Example sentences of "they have been [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence . |
| 2 | ‘ The Ministry would have been only too happy to hand you over stuffed and pickled if they 'd been asked in the proper way . |
| 3 | They 'd been separated in the fracas which followed their parachute descent into northern France , and she feared that Jeanne had been killed in the fighting . |
| 4 | What did he care about getting rid of the Corn Laws either — which was what the whole argument had been about — since they 'd been created in the first place for the benefit of his land-owning friends ? |
| 5 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 6 | They 'd been strolling through the individual gardens within the whole for more than two hours , while Rune told her about the traditions of the gardens and how , despite attempts at imitation , they remained unique in Europe — if not the world — before they reached the area set aside for the funfair and he suggested she might like a ride on some of the attractions . |
| 7 | She was wearing biker leathers and cowboy boots which all looked as if they 'd been applied with the aid of a shoehorn . |
| 8 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 9 | must be when I looked at it they 'd been grown in the field , because it 's burnt , you can see it 's got this reddish muck where all the mud down |
| 10 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 11 | It was the Russians they 'd been listening to the whole lot . |
| 12 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 13 | They 'd been denigrated by the clinical psycho anal analysts who have followed after Freud , and used Freudian therapy , because they 're non-therapeutic . |
| 14 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 15 | Because of the arrow attack there had been uniformed patrols on the Barton estate … but they 'd been withdrawn before the chanting mob attacked |
| 16 | We probably lost them on the Beltway , and they 'd been chasing round the Virginia countryside trying to pick me up … those things only have a range of about three miles . ’ |
| 17 | They 'd been wiped off the face of the earth before they could taste her fury . |
| 18 | Lone travellers , they 'd been talking at the bar , and Lily had said how much she enjoyed dancing . |
| 19 | My father , old but gritty , glamorous in the eyes of the class of '68 , a South London wide boy with an authentic background , described his grandfather 's funeral , about 1912 , when a whole other family , wife , children , grandchildren , turned up out of the blue from somewhere further down the line where they 'd been established on the navvy 's journey north . |
| 20 | Suppose that what is wanted is large-scale mapping of the city of Leeds , it is likely that snapshots of Ordnance Survey mapping will have been preserved far more frequently , for the practical purposes of town planners etc. , but they will have been preserved not in libraries but in planning offices , and will they have been preserved after the date when they were needed there ? |
| 21 | They 've been digging for the chemicals , been tortured and crucified , again and again . |
| 22 | It was found in a garden where they 've been digging for the past six weeks . |
| 23 | During their 2 year study of the site , Thames Water have been at pains to co-operate with local action groups , but environmentalists say they 've been misled about the plans for the reservoir . |
| 24 | This week it was the first time they 've been beaten by the Irish in the league . |
| 25 | They 've been replaced by the L and the M series . |
| 26 | they 've been cooked in the microwave for twelve minutes |
| 27 | They 've been expanding for the last four years . |
| 28 | They 've been protesting against the council 's decision to stop the car park there from being women only . |
| 29 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 30 | Yet they are n't fakes , for it would appear that they 've been printed by the county 's National Mint . |