Example sentences of "they [verb] [been] [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The estate is boycotted by hire firms , so they 'd been forced to buy a television and washing machine new . |
| 2 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 3 | Mrs Draper says they 've been trying to get a larger home for years . |
| 4 | They had been invited to spend a week or two at the country house of Mr Josiah Barnet , a banker on Wall Street , whom Mr Carson had met in the course of business . |
| 5 | Three people with incendiary devices were found in a car … they said they had been intending to commit a serious crime and they just walk out of court . |
| 6 | They had been trying to maintain a steady pace , between hopping and running , and it had come hard . |
| 7 | A spokesman for Liat airlines said they had been told to expect a ‘ prominent personality ’ to arrive in Antigua today . |
| 8 | They have been trying to design a new force structure that would both live within the expected budget cuts and be capable of responding effectively to all imaginable crises . |
| 9 | They have been asked to sing a revised version of ‘ I 'm Too Sexy ’ written by an Australian radio station ( sample lyric ‘ I 'm not gay/but I 'm into leather … ’ ) . |
| 10 | They have been shown to express a 72 kDa type IV collagenase/gelatinase with activity against the normal liver matrix , tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 ( TIMP-1 ) , a potent inhibitor of the matrix degrading metalloproteinases and they also express interstitial collagenase , an enzyme with degradative activity against the excess interstitial collagens that characterise fibrosis . |
| 11 | Several reports show a change in these and related carbohydrate antigens in inflammatory bowel disease.3 They have been shown to have a characteristic temporal and regional expression in the human embryonic and fetal colon . |
| 12 | The point here is that institutions are useful only if they have been designed to achieve a particular purpose . |
| 13 | Even now , the categories of duty can not be regarded as being closed ; they have been held to include a general duty to enforce the law , to detect and prevent crime and to bring the offender to justice , to prevent harm to persons and property and to preserve evidence . |
| 14 | Where drug actions are known , they have been found to exert an effect on the body 's metabolic processes — that is , our inner chemical workings — inhibiting or stimulating enzyme function or having an effect on their control mechanisms . |
| 15 | Some of these characters are also present in Dryopithecus , and they have been used to support a relationship of this genus with the living great apes , but their presence in Oreopithecus , which is so highly specialized cranially , must cast some doubt on this interpretation . |