Example sentences of "they have [adv] been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All she could think of was that they 'd all been in on this — a kind of family Mafia , working behind the scenes to make sure that Lucenzo ended up with everything , his empire untouched . |
| 2 | Provided they 've not been out of the job all that long , I think , cos things change , do n't they ? |
| 3 | ‘ They 've now been there for more than three weeks and in my view they just ca n't find their way out again . |
| 4 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 5 | He had seen Frank 's mutilated back when they had both been down for screening , and had been deeply shocked . |
| 6 | It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years . |
| 7 | They had not been back in London long before he and Ricky left for the West Indies . |
| 8 | The composition by age of children in children 's homes had always included some adolescents but they had never been together in such large numbers before . |
| 9 | The man talked a lot about karma and said that they had obviously been together in a previous incarnation , but now their birthdates were not synchronized . |
| 10 | Since their lavish £200,000 wedding 14 months ago , they have rarely been out of the headlines — but for all the wrong reasons . |
| 11 | No they have n't been here at all . |
| 12 | I mean we 've got to see it 's a wonder they have n't been on to us cos they 've stopped the er |
| 13 | As one teacher said , ‘ I rather resent people coming in and criticising when they have n't been in on a regular basis ’ . |
| 14 | They have n't been in for quite a while . |
| 15 | Nostradamus published his Centuries in 1555 and they have never been out of print since . |