Example sentences of "[noun sg] they have be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only last april they 'd been told three hundred and fifty jobs were being axed — now comes todays announcement of more . |
| 2 | Lead miners in the northern Pennines were earning 10s ( 50p ) a week by 1797 and 11s 6d ( 57½p ) by 1815 , whereas before the war they had been earning 7s 6d ( 37½p ) ; a money-wage increase of around 50 per cent over the war years seems indicated , implying a real-wage fall of about 10 per cent . |
| 3 | ‘ All Friday night they 'd been showing Sheedy free kicks on the box . |
| 4 | DETECTIVES investigating an alleged attack on two prisoners found unconscious in their cell were yesterday working on the theory they had been fighting each other . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By Claire 's watch they have been waiting eleven minutes . |
| 7 | Many local authorities have had their budgets cut by reductions in central government They 've been given better education and higher expectations , but no future . |
| 8 | Erm and people had been paying insurance i it changed then cos some of the farmers could go on their pension they 'd been paying this new scheme you see . |
| 9 | When the cheeses came from the farm they had been taken fresh from the moulds . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So what they 've done is they 've picked a way of doing but they kept chopping and changing the way they 've been doing that all the time . |
| 12 | The following table shows how the repayment period varied for each of the four main samples , once people knew all the cost information , depending on what order they had been shown each set of cost figures . |
| 13 | What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know . |
| 14 | It was not the first time they had been told this . |
| 15 | And quite apart from the general interest they 've been fetching high prices . |