Example sentences of "they have [adv] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They caved in ; I mean it was only a sister and a niece , and they 'd both been provided for during his lifetime and the niece got a couple of hundred thou in his will . |
| 2 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 3 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 4 | His insults had been no less cutting than the American 's , they 'd just been delivered with more urbanity . |
| 5 | They 'd already been marinaded in red wine and spices before being fried up with onions , mushrooms and ginger . |
| 6 | They 'd all been made by small independent producers from Gloucestershire , Herefordshire , Worcestershire , Shropshire and Devon . |
| 7 | They 'd origionaly been staying at the hotel Mediteran , but then moved to a villa . |
| 8 | They 've also been plastered on walls usually reserved for political propaganda . |
| 9 | no , when you get someone 's relative phoning up because they 've just been crushed under a lump of machinery , that 's is very fraught . |
| 10 | Lest the childless or single feel left out by the cosy umbrella of ‘ Parents For Safe Food ’ ' however , they 've lately been acknowledged by the incorporation of the words ‘ And Others ’ in the organisation 's title . |
| 11 | " No , I was not : I 'm not a member of the South Tipperary Brigade , but I heard the details from one of the lads there , and they 've since been confirmed by the Big Fellow himself . " |
| 12 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 13 | Oh there 's a char , there 's a lovely char here , these lovely chars er actually spend most of the time in big cold lakes and they 're a , they 're a population in they normally respond in December from about December the second to the fifteenth and they 've probably been isolated since fourteen thousand years ago , with that every population has gone slightly different to , to the next one . |
| 14 | They 've only been elected to nineteen ninety two , so they 're , they 're really , what there doing there forcing people to take some action now , because at Kathy says , she 's afraid of being left out , if there should be a , another Tory Government , so a lot of people are in the same position , they will be putting in eh , I think they just call it best of interest , not a proper application , but then if the whole lot , hundreds of us come along , which is quite likely they will , the Government will say well this proves that everybody wants to become you see , so it 's rather clever move , erm , as , as far as I 'm concerned , what 's happening with that she is eh here within the hospital , the consultant 's and the worker 's in the hospital . |
| 15 | Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so |
| 16 | they did n't even know how to put the clip onto the microphone , they were sitting holding the microphones instead of slinging it round their neck , and they 've never been told about the equipment , so they need n't |
| 17 | They 've never been reviewed in ZZAP ! , though , so unless they slipped out under assumed names I 'm afraid you 've had it . |
| 18 | Those upland fields are the hardest land of all to till , not only because of the incline , but also because they 've recently been reclaimed from the forest and the soil is still heavy with roots and stones . |
| 19 | they , they 've always been known for marvellous skin have n't they , the erm |
| 20 | Inevitably , though , some people missed the point entirely and as a result they 've often been tarred by the indiscriminate brush of ‘ gothic rock ’ . |
| 21 | Now they 've obviously been exported to this country . ’ |
| 22 | Although they look sweet and innocent enough , they 've actually been registered under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act . |
| 23 | They 've all been listening to the trainer . |
| 24 | They 've all been released without charged . |
| 25 | They 've all been waiting for more than 2 years for plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 26 | IN JULY last year I wrote about the brothers Peter and David Mason and their father Peter , who had been banged up in Liverpool jail for more than a year , though they had n't been convicted of anything . |
| 27 | On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it . |
| 28 | ‘ Middlesbrough Library came up with a decade of the Annual Register from 1790–1800 , which was wonderful , ’ she said , adding that they were so dirty it looked as if they had n't been touched since that date . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was amazing they had n't been invaded by detectives and policemen already . |