Example sentences of "and they 've be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years . |
| 2 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor . |
| 5 | Selling , and they 've been listening already . |
| 6 | Yeah and they 've been given out ? |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Two men have been killed by undercover troops in Northern Ireland today , and they 've been named as top I R A hit man and former Sinn Fein coun , and a former Sinn Fein councillor . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They 've been retyped and they 've been called erm , procedures . |
| 11 | They 've not said a word on the rest of the industry and in fact wo n't say it and they 've been pressed very very hard on what the future entails for the rest of the coal field . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Erm , Joan and Sheila very kindly volunteered to wash all the curtains in here and they 've been done . |
| 14 | ‘ Polling 's up by 10 per cent in parts and they 've been queuing , yes , queuing in St Ives , ’ Mr Archer revealed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They 've bought up two hundred thousand tonnes of the crop … and they 've been asked to fork out for another two hundred fifty thousand tonnes . |
| 17 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 18 | And and they 've been waiting since for it to happen . |
| 19 | Yes there 's been many cases where lesbian and gay couples have left a gay bar , have given each other a goodnight kiss at a bus stop or at a tube station or in the street and they 've been arrested under public decency laws and dragged through the courts and fined up to £200 . |
| 20 | I have good teeth and they 've been known to blind at five yards in strong sunlight . |
| 21 | The sextuplets are seven today and they 've been celebrating with cakes , presents and party games . |
| 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 | money for light and they 've been having to keep her pension and like giving her so much at a time because it 's been going missing with all the money ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Erm , you know , if they 're sitting there in water and they 've been peeled and they 're ready to cook , they wo n't be cooked until they 're needed to be cooked , you know . |
| 27 | erm a sister who sends out wonderful letters and they 've been published , and my husband he calls , you know , whenever he can . |
| 28 | But no charges have been brought and they 've been released on police bail . |
| 29 | No charges have been brought , and they 've been released on police bail . |
| 30 | 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 . |