Example sentences of "they have [be] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been here on holiday , enjoying a lifestyle worlds apart from the one they endure in Russia . |
| 2 | They 'd been here on holiday , enjoying a lifestyle worlds apart from the one they endure in Russia . |
| 3 | How could she confess that they 'd been right about Ryan ? |
| 4 | For many this was the first time they 'd been back to Parham in thirty six years . |
| 5 | They 'd been out of action because the church 's spire was too weak to support them . |
| 6 | they and er they 've been around for centuries of course but er erm there 's all sorts of myths about them some of which are half-truths and some which un-truths . |
| 7 | They 've been around along time , however , and there are those , Gavin Friday included , who would put their meandering career down to a Dublin penchant for beer , bars and general untogetherness . |
| 8 | Cos they 've been on about people |
| 9 | In terms of erm , return to work , er , we also er have been very good , I think , in the sense that we now offer the twenty-five per cent bonus er , after pregnancy , do n't get me wrong on that , er , what happens is , people are actually recompensed , given back the money which they 've sacrificed because they 've been away from work for six months , and they get is back over the next two years . |
| 10 | Do n't worry , they 've been away from England for ten years … |
| 11 | I mean to our children , although they 've been away from Butchwana for quite a few years now it 's still home |
| 12 | They 've been twice to Scotland , but no well they went there when they come from Australia , instead of coming straight here . |
| 13 | No matter what Bob says or Harry or any other member of the Conservative group , and I accept that they 've always been consistent on it the same as the Labour group has always been consistently against the merger I accept that they 've been consistently in favour of a total merger . |
| 14 | Mhm cos they 've been there for ages have n't they Mary do n't you think ? |
| 15 | When , when they 've been down , and they 've been back to school , they 've sent me a collections of drawings and nice little notes about it , and we 've come firm friends because first they look at me , on me as the pond woman , oh , they saw me on television getting my award , and erm they thought that was rather wonderful , and so we , we , we talk and now the , the first ones have quite grown up . |
| 16 | ‘ And very careful they 've been too about period detail , Dr Cameron . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Women lose confidence being out of the labour market , men tend to lose confidence if they 've been out of work ’ , says Michaels . |
| 18 | and I thought well I 'm not gon na eat them now they 've been out of bag , so I thought oh I 'll boil them up for dog |
| 19 | They had been away from home for eight weeks , and one evening the captain showed us the presents he had bought for his wife . |
| 20 | She was sitting on the opposite side of the grate and Louise Carter thought fleetingly how proud Nora had always been of her daughter even when they had been dramatically at loggerheads and how pleased she would be if she could see her now , in her elegant black dress and silver jewellery . |
| 21 | They had been much on Rose Hilaire 's mind because the buyer from one store , Morgan 's of Leeds , had shown signs of wanting to move away to a manufacturer offering lower costs . |
| 22 | Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria . |
| 23 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 24 | They had been back at Ca' del Leone a little over two hours when Maureen phoned . |
| 25 | Mm , the visions that they had were not as reality they were only like visions they had |
| 26 | Everything they had was out of date and food was in very short supply . |
| 27 | Recently , however , they have been down to Lord Mayor Treloar College where they are helping to buy TNS 's , a battery powered device which produces small low powered electric shock — something like pins and needles — designed to ease muscle pain for people with disabilities such as spina bifida and muscular dystrophy . |
| 28 | ‘ You , Sir , ’ he wrote to Sir John Franklin , ‘ fully understand this pleasure particularly when one 's visits are directed to a fresh field abounding with novelties ; if I find my labors as much rewarded here as they have been in V. D. Land , I shall consider myself amply paid . ’ |
| 29 | Employment Training should be opened up to unemployed people over 50 , irrespective of how long they have been out of work . |
| 30 | Long-term unemployed have to attend Restart interviews if they have been out of work for six months . |