Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [noun pl] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 2 | ‘ People have suggested to me that changes have been coming more rapidly than they would like but that brings me back to the feeling that people intrinsically do n't like change . |
| 3 | The warriors have been with them because lions have been seen in the area where they were grazing . |
| 4 | No special secrecy was attached to the cruiser — indeed , Khrushchev told the disconcerted Admiralty that he would be glad to sell it to them because cruisers had been out-dated by missiles . |
| 5 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 6 | Further back sat a heavy wooden table , and on it she found a note from the building 's owner , informing her that provisions had been left in the fridge , that there was an ample supply of coal and logs in the shed outside , and wishing her ‘ good snow and happy skiing ’ . |
| 7 | Among them was John Ingram , who said that he and others had been drinking with Drew at 1.35pm that lunchtime , and that Drew had mentioned going to Cross Street to get a paper . |
| 8 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend accept that the House is united in abhorring war crimes — and no doubt there were many — but that the House will want to consider early-day motion 275 which draws attention to some articles in the Evening Standard and elsewhere which remind us that mistakes have been made ? |