Example sentences of "they 've [be] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see . |
| 2 | Er , although they 've been moving around with me , but er they did very well in their studies in the end . |
| 3 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 4 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | They 've been hunting here for 150 years . |
| 10 | Selling , and they 've been listening already . |
| 11 | Ever since TALK TALK turned their back on fame and fortune they 've been drifting ever further into their dark , ethereal musical underworld . |
| 12 | At least they 've been shouting out . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years . |
| 14 | They 've been reading too much space fiction . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They 've been knocking around since Christmas . |
| 17 | Mind you the best ones would be by er those ones they 've been selling off to the highest offer . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mike says that they 've been working hard to organise the trip — and is not bothered about the risk of visiting the country . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Yeah well th cos they 've been waiting up there on the thing and they 've land or they 've just been circ |
| 22 | And and they 've been waiting since for it to happen . |
| 23 | ‘ They 've been waiting there for ages , ’ said Gurder . |
| 24 | They 've been running up and down the place doing all the good play . |
| 25 | They 've been closing down since I 've known them |
| 26 | The Swindon success story is n't just on the field … off the field they 've been rebuilding too … the overdraft is below a million … but the world of football the town of Swindon still wonders if the County Ground could cope could afford the premier league … |
| 27 | They 've been doing so since bathing machines first appeared on Long Island in about 1794 . |
| 28 | Any nation has to learn democracy er , and it seems to me that all the people of the Soviet Union have shown over the last four or five years a lively interest in politics and considerable to participate in politics , er one of the problems is of course is that they 've been doing so , too much and in too disorganised a way , they 're going to have to get together . |
| 29 | Erm I would say that in the past the loyalist paramilitaries , apart from the obvious thing which was easy going out just and killing catholics as they 've been doing recently . |
| 30 | " But , hell , they 've been navigating safely to Aru for centuries . " |