Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] they [verb] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before . |
| 3 | They are descended from a common ancestress through female links only and they have been nurtured on food which derives from a common parcel of land . |
| 4 | No they 're not but they 've been getting on all right really . |
| 5 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 6 | The sextuplets are seven today and they 've been celebrating with cakes , presents and party games . |
| 7 | Erm , Joan and Sheila very kindly volunteered to wash all the curtains in here and they 've been done . |
| 8 | He says over the last few years there 've been a number of applications by local people who live and work in the area and want to stay here and they 've been refused permission to build on their own land for single dwellings and we think it would be terribly unfair if Redlands could come in and build a whole new estate , doubling the size of the village . |
| 9 | These are good pillows here but they 've been mapped as intrusives . ’ |
| 10 | The qualities of beef and dairy types of Shorthorn have been appreciated worldwide and they have been used extensively in creating new breeds or improving existing ones and native types . |