Example sentences of "they have [been] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence . |
| 2 | Maybe they 'd been meeting in secret for a while . |
| 3 | But beware — the Black Night 's ghoulish cohorts are everywhere , and rumour has it that they 've been dabbling in the dark arts … |
| 4 | His face had an unpleasant shine to it , the kind of shine you get on the walls of places where they 've been cooking in cheap fat since for ever . |
| 5 | Yeah , they 've been advertising in the Echo |
| 6 | A resident of the North Shore will look at a wave and say , ‘ Bad weather they 've been having in Alaska ’ , or ‘ I see Siberia is in trouble again ’ . |
| 7 | I 'm a teacher myself and if my children come home and tell me things they 've been doing in maths which might seem very perplexing to somebody who knows about modern maths , I understand the educational reason for them doing so . |
| 8 | If learners can see and recognise the language they 've been studying in use in realistic situations this has two benefits : |
| 9 | ‘ They 've been arriving in scores , each delegation with one appointed English speaker ’ said an official . |
| 10 | They are the way forward now for the British mining industry erm they 've been coming in very steadily and now they are at virtually every pit in the country . |
| 11 | They 've been sitting during this meditation on her short useless history as a Socialist , they 've been sitting in the dark and now the moon rises , full and amber against a bar of cloud and Harriet 's face is bowed ; a drink at one hand ; and a cigarette droops glowing from the other . |
| 12 | The former concept had a crucial historical advantage at the birth of mechanics ; Western thinkers approaching things as materials which stay put until the craftsman or builder reaches for them , would not have started trying to measure how the inert is moved by external forces if they had been thinking in terms of inherently active ch'i . |
| 13 | The two teams arrived in the northern capital from Beijing where they had been competing in the Asian Games . |
| 14 | Furthermore , a settlement arrangement was made whereby the creditor countries could exchange on a monthly basis their accumulations of the weaker currencies ( which they had been buying in the EC exchange markets ) for some other form of reserve asset . |
| 15 | They had been drinking in the local dockyard club in the company of Maddison and his fiancee , Deborah Scott , 29 , and all four had left together . |
| 16 | All three were still dressed in what they had been wearing in the camp : corduroy trousers , khaki shirts and pullovers and big nailed boots . |
| 17 | They had been moving in a group , or trying to : actually , they had straggled widely at times . |
| 18 | A frisson of disbelief and unease passed though the male patrons as the woman they had been watching in simulated copulation on the screen materialised in the flesh before their very eyes . |
| 19 | They had been living in it for years . |
| 20 | They had been living in Athens , and bringing out a magazine , Residue . |
| 21 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 22 | He had told her about the cannabis bed a few days ago when they had been walking in the garden and her eyes had widened in shock . |
| 23 | They had been talking in low voices . |
| 24 | They had been talking in Spanish . |
| 25 | They had been paddling in tension-filled silence for some time when he spoke . |
| 26 | He had been sending in listings , even reports , on the gigs they had been running in Birmingham . |
| 27 | Although this was the exact opposite of what they had been saying in the previous year , it was consistent in suggesting that there was a conflict between leaders and members . |
| 28 | Here is a moment when the danger to the dismasted Hurrying Angel becomes apparent to the exhausted crew as the light grows and they can view the sea they had been fighting in the dark : |
| 29 | In the first year of the new tour , Len Owen , then tournament director for the Benson and Hedges tournament at Wembley , revealed that they were expecting to have to pay $500,000 in appearance money , in addition to the same amount they had been offering in prize money when they were a protected event . |
| 30 | She was worried about a pair of wild barn owls : they had been nesting in her barn for years and she knew there were young up there , but had n't seen the parent birds going in and out for several days . |