Example sentences of "[noun sg] and they [verb] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had filched a bottle of claret from her grandfather 's stock and they had been drinking it liberally . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | The Suffolk police had begun hunting up previous owners of Wyvis Hall and they had been alerted that a Verne-Smith lived in their area . |
| 4 | Byron was my hero and they 've been slogging it out ever since . |
| 5 | I think my parents were rather surprised at my reaction , because I was their first child and they had been following child development textbooks that said that children ought to start making social relationships at two . |
| 6 | Well in that case and they 'd been stopping them for us you see and er excuse me stopping them for us and whoever decided to speak to them has had his few words and that 's it carry on . |
| 7 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
| 8 | However , the buy-in or redemption may be carried out if it is approved by shareholders in general meeting and they have been given details of the offer in the circular . |
| 9 | Constant hum , people started from the first day and they 've been flowing through ever since with a high point at the weekend when they 've had more time to come up to London to have a look at things look at things . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They are , Hemingway writes , ‘ doing coolie labor for a top wage of $45 a month and they have been put down on the Florida Keys where they ca n't make trouble . |
| 12 | And anyway it 's in the paper in the paper this week and they 've been saying that er the outrage the residents ! |
| 13 | He has set out the terms of his covenant and they have been agreed . |
| 14 | This is a firm and they 've been going for a number of years . |
| 15 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 16 | Professor Kelling used the term first for Carboniferous deposits on the Moroccan Meseta , but I have seen the same sort of thing in Jurassic carbonates on the Polish foreland and they have been described from many other horizons and areas , though not previously interpreted in this way . |
| 17 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It will be a most welcome first for Derry should they win the Sam Maguire Cup and they have been preparing for their big day with rigorous training sessions under the watchful eye of manager Eamon Coleman who this weekend will outline his strategy in secret conclave with his players . |
| 20 | ‘ My trees are kept in the garden and they have been covered with snow and frozen solid in the winter but they have all survived . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |