Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] be [verb] [det] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 DETECTIVES investigating an alleged attack on two prisoners found unconscious in their cell were yesterday working on the theory they had been fighting each other .
2 Erm and people had been paying insurance i it changed then cos some of the farmers could go on their pension they 'd been paying this new scheme you see .
3 Asylum Aid , which represents immigrants who 're seeking refuge in Britain , says the last thing they need is to spend more time behind bars .
4 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 .
5 The following table shows how the repayment period varied for each of the four main samples , once people knew all the cost information , depending on what order they had been shown each set of cost figures .
6 What kind of people d' you think I the first year psychology students they 've been given some sexual orientation ?
7 What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know .
8 It was not the first time they had been told this .
  Next page