . ’ |
| 6 | No , they was living together they 'd only been living there a fortnight ! |
| 7 | They 'd all been amusing enough , in their way . |
| 8 | Their painted eyes seemed to be full of a malignant resentment , as if they 'd once been living horses that had been turned to wood by an enchantment . |
| 9 | They 'd origionaly been staying at the hotel Mediteran , but then moved to a villa . |
| 10 | Whilst they are very good at what they do , they 've also been riding the same horse for a very long time and the old nag 's starting to show signs of wear . |
| 11 | They 've also been recycling vinyl string pouches and have even decided to stop shining up their bronze strings by washing them in acid — still a common procedure for most string manufacturers . |
| 12 | They 've just been terrorizing us and taking our money to protect us from themselves ! ’ |
| 13 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 14 | They 've not been making money for years though |
| 15 | Particularly Old Speckled Hen could survive ; they 've only been brewing it there in its present form for 2 years and it would be easy for us to transfer that production to their specifications using Morland 's yeast . |
| 16 | Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so |
| 17 | Department 's tend , eh , the actual service department are very much what I would call practitioner lead , you 've got just people there doing there job and there 've been doing there job for years , and that 's you know , there not , the very rare thing today , erm , thinking of policy sense about the way in which they could change that service , you just get on and do what they 've always been doing . |
| 18 | They 've all been listening to the trainer . |
| 19 | ‘ They 've all been thinking , ’ he said . |
| 20 | They 've all been waiting for more than 2 years for plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 21 | They had n't been hunting it . |
| 22 | Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special . |
| 23 | They had n't been working on the slate face , they had n't worked any slate , but they were doing all right on the tables , you know on the sawing the slate up for the others . |
| 24 | Much of the technology used in the Macintosh came via Xerox 's Palo Alto Research Centre where they had also been investigating page printing technology and methods of transferring complex graphics between screens and the printed page . |
| 25 | They had also been floating in a jar of pickle in the curiobiological museum down in the cellars of Unseen University , since live salamanders were extinct around the Circle Sea . |
| 26 | They had lain dormant for some years after she had left the cottage , but he knew now they had simply been growing in the warm darkness of his being where love bred … |
| 27 | They had clearly been leading up to this all week . |
| 28 | The defendants admitted that they had both been drinking heavily on the night of the offences . |
| 29 | They had both been attending a seminar on judicial sentencing at a northern university , Berowne to open it formally with a brief speech , Dalgliesh to represent the police interest ; and they had travelled by rail in the same first class compartment . |
| 30 | To some degree they had already been catering for children with special needs . |