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Example sentences of "they have be [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The scenery they 'd been flashing through was spectacular , endless coconut and banana palms , glimpses of white sand and water , fluttering green against deep blue and silver .
2	Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’
3	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
4	I was afraid they 'd been carrying on . ’
5	Well me Auntie Jean and me Mum got passed once , like they 'd been going down and scrubbing it from side at bath and everything .
6	boy , boy friends before , they married them , they were n't sleep , if they 'd been sleeping around then I would of said something , then I would of said something to them ,
7	Yeah well at the end of the day I mean I I was n't there but a the facts at the end of the day were that they 'd been buggering about with that radio system which they should n't do .
8	Over the past few weeks they 'd been rubbing along fairly civilly , though not without the occasional spark flying between them .
9	Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see .
10	Er , although they 've been moving around with me , but er they did very well in their studies in the end .
11	Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down .
12	This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition .
13	Remember the the boat 's been filling with water , they 've been bailing out in desperation , after they 'd done everything that they can do they then turn round and said , Lord , do n't you care we 're gon na drown ?
14	Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly .
15	they 're talking none about the , the economy and turn up before the end of the year , this , the , the , they 've been hanging on and on and on , and er slagging one another off all the time
16	At least they 've been shouting out .
17	‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years .
18	Erm in March the top branch was erm Hugh erm interestingly enough erm in the south erm Nicholas erm was well down on recruitment , he was down minus twenty seven on his fore on his target , but was significantly up on his bus business that he brought in because they 've been focusing on er in on that .
19	They 've been knocking around since Christmas .
20	Mind you the best ones would be by er those ones they 've been selling off to the highest offer .
21	The sales force is a problem they 've been working on for awhile and could be in a position to snap off in a few months .
22	Yeah well th cos they 've been waiting up there on the thing and they 've land or they 've just been circ
23	They 've been running up and down the place doing all the good play .
24	They 've been closing down since I 've known them
25	They have no speech beyond grunts , but they 've been surviving out here . ’
26	And they 've been carrying out an exhaustive search for clues .
27	They 've been fighting out there for bloody years . ’
28	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 .
29	All the people that I 've seen trying to do it have all my sympathy , because I know what they 've been going through .
30	I know that our children by enlarge er their vocabulary does n't extend to erm what er , polysyllabic words which which might really sum up for an adult what they 've been going through , how they 've enjoyed it but what is the terrible form we had last year in seventh year , was it seven G ?