Example sentences of "family have [be] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our families have been friends for years . ’ |
| 2 | These are almost always the same men , the ones who own the guns and the best-trained dogs , whose families have been hunters for years , passing their knowledge and experience down through the generations until it 's almost in the blood . |
| 3 | In his autobiography he claimed that the family had been farmers at Long Eaton , Derbyshire , since the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | , Peter ( 1806–1883 ) , industrial chemist and alum manufacturer , was born 19 February 1806 in Brechin , Forfarshire , Scotland , the son of a hand-loom weaver of Brechin , and his wife , whose family had been farmers for generations . |
| 5 | The Churchward family had been squires of Stoke Gabriel from the end of the fifteenth century . |
| 6 | His family had been landowners in Wales and Shropshire . |
| 7 | But the group 's Fifties-style , sweet harmony singing is in complete contrast to their background- the brutal streets of Philadelphia where many of their friends and family have been victims of violence or bloody murder . |