Example sentences of "they have been [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you see they 've been brainwashed to that sort of music so they 're bound to , bound to like it . |
| 2 | He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years . |
| 3 | they 've been done for many years |
| 4 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 5 | Well , we 'd like to think that er people , once they 've been introduced to these different sorts of drinks , and become a bit more aware about different sensible levels , would actually be interested in buying them in the future and trying them out themselves . |
| 6 | Most shops are prepared for your to do this with expensive boots , but do n't expect them to be exchanged if they 've been marked in any way or worn outside ! |
| 7 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 8 | They 've been going through all the lorries that 've come into Dover today with some sort of connection with the Balkans . |
| 9 | They 've been sitting during this meditation on her short useless history as a Socialist , they 've been sitting in the dark and now the moon rises , full and amber against a bar of cloud and Harriet 's face is bowed ; a drink at one hand ; and a cigarette droops glowing from the other . |
| 10 | They 've been described by some as the ugliest dogs in the world . |
| 11 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 12 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 13 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 14 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 15 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 16 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 17 | Could she come to terms with the knowledge that they had been conceived in that dreadful place ? |
| 18 | Tom 's quick testing of her tendon reflexes revealed their characteristic briskness , and both the medical professionals realised that the condition was progressing , when they had been hoping against all the evidence that it would not . |
| 19 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 20 | There they brought the coracle ashore lightly , and drew in , with reluctance and the reverence of finality , what they had been hunting with such assiduity , and so persistently hoped they would not find . |
| 21 | I could not understand why they had been banished to this dusty attic . |
| 22 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 23 | She had brought glasses and dishes from home , she said ; they had been boxed for many years too long . |
| 24 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 25 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 27 | Trade union representatives saw themselves as being accountable either to their respective trade union or to the regional TUC ( the nominating body ) , although virtually no employers ' representatives saw themselves as being accountable to regional or national CBI and many were unaware they had been nominated by this body . |
| 28 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 29 | Writing to the archbishop of York after the Council , he told him he could send only the ‘ headings ’ ( the Capitula ) of the decrees because he did not wish to circulate the fuller texts until they had been approved by those who were present . |
| 30 | But they had been chosen for some little time already . |