Example sentences of "they have been [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been stored in a hangar which was totally destroyed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The solitude and the almost palpable darkness combined to create the feeling that they 'd been draped in a blanket . |
| 5 | he feels they 've been treated in a shabby way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It 'll be alright cos they 've been sealed in a plastic bag |
| 9 | Three Cabinet appointees were reported on April 1 to have rejected posts which they had been given in a transitional government appointed on March 30 . |
| 10 | Mosley 's later fascist ideas on government owed much to Lloyd George 's wartime reforms of the administrative structure , even if they had been devised in a democratic framework . |
| 11 | The answer is probably that workers come a lot cheaper in China , but the money they have saved that way could surely have been doubled in extra sales — not to mention saving on shipping costs — if they had been made in a British factory . |
| 12 | They looked as if they had been dressed in a hurry and not very suitably for a long walk on the headland , even in a warm autumn . |
| 13 | They had been moving in a group , or trying to : actually , they had straggled widely at times . |
| 14 | If they had been beaten in a fight , he would give them a good hiding and send them back out to do the job properly . |
| 15 | Those with turpentine , for instance , flew southwards if they had been trained in a loft with the smell of that compound blowing in from the north , and northwards if they had learned to smell it from the south . |
| 16 | Some of the women who were followers of Jesus had returned from the tomb where Jesus had been buried , saying that it was empty , that they had been told in a vision that Jesus had risen from the dead . |
| 17 | Later that evening they had been sitting in a restaurant and Maggie had looked at Tom and said , her delicate face and long neck almost visibly aquiver with pleasure , |
| 18 | They have been arranged in a Western home by the Japanese wife of Balthus , the great French painter . |
| 19 | Further improvements in graphics handling include the ability to manipulate both TIFF and paint images after they have been placed in a publication . |
| 20 | They have been separated in a pair of somatic cell hybrids ( TG3 and TK2 ; 22 ) , each of which carries one of the reciprocal translocation chromosomes . |
| 21 | A strike rate of just over one goal every two games is exceptional by any standards , even more so considering they have been scored in a struggling team . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ We have had a string of complaints about rats from the allotments and they have been kept in a very poor condition . ’ |
| 23 | It is asking readers to say if they have been misrepresented in a programme , to ‘ expose the tricks and deception used by TV to deliberately mislead people ’ . |
| 24 | I note that the Opposition 's tax plans have gone back to the drawing board ; after five years of careful preparation , they have been ditched in a period of five weeks . |
| 25 | We hope that the Government will listen reasonably to them , because they have been tabled in a reasonable frame of mind and do not make party political points . |
| 26 | The TARDIS has brought the time-travellers back to Roman times — to 64 AD to be exact — and they have been holidaying in a deserted villa near a small town . |