Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [been] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says they 've already been allowed a judicial review over the ban on deer hunting by Somerset Council and we 've requested one in the case of Hampshire . |
| 2 | They were n't real officers , they had just been given a military rank to sit on the tribunal . ’ |
| 3 | But we did n't want to cause embarrassment — after all , they had just been awarded a ‘ Proddy ’ award for services to dogs ! |
| 4 | They had both been attending a seminar on judicial sentencing at a northern university , Berowne to open it formally with a brief speech , Dalgliesh to represent the police interest ; and they had travelled by rail in the same first class compartment . |
| 5 | Patients randomised to the tablet groups were advised to continue their pre-trial diets — unless they had already been taking a high fibre diet — in which case they were encouraged to reduce their fibre intake during the trial . |
| 6 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 7 | They had always been fed a diet of worksheets which led them along step by step — now they were thinking and making decisions for themselves . |
| 8 | It should be added here that the high clergy hardly recognized that they had actually been exercising a political religious power of a specifically sectarian or monopolistic type . |
| 9 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 10 | In these withdrawal classes they have frequently been offered an inappropriate , low-level curricular experience accompanied by low teacher expectation — just as many disruptive children have . |
| 11 | But I mean , my dad always invites his staff to have a drink at the end of the evening and I mean , most of them have already been bought a drink during the course of the evening , anyway , so they 're entitled to it . |