Example sentences of "they have been [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second edition of this guide to medicines for older people and those who help care for them has been published by Age Concern England . |
| 2 | I managed four , but they tasted like they 'd been pickled in piss . ’ |
| 3 | Maybe they 'd been meeting in secret for a while . |
| 4 | They were there only because they 'd been stopped at gunpoint from going any farther — by the Turkish army , a key NATO ally of the US and Britain . |
| 5 | Though his features looked as if they 'd been carved from stone , in the depths of his gaze something stirred . |
| 6 | They 'd been issued with Sterling by Lloyds Bank . |
| 7 | He 'd lost weight , his eyes were staring and red as if they 'd been rolled in grit , and his clothes hung on him like a scarecrow 's ; it was almost as if , in the course of the past few weeks , he 'd been drained of the zest and the energy and the sense of confidence that she 'd steadily been picking up . |
| 8 | They 'd been baptized in water as we 've already read , and yet nobody had received the Holy Spirit . |
| 9 | In 1966 the Beatles had given up touring , a practice that had consumed their lives ever since they 'd been catapulted into celebrity in 1963 . |
| 10 | Since they were erected four months ago , at a cost of ten thousand pounds , they 've been daubed with paint and stuffed with litter . |
| 11 | They 've bought up two hundred thousand tonnes of the crop … and they 've been asked to fork out for another two hundred fifty thousand tonnes . |
| 12 | But erm , that 's the idea , you see , that these kids , er well , you know , they may be delinquent , and do lots of nasty things , but it 's only the way they 've been treated by society . |
| 13 | That as they 've been made redundant , as they 've been victimized for trade union activity possibly , we then as a union decide that they can not stand for office ? |
| 14 | They 've been withdrawn from sale , but its feared other mowers with similar cabling could still be available in shops around Britain . |
| 15 | Because they 've been split between school , between young classes , my daughter 's been in with the eight year olds . |
| 16 | They do n't feel they 've been robbed of anonymity . |
| 17 | They 've been injected with plutonium in an effort to find out exactly how the radioactive substance affects people . |
| 18 | They 've been injected with plutonium in an effort to find out exactly how the radioactive substance affects people . |
| 19 | They 've also blocked off the railway line , and British drivers say they 've been threatened at knife point . |
| 20 | ‘ They 've been feeding on waste from the labs . |
| 21 | They have come in for quite a bit of stick , particularly when they 've been dealing with rape cases . |
| 22 | Two men have been killed by undercover troops in Northern Ireland today , and they 've been named as top I R A hit man and former Sinn Fein coun , and a former Sinn Fein councillor . |
| 23 | They 've been cut with gas axe . |
| 24 | N nowadays I hear erm or the lads who have been they go out They 've been working with contractor and they say how different it is when your mother was alive , everybody who came here they they used to join us for their dinner . |
| 25 | They 've been banned from sale in Oxfordshire , but hundreds are believed to be in circulation across the country . |
| 26 | They 've been designed by sculptor John Buckley . |
| 27 | I 'm a teacher myself and if my children come home and tell me things they 've been doing in maths which might seem very perplexing to somebody who knows about modern maths , I understand the educational reason for them doing so . |
| 28 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 29 | If learners can see and recognise the language they 've been studying in use in realistic situations this has two benefits : |
| 30 | They had never been observant Jews ; they had been steeped in German , not Jewish , culture and identified with it . |