Example sentences of "they have been [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 2 | They 'd been queuing since 5 a.m. in the morning and as the wait continued , so did the length of the queue . |
| 3 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 4 | Duty-free allowances will be phased out eventually , but they 've been reprieved until 1999 . |
| 5 | They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days . |
| 6 | Oxford ca n't grumble they 've been winning for 15 years … its Cambridge 's turn but Oxford will be back on top next year |
| 7 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 8 | Is actually to terrify the p poor and to drive them in into a s an under and this is part of their philosophy that they 've been following since nineteen seventy nine under Mrs Thatcher . |
| 9 | The remains of the king and his father had been removed on Aug. 16 from Burg Hohenzollern at Hechingen , near Stuttgart , where they had been placed in 1952 — having been recovered from Nazi hands during the last days of the Second World War . |
| 10 | They had been increased to six a year ; five for the Apprentices , conducted by the Demonstrator and one , the General Herborising , for Members only . |
| 11 | Yet they were now learning to kiss as if they had been made for one another , she thought in panic . |
| 12 | They had been flying for 16 hours 12 minutes , had survived two bad storms and had flown over 1,800 miles of ocean . |
| 13 | After indifferent form in the early games , the first Test at Sabina Park , where four years earlier they had been annihilated in three days , was upon them . |
| 14 | Mathilde had in fact just missed being his real wife , for they had been engaged until 1836 , when , as a result of the Strasbourg episode , Mathilde had broken it off . |
| 15 | The police had been called to a youth club where they had been asked by one of the supervisors to assist in excluding trespassers before the evening 's festivities got under way . |
| 16 | At a time when potential reformers included senior officials and members of the royal family , it was to be expected that educated people outside the government would emerge from the bunker to which they had been relegated in 1848 . |
| 17 | Shortly after lunch they had been reduced to 57 for eight . |
| 18 | The ten plough lands reduced to six and by the time of Domesday they had been reduced to two and a half and Pannage for hogs reduced to wood for five hogs . |
| 19 | They were used as infantry at Gallipoli , where they landed at Suvla Bay on 20/21 August 1915 , serving with distinction where they took Chocolate Hill and Scimitar Hill with the bayonet ; by 1 November 1915 , they had been reduced to sixty . |
| 20 | On 30 March 1959 the remains of José Antonio Primo de Rivera were transported from the basilica of El Escorial , where they had been buried in 1939 , for reinterment in the Church of the Holy Cross of the Valley of the Fallen . |
| 21 | They had been stolen in 1907 causing both the British and Irish authorities much embarrassment , especially since they had vanished on the eve of a royal visit . |
| 22 | The young revolutionary , whom they had been trailing for sixteen hours a day , was proving less useful than Cowley had hoped , not leading them to any of his more dangerous colleagues . |
| 23 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 24 | These hams are from Chippenham in Wiltshire , where they have been prepared since 1781 . |
| 25 | At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week . |
| 26 | They have been seen in 1981 and 1990/91 . |
| 27 | A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years . |
| 28 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 29 | 2.5 Whilst the foregoing factors have created the need for more language teachers — teachers , moreover , who have been trained to cope with new challenges — the supply has been falling , to the point where they have been labelled in one study ‘ an endangered species ’ . |
| 30 | In England sea urchins are especially easy to collect from the Cretaceous chalk , where they have been used as one of the fossils for dating the rocks . |