Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later generations of women have been catching up with their male contemporaries as far as the acquisition of paper qualifications is concerned . |
| 2 | In contrast , in the European-style cities of east and central Africa such as Nairobi , Lusaka and Harare , the informals have frequently been hounded out of their preferred locations . |
| 3 | That 's it , my short movie is complete , and , once the actors and backgrounds have been sorted out in their respective editors , it only takes a matter of ten minutes to assemble the final movie . |
| 4 | Another notable seizure made by Vigilant was as a result of an operation in 1969 , initiated by the Investigation Branch who had been tipped off by their Dutch colleagues that a suspected smuggling vessel had left Flushing bound for the Kent coast . |
| 5 | Two had been voted out of their top party positions by their district branches and the other two stepped down after pressure from the Central Committee . |
| 6 | It is as though , in literary terms , the peasant world , defined by neo-realism , and the disembodied , technocratic environments of the neo-avant-garde had been lifted out of their historical context and plastered together in a sharply disjunctive collage . |
| 7 | The troglodytic Soviets have been driven back into their frozen potholes : the camp doctor steadies his monocle and reaches for his mustiest text-book . |
| 8 | Other additions to make the supplement obsolete come mainly from the deep south , where Geoff Hornby and Suzi Sammut have been cruising around on their Luxury Liner ( E3 5c ) , which is a variant on their own Crinoid Cruise . |
| 9 | A book about the children of the war , displaced children , children who had not been brought up by their natural parents or in their home countries . |
| 10 | Manchester , Liverpool do n't get on very well and there was a drugs problem , a very bad drugs problem er which had been brought in from their normal way of life outside . |
| 11 | Most of the puppets looked rough-hewn and primitive , but two were utterly grotesque , as plastic dolls heads , complete with eyelashes and floppy yellow curls , had been fixed on to their stick-like bodies . |
| 12 | Usually they were ordinary cooking herbs that had been taken out of their original packaging , so visitors are advised to any herbs in their original jars or boxes . |
| 13 | Only when Zimbabwean Peter Ndlovu , Coventry 's exciting striker who had been kept out by their recent resurgence in form , came on as substitute after the break was there occasional menace . |
| 14 | To Agassiz , who became the most eminent anti Darwinian in the USA , these indicated that they were separate creations : animal populations had been created in about their present numbers and in their present locations . |
| 15 | The scenes on pottery described above belong to a very small minority , but they have been singled out for their outstanding interest and significance in the study of religious practices . |