Example sentences of "[noun sg] they have [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ All Friday night they 'd been showing Sheedy free kicks on the box .
2 They are the seeds produced by the fern-like plants such as Mariopteris , but because they are difficult to link with their foliage they have been given separate names .
3 When the cheeses came from the farm they had been taken fresh from the moulds .
4 They sat on hard upright chairs in a draughty passage , and all the excitement they had been feeling drained out of them , seeping through the soles of their shoes and vanishing into the linoleum .
5 And quite apart from the general interest they 've been fetching high prices .
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