Example sentences of "they have been [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some tenants to whom this happens every few months said they 'd been told that next time they 'd have to sort it out themselves . |
| 2 | They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so . |
| 3 | But they 've they 've been doing that since er last century . |
| 4 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 5 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 6 | So what they 've done is they 've picked a way of doing but they kept chopping and changing the way they 've been doing that all the time . |
| 7 | they 've been doing that anyway . |
| 8 | They started to especially trainee managers , spending periods of time in the smaller branch , and they 've got to get on with that concern , but I think there are benefits since they 've been doing that . |
| 9 | I know they 've been doing that for ages . |
| 10 | Because they had been told that research shows that the teaching of grammar restricts the imagination , imposing a strait-jacket of conventions , they did not realise that it all depends on what kind of grammar is taught and in what contexts . |
| 11 | Handsome , smiling and smartly suited , he was an immediate hit , all the more so when their mother told them that they had been married that morning . |
| 12 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 13 | But they have been saying that for 20 years . |
| 14 | It is what people do with them after they have been issued that 's the problem . |
| 15 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |