Example sentences of "they have been [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 'd been commissioned both of them . |
| 2 | They 'd been sitting still for too long . |
| 3 | Peter Bateman of Rentokil says there 's a reason for their bad behaviour — they 've been getting drunk on rotten fruit . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's probably sour grapes after they 've been beaten 4-2 by nine men . |
| 5 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 6 | One in six patients in hospital in Britain are there because they 've been made ill by doctors . |
| 7 | They 've been planning this for months . |
| 8 | They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so . |
| 9 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 10 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 11 | I know they 've been doing that for ages . |
| 12 | But they 've they 've been doing that since er last century . |
| 13 | They had been piled high on his desk until the day it fell through the floor because of all the weight . |
| 14 | Mair interviewed a clutch of former BR executives who claimed they had been made redundant for pressing their inquiries too closely , and the understandably defensive chairman of British Rail 's Parcels Board , Gordon Pettitt , who admitted that things had gone wrong but could n't see what all the fuss was about . |
| 15 | These were not new problems , though they had been made worse by the rapid growth of population , industry and cities . |
| 16 | Reasonably enough , there were those on the list who were angry because they had been made liable to investigation by the tax authorities . |
| 17 | By the spring of 1949 , the Boards were triumphantly arguing that they had been proved right in that the differential charge had had no effect on consumption and merely provoked public discontent . |
| 18 | A Christian Science couple in Boston were sentenced to 10 years ' probation on July 6 after they had been found guilty of the manslaughter of their two-year-old son in 1986 . |
| 19 | They had been found guilty of five murders , having entered a house of some neighbouring villagers earlier in the month and clubbed to death five members of one family . |
| 20 | When the cheeses came from the farm they had been taken fresh from the moulds . |
| 21 | Thirteen patients were referred as they had been considered unsuitable for conventional cholecystectomy on account of various coexistent medical diseases ( complex group , table I ) , and 12 patients were referred as they had requested minimally invasive treatment for their gall bladder disease or specifically wished their gall bladder to be preserved ( non-complex group , table II ) . |
| 22 | Ever since that night when , with their father away inspecting a distant building site , they had been left alone in the house for the first time , and the ‘ broth ’ had decided to wreak mayhem . |
| 23 | Like Gaiety Girls they had been judged worthy of a separate identity . |
| 24 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 25 | They have been made possible in consumer markets by developments ( i ) in the study of demographics and statistics ; and ( ii ) in Information Technology applications . |
| 26 | When the experience itself arrives , the hazards will be attenuated because they have been made familiar by being anticipated , and the individuals will already have been set on the path of healthy coping responses . |
| 27 | They have been made homeless with many put in camps all as part of what Serbs call Ethnic cleansing . |
| 28 | They have been doing this in Suffolk for almost 110 years , comforting the sick and lonely , and relieving the worries of the anxious and elderly . |
| 29 | But they have been saying that for 20 years . |
| 30 | But BBC officials are waking up to the fact that , while they have been allocated both of Britain 's channels for high-power satellite broadcasts , the kind that could be received direct into people 's homes , they have no monopoly on low-power transmissions from satellites , the kind that could be picked up by central receiving stations — and transmitted via cable to homes . |