Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] they [verb] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For generations they have been led to believe that Britain and America secretly pull the strings in their country . |
| 2 | But other Jews … the ones who have suffered like your zeide … for centuries they have been praying ‘ To next year in Jerusalem ’ and meaning it . |
| 3 | For months they had been trying with divets and tackle to hoist the appropriate two-ton stone upright and into its hole . |
| 4 | Shortly after lunch they had been reduced to 57 for eight . |
| 5 | But of course they had been drunk too , worse , most of them far worse than herself — perhaps they had forgotten she was ever with them . |
| 6 | The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) . |
| 7 | Oh I do , I do and my mates is on er , of course they 've been brought up with the metric system you see and he 's |
| 8 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 9 | But they can count the number of times they 've been to see Elvis the Musical ; 38 to date and it will be forty by the end of the week . |
| 10 | They choose the correct direction with increasing accuracy as the number of trials ( the number of times they have been allowed to run through the maze ) increases . |
| 11 | But er unfortunately those on the ground who have shown their skill at wrecking anything that does n't suit their purpose with the support of the Labour group , those on the ground will still be there and I do n't believe that er giving the director of education the executive powers is going to stop them continuing to take the sort of action they 've been taking . |
| 12 | Nell guessed from the centrifuges and freezers what type of work they had been designed for . |
| 13 | For a number of years they have been producing the yachts in their range in both standard and Master versions , the latter being more luxuriously appointed and intended for private ownership . |
| 14 | In general , most people reckon that the cost of credit they have been using is more or less as they had planned . |
| 15 | The ten plough lands reduced to six and by the time of Domesday they had been reduced to two and a half and Pannage for hogs reduced to wood for five hogs . |
| 16 | I pushed by a couple of drunks who had just appeared bearing the same bottle of Hirondelle they 'd been using to get into parties all year and made my way upstairs . |
| 17 | A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for . |
| 18 | Having accepted the ground rules , all the Grants appreciated and relished a structure that allowed a degree of communication they had been missing for years . |
| 19 | Considering the amount of pressure they had been exerting , there should , Briant felt , be a different atmosphere about them . |
| 20 | In view of his assessment of the damage that they are likely to cause to employment in this country , will he say under which article of the treaty of Rome they have been proposed ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The broad effect of the Act was to enable societies to offer the extended range of services they had been lobbying for . |
| 23 | Several cast sheep were found , lying on their backs while their legs kicked the air helplessly , but after Silas had grabbed their thick wool and jerked them to their feet they also ran , or staggered away , depending upon the length of time they had been cast . |
| 24 | The length of time they have been waiting for a house or factors such as overcrowding and damp are far more important than marital status , Mrs Smith said . |
| 25 | This council needs to take seriously crime prevention and crime detection and most of all fear of crime , and that 's why it 's become part of the policy committee 's concern , and I think that 's with the police committee 's agreement , for years they 've been trying to tell us to get involved in crime prevention , and from next year we 're going to do that . |
| 26 | For years they have been receiving the same information in both printout and statement form — the Bank will benefit to the tune of £10,000 in tangible savings and £71,000 in productivity savings per annum . |
| 27 | For years they have been making effectively equity investments in developer traders at debt margins . |
| 28 | It is recognised that there is no rigid division between these categories ( the library and photographic services are used both internally and externally , for example ) , but for convenience they have been dealt with separately in this Report . |
| 29 | Thirty two thousand would-be undergraduates are checking their applications to university in case they 've been lost because of a computer fault . |
| 30 | If you use latex barriers , remember to rinse them first in case they have been treated with talc , which could irritate the vulva . |