Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] they have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 2 | Although I have great respect for W. 's consultant and for the dedication of the staff , it seems to me that they have been manoeuvred into a position from which a change is necessary , even if it is a change that carries the risk of interpretation by W. as ‘ yet another adult rejection and failure . ’ |
| 3 | Cllr Murphy told The Scotsman : ‘ Councillors have told me that they have been put under pressure when short-leeting . ’ |
| 4 | Rounding up the elephants and trying to count them was a hellish job , much more difficult than anyone had foreseen because of the vast area , the confusing vegetation and terrain , and the impossibility of labelling the beasts or keeping track of them once they had been found and counted once . |
| 5 | For this reason , it is often much more effective to press the different parts of the spray individually and then reconstruct them once they have been pressed . |
| 6 | Multiple choices are learned and any one of them can be followed — as for example incest versus outbreeding — but there is an innate predisposition to learn certain ones in preference to others , or else to choose them once they have been acquired . |
| 7 | As they approached the castle of Ballingolin , a figure on the south tower raised a hand to indicate to them that they had been seen and recognized . |
| 8 | Handsome , smiling and smartly suited , he was an immediate hit , all the more so when their mother told them that they had been married that morning . |
| 9 | There is a lot of work ahead to check with other forces on what 's been stolen.The police will contact people who 've reported antiques stolen to tell them if they 've been recovered . |
| 10 | Did you not yourself say that our love must be holy ? ’ or when she pointed out that his ‘ lovely poems ’ would have been less lovely if she had not pro vided ‘ the unrest and storm that made them possible ’ : ‘ Beloved I will pray with my whole strength that suffering and temptation may be taken from you as they have been taken from me and that we may gain spiritual union stronger than earthly union could ever be . ’ |
| 11 | Well , they were expensive if you had to buy them but they had been given to me , along with a pair of golf shoes , by the Italian company which supplied Jack . |
| 12 | In most cases of detinue there would be a concurrent liability in conversion based upon a demand and refusal to return but as we have seen conversion required a positive act and had never lain where the defendant once had the plaintiff 's goods but was unable to return them because they had been lost or negligently destroyed . |
| 13 | His assailants next told him that they had been given three pounds each ‘ to do you up tonight ’ by the ‘ drug squad ’ detective with whom he was already unpleasantly familiar . |
| 14 | Mr Murphy , who works for the housing department as a caretaker for a group of flats in Coatbridge and is a shop steward for the National Union of Public Employees , said at the time that he could ‘ name names ’ and that elected members had told him that they had been put under pressure when short-leeting jobs . |
| 15 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 16 | They seemed surprised and told him that they had been burning their rubber boots . |
| 17 | That was until the day of his funeral , when his fancy woman , Alice Mulcahy , through gin-inspired sorrow , told her that they had been making plans to go to America . |
| 18 | But beware — the Black Night 's ghoulish cohorts are everywhere , and rumour has it that they 've been dabbling in the dark arts … |
| 19 | It creates a sense of well-being so attractive that few can resist using it if they have been exposed to it too often . |
| 20 | They 've not said a word on the rest of the industry and in fact wo n't say it and they 've been pressed very very hard on what the future entails for the rest of the coal field . |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman asks whether we could debate them after they have been debated in the European Community , but we are talking about a long time ahead . |
| 22 | It is what people do with them after they have been issued that 's the problem . |
| 23 | Please could you ensure that cheques drawn on the above account are returned to me after they have been cashed . |
| 24 | He claimed : ‘ It concerns us that they have been enticed to take this step . ’ |