Example sentences of "[noun sg] that they [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 2 | The defendants also ran a wire service and it was found by the judge that they had been obtaining information from a subscriber to the plaintiff 's service for republication by them . |
| 3 | Is actually to terrify the p poor and to drive them in into a s an under and this is part of their philosophy that they 've been following since nineteen seventy nine under Mrs Thatcher . |
| 4 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 5 | The idea of them having to bring fortnightly evidence that they have been looking for work when in the majority of cases they are not even permitted onto premises to ask for a job suggests an obvious indifference on the part of the policy makers . |
| 6 | Lisa and Phoebe shared the painful knowledge that they had been conning themselves as well as their men . |
| 7 | We enter the area that they had been defending and everything shows that the Germans have pulled out in a hurry . |
| 8 | He had a feeling that they 'd been waiting right from the start of the trip . |
| 9 | Protected from prosecution by an amnesty law of 1978 , the military opposed any such investigation but their claim that they had been fighting a war against left-wing subversion became increasingly untenable with the discovery of mass graves containing the bodies of their political opponents and the disclosure of how they had indulged in corrupt financial practices while in power , including the payment of US$3,000,000 to Pinochet 's son [ see pp. 37528-29 ; 37852-53 ; 37958 ] . |
| 10 | The Government are supposed to support small firms , but is not the reality that they have been betraying them ? |
| 11 | Yes sir he told me that er would know because they ha had been together in prison and that he also had information that they had been planning armed robberies together . |
| 12 | And they are losing their tradition of the food that they have been getting from Eastern Europe . |
| 13 | I had the idea that they had been quarrelling and had n't quite made it up . |
| 14 | We should take them at their word and hold them to it , rather than resign ourselves to the judgment that they have been lying . |
| 15 | Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united . |
| 16 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |