Example sentences of "they [verb] [been] [adj] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks to Charlie boy , they 'd been able to splash a bit on the wedding and Marilyn could have the white satin and the four bridesmaids she 'd set her heart on . |
| 2 | Three weeks earlier they had flown out to Rome where they had been able to spend a few days as guests of the staff and students at the Venerable English College before setting out from St Peter 's Square on Wednesday , 30th September to cycle more than 1,700 miles across Italy , Switzerland and France , then up through England . |
| 3 | They had been able to build a rapport with him , however . |
| 4 | Giving graphic details of the 11-hour stand-off , Capt Goebel said Demeke had held the gun to his head or that of his co-pilot for most of the flight , but they had been able to build a rapport with him . |
| 5 | Men , those working full-time and those with fixed-term contracts , are more likely to have taken a temporary job because they had been unable to find a permanent job and thus can be thought of as " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 6 | They have been keen to put a distance between themselves and the negative image that still attaches to factors as ‘ lenders of last resort ’ . |
| 7 | Older women are less likely to remarry than younger women ( Ermisch , 1989 , pp. 50–1 ) and are consequently at risk of poverty in old age unless , unusually , they have been able to generate an adequate income through their own resources . |
| 8 | Third , and as a consequence of the last two factors , they have been able to develop a number of networks , more or less formal , through which they can contact one another . |
| 9 | The Italians have mae it work for them because they have been able to inject a comfortable , relaxed mood . |
| 10 | Recent Secretaries of State for Education have been known to favour educational vouchers as a way of increasing parental choice and allowing the quality of schools to be judged by market forces though they have been unable to find a workable system . |
| 11 | They admit they are baffled by their findings because they have been unable to discover a common link to all the tragic cases . |