Example sentences of "and they have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Polling 's up by 10 per cent in parts and they 've been queuing , yes , queuing in St Ives , ’ Mr Archer revealed . |
| 2 | Aunt Elena was Mother 's room-mate at school in Switzerland and they 've been best friends ever since . |
| 3 | And they 've been making it for right on four years now , backed by the colourful and wily One Little Indian label , earning themselves Single Of The Week round here pretty much every time they put one out , and doing quite nicely in end-of-year writers ' charts too . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years . |
| 5 | It 's when the family come in and they 've been prepared by a doctor whose speciality it is , and they have lists of things that they have witnessed you do , that have embarrassed and humiliated them . |
| 6 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 7 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 8 | Now we 've actually found seventy thousand pounds worth of savings we have n't made anybody redundant and we 've actually quite clearly taken in that seventy thousand pounds within our overall budget past decisions has had to be taken and they 've been taken as I said earlier hopefully when the financial climate gets better we perhaps we 'll be able to other things all or were revert back to things that we we do wish to do because the the financial restraints on us . |
| 9 | Because they 're a year younger than I am , two years younger and they 've been registered now for six , seven , eight , or nine years . |
| 10 | Yeah it 's more difficult to keep up with others if they if they 're older and they 've been learning this stuff for a lot longer |
| 11 | They have been extremely efficient and effective in carrying out their onerous tasks , and they 've been of enormous assistance in ensuring the smooth running of this enquiry , and indeed it has run smoothly . |
| 12 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 13 | Byron was my hero and they 've been slogging it out ever since . |
| 14 | ‘ We lease the land out to the forestry people , and they 've been doing a helicopter survey . ’ |
| 15 | Anyway , the Wild Wood is seething with them , and in its endless darkness the beasties multiply ; they 've no enemies to control them , and they 've been at it for centuries ! |
| 16 | The way we see it , they both did a runner and they 've been in hiding ever since . ’ |
| 17 | And they 've been doing it eighteen months longer than us . |
| 18 | And I was hoping to cos I can quote you instances where people have trained in the health service , and they 've been told nineteen seventy four seventy five , when you complete your training , you 're not guaranteed a job in this health authority . |
| 19 | And they 've been trendy the last two or three seasons , they 've been back with the classics have n't they ? |
| 20 | And they 've been friends long enough to take each other for granted , turn up when they feel like it , and shut up when they 're busy . |
| 21 | Peop they 're like they 're like umbrellas that need unfolding and people say oh they 'll spread out and they 'll develop foliage well there 're similar sorts of trees on Castlegate and they 've been there about three years they 've done nothing in fact they 're dying . |
| 22 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 23 | Well they 've been very direct and they 've been having to make me think a lot about what I 'm doing . |
| 24 | I have good teeth and they 've been known to blind at five yards in strong sunlight . |
| 25 | They 've been retyped and they 've been called erm , procedures . |
| 26 | There was one though on the Antique Road Show where there 's erm er girl brought in a kettle and they 've been using it just every day and it was pottery and it was actually to buy her her own house . |
| 27 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 28 | Here you go , and they 've been slightly redone by Ian be for the accountants you know . |
| 29 | Erm , and they 've been told that we might not be making any appointment at all ? |
| 30 | We went to the er B M A or the G M C I 'm not quite sure which and asked if we could could approach er doctors for this and they 've been snapping our hands off ever since . |