Example sentences of "they have been [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , er they we , they moved out last Friday so this week when he rang me , they 'd been round past the hotel and er there 's walls being knocked down ! |
| 2 | Well he said they 'd been round with a helicopter , a plane taking photos of the houses , did I want to buy a photo of me house , twenty pound . |
| 3 | They 'd been there at the wedding , when the wine , that water had been turned into wine . |
| 4 | Could they have been in with the real Communist underground ? ’ |
| 5 | Oh , they 've been here about a few years now . |
| 6 | They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady . |
| 7 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |
| 8 | but erm yes the garden 's alright but then they 've been there in the garden all the winter as well |
| 9 | And they 've been trendy the last two or three seasons , they 've been back with the classics have n't they ? |
| 10 | They 've been back on the phone again despite Portsmouth awarding him a new two-year contract ! |
| 11 | So erm yes I think everybody 's very very disappointed as I think we probably heard with Paul Simpson because United certainly in my books , played some of the best football I 've seen them play since they 've been back in the second division in the erm first half , but really did let things slip away a little bit in the second . |
| 12 | then she said they 've been down at the this time of year |
| 13 | She 's act she er they 've been down for a for a flying visit , I think , th they like to fly and fly back because it gets th the fre used to the freedom . |
| 14 | Jack says practically that there is n't a beast because they 've not seen it and they 've been everywhere on the island . |
| 15 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 16 | Like , say they 've been out on a run and there 's a call , they say they ca n't go out because they 're not in uniform and are all sweaty ’ ( FN 26/5/87 , p. 27 ) . |
| 17 | They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics . |
| 18 | Brutally suppressed by bluecoats led by Rope Thrower , known to whites as Kit Carson , in 1863 , they had been out of the major Indian Wars because the Reservation lands given to them were so arid and dreary that even the white man did n't want to kick them off to somewhere else . |
| 19 | Kahane gave him the one for the previous month , explaining that they had been out in the desert for six weeks . |
| 20 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 21 | They told us they had been there since the outbreak of the war — approximately 34 hours previously . |
| 22 | But it was only as a last resort in 1120 that the community committed itself to , and based its case upon , the expedient of introducing into existing documents the necessary phrases , which — if they had been there in the days of Lanfranc or Anselm — would have given their case a firm basis in papal documents . |
| 23 | The British emerged from their wars against Louis XIV in a calmer flame of mind than they had been in during the disturbed and excited seventeenth century . |
| 24 | A few days before Anthony 's death they had been together at the Lancaster Road Baths watching local semi-professional boxers . |
| 25 | After all , they had been together for a couple of years and she did idolise him . |
| 26 | Disorientated by the smothering blackness surrounding them , she herself had completely lost her sense of direction — until they had been midway along the passage . |
| 27 | He looked long and searchingly at the Banks of Knamber that tonight were as they had been then before the moon rose , grey and pale as a sky dotted with tiny black clouds . |
| 28 | If you ask medical staff how often they have seen someone die , rather than if they have been around at the time , surprisingly few will say they witnessed the actual event . |
| 29 | They have been around for a very long time , as I said , dating right back to Model Book 35 in fact , which appeared in 1982 . |
| 30 | Previously they have been in with an instructor or parent . |