Example sentences of "[subord] they have be [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the boats began to leave the mouth of the River Tees , where they had been barring the way to Teesport , they claimed their eight-hour show of strength had been a success . |
| 2 | Semi-nomadic tribes live on the fringes of the notorious Empty Quarter desert , where they have been given the task by Sultan Qaboos and the World Wildlife Fund of reintroducing the rare Arabian Oryx ( antelope ) to its natural habitat . |
| 3 | Up to 400 Cuban military advisers are reported to be at fortified bases in northern Panama , where they have been training the the militia of the Dignity Battalions , the Washington Times said yesterday . |
| 4 | If they 've been changing the pipes or digging them up or something they often flush it through with a load of chlorine , the water of or b Boil it erm As water get 's hotter , and something like sugar , would you get would you find , Let's say you get a cup of cold water and you try and dissolve as much sugar as you can in it , and then you try hot water , try disolv |
| 5 | ‘ Did you want me , Myra ? ’ she asked as calmly as if they had been discussing the weather and not within an ace of making either love or war . |
| 6 | Students who are entitled to transitional relief will receive ⅕ of the relief they would have received if they had been paying the full community charge . |
| 7 | The prehistoric trees looked as if they had been felled the day before , but they were as sterile as hot bricks from a kiln and probably one hundred and thirty million years old . |
| 8 | I actually said that there were relatively few anomalies and that if they had been addressed the tax would have found favour . |
| 9 | Almost as if they had been awaiting the signal of an extra moon , they now took their prancings into a more intense phase . |
| 10 | Well they are anyway cos they 've been doing the test at eleven ! |
| 11 | The verses seem to be saying that the disciples understand because they have been given the secrets of the mystery of the kingdom but everybody else is taught in parables so that it will confuse them and prevent them coming into the kingdom . |
| 12 | Protagonists in the optical disc industry may have overlooked the fact that while they have been arguing the merits of their various platforms , hard disc storage has been growing ever larger . |
| 13 | Whilst they had been watching the protesters , a waitress had come out of The Crossed Keys hotel on the corner of the square carrying a tray of interesting-looking glasses . |
| 14 | After they had been given the coq au vin the waiter shovelled on to their plates , from a mysteriously divided dish , some wilted vegetables , and Richard recognised that tile moment had come to make his only point . |
| 15 | On one occasion after they had been to see the film Odd Man Out , thick fog prevented Bobby returning home to Blackheath . |