Example sentences of "they have [been] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unwary were apt to buy a ‘ pig in a poke ’ ( sack ) and find out later they 'd been sold a muted pup . |
| 2 | Only they 'd been told the wrong grave . |
| 3 | ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’ |
| 4 | they 've been called the white Marxist Public Enemy ; hypocrites ; idealists ; patronising liberal males . |
| 5 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 6 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
| 7 | If Leeds say it 's not something we can deal with here , this is the number you ring and they 've been told the wrong number that is a very bad impression and all the airports get calls constantly , as you know from B A days , so no matter what it 's about people will ring a local number , no matter whether it 's in two foot high capitals saying for enquiries ring this number |
| 8 | When the cameras had long since departed , I was left to carry the can and answer any angry participants who felt they had been given a raw deal . |
| 9 | After they had been given the coq au vin the waiter shovelled on to their plates , from a mysteriously divided dish , some wilted vegetables , and Richard recognised that tile moment had come to make his only point . |
| 10 | Their claim for an indemnity from the manufacturers failed as they had been given an adequate warning and ignored it . |
| 11 | On the other hand , two large specimens of Pinus halepensis , the Aleppo pine , had escaped because , he imagined , they had been transplanted the previous year making no shoots that summer , thus faring better than other plants with tender new growth . |
| 12 | Astute team that they were — from Kylie herself , through father Ron and Svengali Blamey to PR people Sally Atkins and the McCright brothers Ron and Rob — they were aware they had been dealt a one-off set of cards . |
| 13 | They were in a small audience chamber , and they had been excused the customary prostrations . |
| 14 | More satisfied than if they had been handed a big discount on a plate . |
| 15 | They had been told the main point — that Tildesley would make a profit for his ‘ warehousing ’ operation ( only fair , Le Roux claimed , since Tildesley took risks in buying the company , including the very real risk that Norton might never have raised the funds and he 'd stuck with FUS ) . |
| 16 | We 'd called at a house to install some concrete steps in the rear garden , and learnt that they had been burgled the previous night . |
| 17 | The dispute was still continuing in 1637 : the lessees of the disafforested lands complained that ‘ the people of the country adjacent will not pay any considerable rent for what they say have been their commons ’ , although they had been allotted a considerable share of the forest wastes in lieu of common rights . |
| 18 | Complacency about recession could destroy the Tories yet : they have been given a sharp warning by the electorate and they disregard it at their peril . |
| 19 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
| 20 | In the author 's constituency , for example , there is a company whose main competitor in Germany has been given switchgear free of charge by the local electricity board , and they have been given a twenty-year loan at no interest for generating plant . |
| 21 | Now they have been given a fresh lease of life , inviting the ( wrong ) conclusion that the need for a further shake-out is past . |
| 22 | The former ought to be more prominently displayed , the article says , so that patients are n't confused about whether they have been given a different type of medicine when collecting subsequent prescriptions . |
| 23 | Whether conscious or not of their own envy , the people in the most difficulty are those who feel they have been born the wrong sex — suspicious , or even quite clear , that their parents desperately wanted them to be the boy or girl they were not . |
| 24 | No doubt they have been promised a good party in return . |