Example sentences of "they [verb] be [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Erm and people had been paying insurance i it changed then cos some of the farmers could go on their pension they 'd been paying this new scheme you see . |
2 | Some tenants to whom this happens every few months said they 'd been told that next time they 'd have to sort it out themselves . |
3 | Erm again mean time that the Americans er the Americans much more production , they 've been producing all this time anyway cos they 've got high productivity , need it for two hundred million people . |
4 | What kind of people d' you think I the first year psychology students they 've been given some sexual orientation ? |
5 | And they 've been smashing all different people 's ones . |
6 | So what they 've done is they 've picked a way of doing but they kept chopping and changing the way they 've been doing that all the time . |
7 | it just goes on , but I said to Sandra where they 've been parking all these cars , Alan over the road he comes out just after six o'clock and goes to London every day and I do n't know how he got his car out with the |
8 | Erm , but it is a body , it 's corpus as in body and and what the British National Corpus is doing , is putting together a massive amount of spoken English , erm , from all sorts of different contexts , and one of the contexts which they want spoken English from is an educational context , and so they are having to record you people , as they 've been recording some other people erm , in other educational institutions around the country and so on . |
9 | They had been built many hundreds of years ago by the people who lived on the moor . |
10 | What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know . |
11 | These 42ft vehicles were sleeping saloons and , after they had been running some little time , some ordinary coaches 34ft in length , carried on six wheels , were built ; these had a total wheel base of 22ft , or 11 ft between centres . |
12 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |
13 | The twelve select committees established by the Commons in December 1979 seem to have attracted enough criticism from the executive to suggest that they have been asking some pertinent questions , but their overall impact on policy has so far been slight . |