Example sentences of "they have been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Each of them has been transformed into a breathtaking beauty !
2 Efforts to help them have been hampered by a crippling shortage of transport and medicine .
3 The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW
4 They 'd been stored in a hangar which was totally destroyed .
5 But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that .
6 The roadshow now belongs to the mythology of the miners , the leadership had made the effort , they 'd gone on the road , and they 'd been rewarded by a clutch of standing ovations .
7 But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’
8 and erm as usual this was erm , this created a bit of controversy because erm temporary staff , according to the reading of the minute , did n't er , were n't entitled to war bonus because erm , they 'd been appointed at a certain salary and er that was that and er , but in the end we managed to get our war bonus as well so we were on equal pegging with the , with the other staff .
9 ‘ They all looked as though they 'd been written at a different time from the rest of the notes on the cards .
10 They 'd been married in a church she 'd always gone to as a child and afterwards there was a reception in the Mansfield Hotel , near by and convenient , and then she and Gordon had gone to Cumberland .
11 His jeans looked as if they 'd been slashed with a knife .
12 They 'd been heading for a festival in Chipping Sodbury , but had been diverted by police .
13 The solitude and the almost palpable darkness combined to create the feeling that they 'd been draped in a blanket .
14 The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage .
15 They 'd been waiting for a council house for 5 years .
16 Of course not , they 've been elected for a period , they serve to the end of that period , whether they 're made redundant or not , so they go on for the four year term .
17 he feels they 've been treated in a shabby way .
18 It 's when the family come in and they 've been prepared by a doctor whose speciality it is , and they have lists of things that they have witnessed you do , that have embarrassed and humiliated them .
19 All we would like to do in the lab is make that same compound in a different way , and many of the compounds which are used are the same as those found in nature , the only difference is they 've been prepared in a test tube instead of being prepared in a plant .
20 You see at Banbury School our governing body erm has expressed itself clearly as against the tertiary education proposals as they were first put forward , and I am very pleased to have heard during the debate that they 've been amended as a result of quite a lot as a result of the discussion that has gone on .
21 If someone knows they 've been contaminated by a needle or a knife , for instance , then I think the testing certainly is available . ’
22 They 've been engaged for a year , and it was decided the wedding could take place during August , when there is just routine spraying and pruning to be done , well before the vendange itself , when I can not do without him . ’
23 Aggie 's friend knows about him , but , as he said , they ca n't pin anything on to him ; they 've been tryin' for a long time .
24 Brighter are so deeply drippy that they make Blueboy look like the English Metallica , Brighter sound like they 've been locked in a bedroom for the past six years and are still trying to come up with that ‘ C86 ’ audition tape .
25 They claim they 've been taken for a ride .
26 But this week they 've been confronted by a whole host of vegetarian dishes .
27 When they 've been promoted to a high ranking job .
28 The Cult only ever had one truly great riff of their own — ‘ She Sells Sanctuary ’ — but on ‘ Electric ’ and ‘ Sonic Temple ’ they at least had the intelligence to plunder the repertoires of The Stones and Zeppelin , here , they sound like they 've been dipping into a library of unreleased Uriah Heep doodlings … uninspired , to say the least .
29 Sorry if it 's the first thing you see in the morning , still it 's not everyone who can say they 've been sleeping with a Jesuit .
30 Maybe just some Iranian hotheads getting upset because they think they 've been subjected to a con trick by the arms dealers .
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